Movie · 1971
Cold Turkey
Released 19 February 1971 More from 1971 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
Reverend Brooks leads his small Iowa 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.
FR·01
How old were they?
Walter Sande
as Tobacco Executive
Ronald Reagan
as Self (archive footage)
Richard Nixon
as Self (archive footage)
Vincent Gardenia
as Mayor Wappler
Jean Stapleton
as Mrs. Wappler
Woodrow Parfrey
as Tobacco Executive
Robert Christopher
as Television Director (uncredited)
Louis Zorich
as Douglas Truesdale (uncredited)
Barbara Cason
as Letitia Hornsby
Bob Newhart
as Merwin Wren
Graham Jarvis
as Amos Bush
Paul Benedict
as Zen Buddhist
Maureen McCormick
as Talking Doll (voice) (uncredited)
FR·02
The numbers
50years between the oldest and youngest billed
64Walter Sande — oldest on the call sheet
14Maureen McCormick — youngest billed
46average age of the credited cast