Rotten
Skidoo patronises young and old alike, which is pretty much like cutting off both legs before a track meet.
Variety Staff, Variety
Overview
Ex-gangster Tony Banks is called out of retirement by mob kingpin God to carry out a hit on fellow mobster "Blue Chips" Packard. When Banks demurs, God kidnaps his daughter Darlene on his luxury yacht.
Director and cast
- Otto Preminger Director
- Jackie Gleason as Tough Tony Banks
- Carol Channing as Flo Banks
- Frankie Avalon as Angie
- Fred Clark as Tower Guard
- Michael Constantine as Leech
- Frank Gorshin as The Man
- Peter Lawford as The Senator
- Burgess Meredith as The Warden
- George Raft as Captain Garbaldo
- Cesar Romero as Hechy
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
36%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Preminger seems unable to invest his film with any lightness or spontaneity.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
The movie, which has the form of comedy, is 98 minutes of disconnected story-conference ideas.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
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