The Hollywood Knights
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| Directed by | Floyd Mutrux |
| Produced by | William Tennant Richard Lederer |
| Written by | Floyd Mutrux Richard Lederer William Tennant |
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Robert Wuhl Tony Danza Fran Drescher Michelle Pfeiffer Stuart Pankin Debra Feuer |
| Cinematography | William A. Fraker |
| Edited by | Stanford C. Allen Scott Conrad Danford B. Greene (sup) |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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91 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2.5 million (est.) |
| Box office | $10,000,000 (domestic) |
The Hollywood Knights is an 1980 American comedy film written and directed by Floyd Mutrux depicting the crass and mischievous antics and practical jokes of the remaining members of a 1950s-era car club turned social fraternity in and around Beverly Hills and Hollywood in 1965. The cast, led by Robert Wuhl as the fraternity's charismatic leader Newbomb Turk, features Tony Danza and Michelle Pfeiffer as high school sweethearts as well as Fran Drescher and Stuart Pankin in supporting roles.
It is also the inaugural film credit of PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, a British studio that aimed to compete with Hollywood.
On Halloween night in 1965, a group of high school pranksters – the Hollywood Knights – are enraged by the Beverly Hills Residents' Association's success in arranging for the shutdown and demolition of their favorite hangout, 'Tubby's Drive-In' diner, which is to be replaced by an office building. In response, they launch a sustained and comically vengeful campaign against the principals of the association and two bumbling local police officers charged with keeping the "The Knights" in check during their last night in Beverly Hills. The ensuing antics include, among other things, a sexual encounter involving premature ejaculation, a punch bowl being 'spiked' with urine, an initiation ceremony involving four pledges who are left in Watts wearing nothing but the car tires they are left to carry, a cheerleader who forgets to put on her underwear before performing at a pep rally, several impromptu drag races, and the lead character of Newbomb Turk (Robert Wuhl) wearing a majordomo outfit and singing a version of 'Volare' accompanied by the sounds of flatulence. 'Mooning' also plays a prominent role in the film: one of the advertising slogans exploited the recent Apollo space program by touting that The Hollywood Knights was the first movie 'to moon a man on the land'. During a mooning incident in the film's final scene, the character Dudley Laywicker, becomes absolutely 'all eyes', transfixed by the bare buttocks. So much so, that he takes his glasses off for a better look.
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