Dick Shawn

Both the Americans and Russians have a two person base on the Moon. The American station is staffed by a group of half-crazed men, and the Russians are a well adjusted male-female team. Comedic chaos erupts when Peter Mattemore (Jerry Lewis) and his bride-of-convenience, Eileen (Connie Stevens), are sent to a lunar space station to monitor the weather.

It's a mad, mad, mad mad farcical return to the days of the Keystone Cop comedies, on an Ultra Panavision scale, in this star-studded extravaganza. A multitude of people have been given a clue by a dying man (Jimmy Durante) as to the location of $350,000 in stolen bank money that he has buried. They cannot come to an agreement to seek out the loot as a cooperative unit, so they set out separately in a mad race to get to it first. They do not know that the state police are on to them and are simply allowing the loot-seekers to lead them to the stolen bucks. The loot-chasers are ruthless, devious, crackpot and very often dimwitted in their frantic, hilarious race. Stanley Kramer took an intermission from socially conscious subjects to direct this riotous comedy. Photography by Ernest Laszlo.

With her client's beer sales falling flat, ad agency executive B.D. Tucker (Loretta Swit) is desperately trying to come up with new marketing ideas and senses an opportunity when three losers receive unwarranted credit for preventing a bar from being robbed. The agency quickly hires the overnight heroes for its new campaign -- which turns out to be as successful as it is tasteless. Dick Shawn's send-up of talk-show host Phil Donahue is a must-see.

Orphaned, 15-year-old Molly Stewart (Donna Wilkes) is a sweet looking honor student at a private girl's school by day, but by night she works the streets of Hollywood as a prostitute named Angel. When a deranged serial killer who preys on hookers starts murdering her friends from the boulevard, Angel takes off on a personal quest for vengeance.