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    Phynx, The (1970)

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    A wonderfully bizarre cinematic nugget of the psychedelic era. The Phynx is the ultimate pre-fab pop group, created by a supercomputer called M.O.T.H.A. and catapulted to fame by the CIA-like SSA (Super Secret Agency), aided by some of Lieber-Stoller’s less stellar tunes.

    The plan is for the computer-created group to go behind the Iron Curtain to Albania and rescue a vast collection of American cultural heroes who have been kidnapped by those darn Commies including Ed Sullivan, Joe Louis, Ruby Keeler, Dorothy Lamour, Trini Lopez, George Jessel, the Bowery Boys’ Leo Gorcey, Busby Berkeley, Guy Lombardo, Colonel Sanders (!), Jay (Tonto) Silverheels, Rudy Vallee, Johnny Weissmuller and Xavier Cugat . . .

    The four actors playing the band members are unmemorable and, indeed, remain unknown to this day, and the celebrity cast – though impressive in sheer volume – gets little to do.

    The Phynx
    Michael A. Miller
    Ray Chippeway
    Dennis Larden
    Lonny Stevens
    Corrigan
    Lou Antonio
    Bogey
    Mike Kellin
    Colonel Rostinov
    Michael Ansara
    Markevitch
    George Tobias
    Ruby
    Joan Blondell
    Philbaby
    Larry Hankin
    Wee Johnny Wilson
    Ted Eccles
    Ultra Violet
    Ultra Violet
    Father O’Hoolihan
    Pat McCormick
    Yakov
    Joseph Gazal
    Number One
    Bob Williams
    Bogey’s Secretary
    Barbara
    The Box (voice)
    Rich Little
    The London Belly
    Sue Bernard
    The Copenhagen Belly
    Sherry Miles
    The Italian Belly
    Ann Morell
    The Lone Ranger
    John Hart
    Tonto
    Jay Silverheels
    Oddjob 
    Harold Sakata
    Foxy
    Martha Raye
    Number 1 Fan (Muriel Oxenberg Murphy)
    Sally Struthers
    Themselves
    Patty Andrews
    Rona Barrett
    Edgar Bergen
    Busby Berkeley
    James Brown
    Dick Clark
    Xavier Cugat
    Cass Daley
    Andy Devine
    Fritz Feld
    Leo Gorcey
    Huntz Hall
    Louis Hayward
    George Jessel
    Ruby Keeler
    Patsy Kelly
    Dorothy Lamour
    Guy Lombardo
    Joe Louis
    Trini López
    Marilyn Maxwell
    Butterfly McQueen
    Pat O’Brien
    Maureen O’Sullivan
    Richard Pryor
    Colonel Sanders
    Ed Sullivan
    Rudy Vallee
    Clint Walker
    Johnny Weissmuller

    Director
    Lee H Katzin

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