Loose Shoes
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Preview trailers for movies not coming to a theater near you are collected in this satiric comedy. Loose Shoes is a sketch comedy which takes the form of a series of "coming attractions" for movies that don't happen to exist. The oddball trailers include the Billy Jack parody Billy Jerk Goes to Oz, the family comedy The Shaggy Studio Executive, a ribald Ma and Pa Kettle take-off, a biker film satire called Skateboarders From Hell, a vintage musical short entitled Darktown After Dark, a politically incorrect Charlie Chaplin two-reeler, a Play It Again, Sam goof in which "Duddy Allen" seeks romantic advice from a guy he thinks is the ghost of Clark Gable, and much more. Loose Shoes includes pre-fame performances from Bill Murray, Howard Hesseman, Ed Lauter, and Harry Shearer, while cult favorites Susan Tyrrell, Sid Haig, Jaye P. Morgan, Kinky Friedman, and Van Dyke Parks also appear in the cast. ~ Mark Deming, RoviCast
- Lewis Arquette - Warden
- Danny Dayton - Bartender
- Murphy Dunne - Tough G.I.
- Howard Hesseman - Ernie Piles
- Steve Landesberg - Duddy Allen
Credit
Michael McCloskey - Art Director, Cecilia Gruessing - Choreography, Ira Miller - Director, Alan Balsam - Editor, Murphy Dunne - Composer (Music Score), Bill Cosby - Producer, Joel Chemoff - Producer, Royce D. Applegate - Screenwriter, Ira Miller - Screenwriter| Loose Screws (1985 Film), Loose Rope (2008 Film) | |
| Loose Women (1996 Film), Loose in London (1953 Film) |
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| Directed by | Ira Miller |
| Produced by | Joel Chernoff |
| Written by | Royce D. Applegate Ira Miller Dan Praiser Charley Smith |
| Starring | Royce D. Applegate Bill Murray Lewis Arquette |
| Music by | Murphy Dunne |
| Cinematography | Jack Beckett |
| Editing by | Alan Balsam |
| Distributed by | National American Films |
| Release date(s) | August 1980 |
| Running time | 84 mins |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
Loose Shoes (also known as Coming Attractions and Quackers) is a 1980 comedy film directed by Ira Miller and featuring Bill Murray. The film is presented as a series of movie trailers with titles such as The Howard Huge Story, Skate-boarders from Hell and The Invasion of the Penis Snatchers. The film was shot around 1977 and only released years later in 1980, probably to capitalize on Bill Murray's success as a box office film star.
The title Loose Shoes is taken from a song in the skit "Darktown After Dark" which satirizes an infamous racist remark made in 1976 by the then U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz by turning it into a 1940s-style big-band number.
External links
- Loose Shoes at the Internet Movie Database
- Loose Shoes at AllRovi
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