---
title: 'Skidoo (1968)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Otto Preminger'
released: '1968-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 97
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/skidoo-1968'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063612/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Skidoo (1968)

1968 · 97 min · Comedy · United States


## Synopsis

Skidoo is a 1968 American comedy film directed by Otto Preminger, starring Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing, Frankie Avalon, Fred Clark, Michael Constantine, Frank Gorshin, John Phillip Law, Peter Lawford, Burgess Meredith, George Raft, Cesar Romero, Mickey Rooney, and Groucho Marx playing a top mobster named "God". It was written by Doran William Cannon and released by Paramount Pictures on December 19, 1968. The screenplay satirizes late-1960s counterculture lifestyle and its creature comforts, technology, anti-technology, hippies, free love and then-topical use of the drug LSD.

## Credits

- **Original Music Composer:** [Harry Nilsson](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-nilsson)
- **Director:** [Otto Preminger](https://cinepixo.com/people/otto-preminger)
- **Producer:** [Otto Preminger](https://cinepixo.com/people/otto-preminger)
- **Screenplay:** [Doran William Cannon](https://cinepixo.com/people/doran-william-cannon)
- **Director of Photography:** [Leon Shamroy](https://cinepixo.com/people/leon-shamroy)

## Cast

- [Austin Pendleton](https://cinepixo.com/people/austin-pendleton)
- [Carol Channing](https://cinepixo.com/people/carol-channing)
- [Harry Nilsson](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-nilsson)
- [Michael Constantine](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-constantine)
- [Peter Lawford](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-lawford)
- [Jackie Gleason](https://cinepixo.com/people/jackie-gleason)
- [Fred Clark](https://cinepixo.com/people/fred-clark)
- [Frank Gorshin](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-gorshin)
- [Slim Pickens](https://cinepixo.com/people/slim-pickens)
- [Donyale Luna](https://cinepixo.com/people/donyale-luna)
- [Groucho Marx](https://cinepixo.com/people/groucho-marx)
- [Arnold Stang](https://cinepixo.com/people/arnold-stang)
- [John Phillip Law](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-phillip-law)
- [George Cisar](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-cisar)
- [Cesar Romero](https://cinepixo.com/people/cesar-romero)

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