Trivia / Cold Turkey

• Acting for Two: Bob & Ray play multiple characters each.
• All-Star Cast: Besides Dick Van Dyke and Bob Newhart, the movie features a number of other well-known (or soon-to-be-well-known) comedic actors, including Edward Everett Horton, Bob & Ray, Jean Stapleton (All in the Family), Tom Poston (Newhart), Vincent Gardenia (Moonstruck), Barnard Hughes (Blossom), Graham Jarvis (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman), Barbara Cason (It's Garry Shandling's Show), and Paul Benedict (The Jeffersons).
  • Maureen McCormick—yep, Marcia Brady herself—provides The Voice of a novelty talking doll sold in town. ("I love you! Smoking gives you cancer!")
• California Doubling: Averted. The film was shot in and around the real-life Iowa town of Greenfield.
  • There's even some Iowa Doubling, in fact: The opening scene, which is ostensibly set at Hiram Grayson's residence in the South, was actually filmed at the governor's mansion in Des Moines.
• Playing Against Type: Bob Newhart, normally a mild-mannered Only Sane Man, plays a Corrupt Corporate Executive here, while upstanding role model for child audiences Dick Van Dyke is a Sinister Minister Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist.
• The Shelf of Movie Languishment: The film was completed in 1969 but sat unreleased for two years.

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