--- title: 'Cold Turkey (1971)' type: 'film' director: 'Norman Lear' released: '1971-01-01' runtime_minutes: 99 genres: - 'Comedy' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/cold-turkey-1971' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066927/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Cold Turkey (1971) 1971 · 99 min · Comedy · United States ## Synopsis Cold Turkey is a 1971 satirical black comedy film starring Dick Van Dyke and a long list of comedic actors. The film was written for the screen, produced, and directed by Norman Lear, marking his directorial debut and his only directorial feature film credit. Cold Turkey was based on the unpublished novel I'm Giving Them Up for Good by Margaret and Neil Rau. Randy Newman composed and performed original music for the film. ## Credits - **Director:** [Norman Lear](https://cinepixo.com/people/norman-lear) - **Producer:** [Norman Lear](https://cinepixo.com/people/norman-lear) - **Original Music Composer:** [Randy Newman](https://cinepixo.com/people/randy-newman) - **Director of Photography:** [Charles F. Wheeler](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-f-wheeler) ## Cast - [Bob Elliott](https://cinepixo.com/people/bob-elliott) - [Edward Everett Horton](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-everett-horton) - [Tom Poston](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-poston) - [Ray Goulding](https://cinepixo.com/people/ray-goulding) - [Pippa Scott](https://cinepixo.com/people/pippa-scott) - [M. Emmet Walsh](https://cinepixo.com/people/m-emmet-walsh) - [Jean Stapleton](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-stapleton) - [Barnard Hughes](https://cinepixo.com/people/barnard-hughes) - [Dick Van Dyke](https://cinepixo.com/people/dick-van-dyke) - [Judith Lowry](https://cinepixo.com/people/judith-lowry) - [Paul Benedict](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-benedict) - [Bob Newhart](https://cinepixo.com/people/bob-newhart) - [Vincent Gardenia](https://cinepixo.com/people/vincent-gardenia) - [Graham Jarvis](https://cinepixo.com/people/graham-jarvis) - [Walter Sande](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-sande) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/cold-turkey-1971 Film facts: Wikidata (Q650404); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.