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    Gas-s-s-s! (1970)

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    A nerve gas leak in Alaska kills everyone over the age of 25 in this hopelessly surreal comedy from cult director Roger Corman.

    The expected Utopia doesn’t materialise, however, in a freewheeling romp that features Hell’s Angels, Che Guevara, Edgar Allan Poe and Martin Luther King.

    Odd gangs have organised, like the fascistic warmongers who behave and dress like a football team (pictured below), or the automobile scavengers who “shoot” victims by aiming guns and shouting the names of cowboy-movie actors (Best line in this scene: “Maybe I could’ve just winged him with a Dale Robertson or a Clint Eastwood.”)

    Talia Shire, Ben Vereen and Cindy Williams all make their first significant film appearances in this time-capsule oddity, but Corman takes aim at too many hip targets and doesn’t hit any of them successfully.

    After the film was heavily cut by his usual distributors, AIP, Corman set up his own production company, New World.

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    Coel
    Robert Corff
    Cilla
    Elaine Giftos
    Hooper
    Bud Cort
    Coralie
    Talia Shire
    Carlos
    Ben Vereen
    Marissa
    Cindy Williams
    Jason
    Alex Wilson
    Marshall McLuhan
    Lou Procopio
    Quant
    Phil Borneo
    Ginny
    Jackie Farley
    FM Radio
    Country Joe McDonald
    Billy the Kid
    George Armitage
    Demeter
    Pat Patterson
    Dr Drake
    Alan Braunstein
    Country Joe and the Fish
    Themselves

    Director
    Roger Corman

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