Cold Turkey

Cold Turkey

99 mins | Comedy | Feb. 19, 1971

Reverend Brooks leads the town in a contest to stop smoking for a month, But some tobacco executives don't want them to win, and try everything they can to make them smoke. If townspeople don't go nuts, from wanting a cigarette, or kill each other from irritation and frustration, they will win a huge prize.

Cold Turkey

99 mins | Comedy | Feb. 19, 1971

Cold Turkey
Reverend Brooks leads the town in a contest to stop smoking for a month, But some tobacco executives don't want them to win, and try everything they can to make them smoke. If townspeople don't go nuts, from wanting a cigarette, or kill each other from irritation and frustration, they will win a huge prize.
IMDb rating 6.6
Producers Tandem Productions, DFI
Original title Cold Turkey
Directors Norman Lear
Writers Margaret Rau, Neil Rau, William Price Fox, Norman Lear

Cast

Dick Van Dyke

as Rev. Clayton Brooks

Pippa Scott

as Natalie Brooks

Tom Poston

as Mr. Stopworth

Edward Everett Horton

as Hiram C. Grayson

Bob Elliott

as Hugh Upson / David Chetley / Sandy Van Andy

Vincent Gardenia

as Mayor Wappler

Barnard Hughes

as Dr. Proctor

Graham Jarvis

as Amos Bush

Jean Stapleton

as Mrs. Wappler

Paul Benedict

as Zen Buddhist

Judith Lowry

as Odie Turman

Hubert H. Humphrey

as Self (archive footage) / Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Pat Nixon

as Self (archive footage)

Richard Nixon

as Self (archive footage)

Ronald Reagan

as Self (archive footage)

Spiro Agnew

as Self (archive footage)

Barbara Cason

as Letitia Hornsby

Sudie Bond

as Cissy

Helen Page Camp

as Mrs. Watson

Simon Scott

as Mr. Kandiss

Raymond Kark

as Homer Watson

Peggy Rea

as Mrs. Proctor

Woodrow Parfrey

as Tobacco Executive

George Mann

as Bishop Manley

Charles Pinney

as Col. Galloway

Gloria LeRoy

as The Hooker

Eric Boles

as Dennis

Jack Grimes

as TV Stage Manager

Walter Sande

as Tobacco Executive

Harvey Jason

as Hypnotist

Robert Christopher

as Television Director (uncredited)

Murray Cline

as Milkman (uncredited)

Michael Cornelison

as Protester (uncredited)

Stan Gottlieb

as Man on Operating Table (uncredited)

Ray Goulding

as Walter Chronic / Paul Hardly / Arthur Lordly (uncredited)

Lynn Guthrie

as Townsman (uncredited)

Ted Knight

as Mr. Slick (uncredited)

Norman Lear

as Crying Man (uncredited)

Maureen McCormick

as Talking Doll (voice) (uncredited)

Burt Prelutsky

as Tourist Asking for Directions (uncredited)

Mrs. Burt Prelutsky

as Tourist's Wife (uncredited)

Charles White

as Senator Sildge (uncredited)

Jerry Whittington

as Wilber Scott (uncredited)

Glenn Yarbrough

as Working Stiff (uncredited)

Louis Zorich

as Douglas Truesdale (uncredited)