The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977 Dave’s Pick)

The eleventh episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1977 features our producer David Rosen’s personal pick, comedy anthology The Kentucky Fried Movie. Directed by John Landis and written by the team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker, The Kentucky Fried Movie was a pioneering film of the spoof genre that helped launch the careers of its writers and director.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Lawrence Van Gelder in the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1977/08/11/archives/kentucky-fried-a-yolky-film.html), Variety (https://variety.com/1976/film/reviews/the-kentucky-fried-movie-1200423875/), and Polly Warfield in the Los Angeles Free Press (https://voices.revealdigital.org/?a=d&d=BGJFHJH19770812.1.12&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN---------------1).

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