Totally demented black comedy from the Vietnam era about a CIA-created pop music band sent behind the Iron Curtain to rescue a wide array of American cultural icons, including comedian Richard Pryor; actresses Butterfly McQueen (Gone WIth The Wind), Dorothy Lamour and Maureen O'Sullivan; boxer Joe Louis; Johnny "Tarzan" Weissmuller; Jay "Tonto" Silverheels; Harland "Colonel" Sanders; Patty Andrews (of "The Andrews Sisters"); bandleaders Xavier Cugat and Guy Lombardo; "Dead End" kids Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall; ventriloquist Edgar Bergen; and "the world's oldest teenager," Dick Clark. Music score by songwriting/producing team Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller, whose songs include "Hound Dog," "Jailhouse Rock," "Yakkity Yak," "Spanish Harlem," "On Broadway" and "Stand by Me.
Price: 18.49
