Paramount Pictures
Directed by Otto Preminger
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Olive Films)
Ex-mobster Jackie Gleason is arrested and ordered to perform a hit in prison. Meanwhile his teenager daughter invites her hippie boyfriend, and all of his friends, to stay at their house. When she discovers her father is missing, she enlists the help of young gangster Frankie Avalon to find him. They end up on the yacht of Groucho Marx, the mob leader who goes by the moniker "God", as do Gleason who escapes from prison by hot air balloon and all of her hippie friends. A silly mainstream spoof of the hippie movement, complete with Gleason taking an acid trip in prison and Groucho ending up a pot-smoking guru. Catchy soundtrack by Nilsson including the nonsense title song advocating that we all just be happy and get along.
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