It Came from Hollywood is a 1982 Americancomedydocumentary film compiling clips from variousB movies. Written byDana Olsen and directed byMalcolm Leo andAndrew Solt,[5] the film features wraparound segments and narration by several famouscomedians, includingDan Aykroyd,John Candy,Gilda Radner, andCheech and Chong. Sections ofIt Came from Hollywood focus ongorilla pictures, anti-marijuana films and the works ofEd Wood.[6]
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Directed by | Malcolm Leo Andrew Solt[1] |
Written by | Dana Olsen |
Produced by | Jeff Stein Susan Strausberg |
Starring | Dan Aykroyd John Candy Cheech Marin Tommy Chong Gilda Radner |
Cinematography | Fred J. Koenekamp |
Edited by | Janice Hampton Sarah Legon Bert Lovitt |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 80 minutes[2] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $5 million[3] |
Box office | $2.6 million[4] |
Cast
edit- Dan Aykroyd as himself/col. Dan Diamond (segmentAliens)/The High School Patrol (segmentTroubled Teenagers)/the Scientist (segmentThe Brains)
- John Candy as himself/the producer/the projectionist
- Cheech and Chong as themselves
- Gilda Radner as herself/Judy Miller the young girl
The character of the col. Dan Diamond is a reference to the Motor Sergeant Frank Tree from the film1941, also starring Aykroyd, while the character of the young girl by Gilda is a reference to the most know Judy Miller character of her SNL sketches.
Dan Aykroyd in this film presents a segment called "Troubled Teens" playing a detective dressed in a trench-coat, with the voice-over intro to this states in true 'Dragnet' style: "From the Official Files of the Californian Department of Education". About five years later Aykroyd starred in the official movie parody of the series.
List of films
edit- Sunny Side Up (1929)
- Maniac (1934)
- Wonder Bar (1934)
- The Lost City (1935)
- Reefer Madness (1936)
- Marihuana (1936)
- Perils of Nyoka (1942)
- Isle of Forgotten Sins (1943)
- Musical Movieland (1944)[7]
- The Monster and the Ape (1945)
- The White Gorilla (1945)
- Blonde Savage (1947)
- Street Corner (1948)
- Daughter of the Jungle (1949)
- The Flying Saucer (1950)
- The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
- Zombies of the Stratosphere (1952)
- Glen or Glenda (1953)
- Robot Monster (1953)
- The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
- The War of the Worlds (1953)
- Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
- Bride of the Monster (1955)
- The Violent Years (1956)
- Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)
- Fire Maidens from Outer Space (1956)
- Runaway Daughters (1956)
- Shake, Rattle & Rock! (1956)
- Don't Knock the Rock (1956)
- Rock Baby: Rock It (1957)[8]
- The Brain from Planet Arous (1957)
- The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
- Dragstrip Girl (1957)
- The Deadly Mantis (1957)
- The Giant Claw (1957)
- Beginning of the End (1957)
- The Cyclops (1957)
- From Hell It Came (1957)
- The Amazing Colossal Man (1957)
- I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957)
- Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957)
- Teenage Monster (1958)
- The Bride and the Beast (1958)
- The Cool and the Crazy (1958)
- Attack of the Puppet People (1958)
- Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)
- High School Confidential! (1958)
- High School Hellcats (1958)
- The Space Children (1958)
- Fiend Without a Face (1958)
- The Fly (1958)
- Curse of the Faceless Man (1958)
- The Party Crashers (1958)
- The Blob (1958)
- I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958)
- Frankenstein's Daughter (1958)
- Monster from Green Hell (1958)
- The Trollenberg Terror (1958)
- Missile to the Moon (1958)
- The Hideous Sun Demon (1959)
- Battle in Outer Space (1959)
- House on Haunted Hill (1959)
- Prince of Space (1959)
- Teenagers from Outer Space (1959)
- The Killer Shrews (1959)
- The Tingler (1959)
- First Man Into Space (1959)
- The Loves of Hercules (1960)
- The Hypnotic Eye (1960)
- Invasion of the Neptune Men (1961)
- Reptilicus (1961)
- Rocket Attack U.S.A. (1961)
- Married Too Young (1962)
- The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)
- Matango (1963)
- Slime People (1963)
- Evil Brain from Outer Space (1964)
- The Creeping Terror (1964)
- Atomic Rulers (1964)
- The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies (1964)
- The Horror of Party Beach (1964)
- Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster (1965)
- Bat Men of Africa (1966)
- Mars Needs Women (1967)
- The Weird World of LSD (1967)[9]
- The X from Outer Space (1967)
- Yongary, Monster from the Deep (1967)
- Son of Godzilla (1967)
- Octaman (1971)
- The Thing with Two Heads (1972)
- Black Belt Jones (1974)
- Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)
- A*P*E (1976)
- The Incredible Melting Man (1977)
- Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! (1978)
See also
editReferences
edit- ^MUBI
- ^Amazon.com: It Came From Hollywood (VHS)
- ^McCarthy, Todd (October 29, 1982). "Film Reviews: It Came From Hollywood".Daily Variety. p. 3.
- ^"It Came from Hollywood (1982)".Box Office Mojo. RetrievedMay 2, 2016.
- ^TCM.com
- ^It Came from Hollywood Movie Review (1982)|Roger Ebert.com
- ^"Musical Movieland".
- ^"Rock Baby-Rock It".
- ^"The Weird World of LSD (1967)". 1967.