Skidoo (1968)

Name: Skidoo (1968)
Duration: 1 h 38 min

1hr 38m

2.8/5 (718)

1hr 38m
2.8/5 (718)

A retired gangster must return to work when mob boss God kidnaps his daughter Darlene to force him into killing rival Blue Chips Packard. More Details »

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Director:

Otto Preminger

Producer:

Otto Preminger

Writer:

Doran William Cannon

Runtime:

1hr 38m

Synopsis

A retired gangster must return to work when mob boss God kidnaps his daughter Darlene to force him into killing rival Blue Chips Packard.

Cast

Jackie Gleason
Carol Channing
Frankie Avalon
Fred Clark
Michael Constantine
Frank Gorshin
John Phillip Law
Peter Lawford
Burgess Meredith
George Raft

Letterboxd User Reviews

2.8

RATINGS 9 FANS

2.8

Otto's Erotic Acid-fixation

94 Likes

pd187

Jul 8, 2024

Preminger somehow managed to do the impossible (turn the Batman TV series straight)

54 Likes

Liz

Nov 15, 2014

Skidon't.

54 Likes

Bill Ryan
Jun 23, 2020

Tripping towards God. Can one loves a comedy that is almost devoid of actual laughs? That's the question people have face while dealing with Skidoo for some 50+ years. It is wonderfully imagined, formally always very interesting, full of amusing touches while at same the…

51 Likes

Filipe Furtado

Mar 28, 2025

One of the most reliably cringe subgenres of the late 60s is Old Hollywood Types Trying to Get Hip with That Hippie Thing. Amplified in the case of Skidoo by the presence of a full roster of familiar faces from Motion Pictures of days long gone by and a director at the helm…

40 Likes

D Rock

Mar 16, 2026

Rough going for the first 30 mins or so… I think I was supposed to laugh? Regardless, these films by old Hollywood vets from the early days of LSD breaking into public consciousness are always very interesting. Preminger is someone who had been making films for nearly three…

39 Likes

jeli.ben
Sep 20, 2017

Aged like fine wine.

39 Likes

Will Sloan

Dec 5, 2021

Watched this high out of my mind as God intended and was absolutely riveted by the end credits.

38 Likes

Jenna Ipcar

Nov 19, 2021

I figured my opinion of this would plummet on a second viewing and it'd seem like a mere psychedelic trainwreck mostly worth only gawking at (ala candy, myra breckinridge, et al). Quite the opposite, to my surprise if you too have wondered what it'd be like if the…

37 Likes

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