The Kentucky Fried Movie
| The Kentucky Fried Movie | |
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| Directed by | John Landis |
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| Produced by | Robert K. Weiss |
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| Edited by | George Folsey Jr. |
| Music by | Igo Kantor |
Production company | Kentucky Fried Theater |
| Distributed by | United Film Distribution Company |
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Running time | 83 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $650,000 |
| Box office | $7.1 million |
The Kentucky Fried Movie is a 1977 American independent black comedy sketch film, produced by Kim Jorgensen, Larry Kostroff, and Robert K. Weiss, and directed by John Landis. Among the numerous star cameos are George Lazenby, Bill Bixby, Henry Gibson, Barry Dennen, Donald Sutherland, Tony Dow, Stephen Bishop, and the voice of Shadoe Stevens. According to writer David Zucker on the DVD commentary track, David Letterman auditioned for the role of the newscaster, but was not selected. The film also features many former members of The Groundlings and The Second City. The "feature presentation" portion of the film stars Evan C. Kim and hapkido grand master Bong Soo Han. The Kentucky Fried Movie launched the careers of the Zucker brothers, Abrahams and Landis.
Landis was recommended to direct National Lampoon's Animal House in 1978 based on his work with The Kentucky Fried Movie.
The film's writers were the team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker, who subsequently wrote and directed Airplane!, Top Secret! and the Police Squad! television series and its film spin-offs, The Naked Gun films.