Main Cast: Chevy Chase, Carrie Fisher, Billy Barty, Eve Arden, Joseph Maher
Release Year: 1981
Country: US
Run Time: 97 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG
Plot
In this comedy, a hotel becomes a chaotic place during the 1938 filming of The Wizard of Oz, when it is inundated with groups of midgets, secret agents, and Nazi and Japanese spies. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide
Robert Donner - Assassin; Mako - Nakamuri; Cork Hubbert - Rollo Sweet; Pat McCormick - Tiny; Adam Arkin - Henry Hudson; Leonard Barr - Pops; Jim Boeke - Whittler; Ruth Brown - Cleaning Lady; Twink Caplan - Cigarette Girl; Michael Lee Gogin - Fitzgerald; Anthony Gordon - Inspector; David Haney - Dispatcher; Peter Isacksen - Homer; Freeman King - Otis; Jack Kruschen - Louie; Patty Maloney - Rosie; Louisa Moritz - Operator; Bennett Ohta - Akido; Bob Porter - Ventriloquist; Zelda Rubinstein - Iris; Richard Stahl - Lester Hudson; John F. Goff - Bartender; Peter W. Wooley - Studio Lot Director; Gary Friedkin - Wedgie; Art Hern - Studio Guard; Charlie Messenger - Hitler's Aide; Bill Lytle - Clerk; Ted Lehmann - Adolf Hitler
Credit
Michael Butler - Costume Designer, Robert J. Smawley - First Assistant Director, Steve Rash - Director, David Blewitt - Editor, Joe Renzetti - Composer (Music Score), Joel Schiller - Production Designer, Peter W. Wooley - Production Designer, Frank Stanley - Cinematographer, Fred Bauer - Producer, Willie D. Burton - Sound/Sound Designer, Jesse Wayne - Stunts, Pat McCormick - Screenwriter, Fred Bauer - Screenwriter, Harry Hurwitz - Screenwriter, Pat Bradley - Screenwriter, Martin Smith - Screenwriter, James Seidelman - Additional Editing
The movie was nominated for Razzie Awards for Worst Musical Score by Joe Renzetti, and Worst Supporting Actor (Billy Barty). It received extremely negative reviews, many of which condemned the various sight gags involving the little people.
The film marked the first acting role of dwarf actor Phil Fondacaro, as well as his brother Sal.
