fiction.wikisort.org - Movie

The Gong Show Movie is a 1980 American slapstick film starring, co-written and directed by Chuck Barris, the host and creator of the popular game show with the same name.[2]

The Gong Show Movie
Directed by	Chuck Barris
Written by	Chuck Barris Robert Downey
Based on	The Gong Show by Chris Bearde
Produced by	Budd Granoff
Starring	Chuck Barris Robin Altman James B. Douglas Mabel King Jaye P. Morgan Rip Taylor
Cinematography	Richard C. Glouner
Edited by	Jacqueline Cambas James Mitchell Sam Vitale
Music by	Milton DeLugg
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	May 23, 1980 (1980-05-23)
Running time	89 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$6,621,520[1]

Plot

The film shows a fictional week in the life of Chuck Barris as the host and creator of The Gong Show, through a series of outrageous competitors, stressful situations, a nervous breakdown (which compels him to run away and hide in the Moroccan desert) and other comic hijinks in his life and work on the TV show. Among the highlights included a group of men dressed as a Roman Catholic priest and three nuns lip-synching Tom Lehrer's song "The Vatican Rag", a man blowing out a candle with flatulence, and the uncensored version of Jaye P. Morgan's infamous breast-baring incident.

Reception

The film premiered in May 1980 alongside The Empire Strikes Back and The Shining, beating the latter at the box office in its opening weekend but losing to the former. The film received uniformly negative reviews and was withdrawn from theaters shortly after its release.

Among the many bad reviews at the time was one from George Burns, who, after seeing the movie, went on the record and said, "For the first time in 65 years, I wanted to get out of show business."[3]

Home media

The movie was occasionally seen on a few cable movie channels during the 1980s but had never been available on home video in any format until a Blu-ray release from Shout! Factory[4] on March 29, 2016.

References

External links

• The Gong Show Movie at IMDb
• The Gong Show Movie at the TCM Movie Database
• The Gong Show Movie at Rotten Tomatoes

---