The Phynx (1970)

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Country: USA
Genres: Comedy, Music
Release: 1970-05-06
Director: Lee H. Katzin (1935–2002)
Writers: Bob Booker , George Foster , Stan Cornyn
Language: English
Stars: Michael A. Miller , Ray Chippeway , Dennis Larden , Lonny Stevens , Lou Antonio , Mike Kellin , Michael Ansara , George Tobias , Joan Blondell , Larry Hankin
Runtime: 81 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: The Phynx (United States of America) , The Phynx (United Kingdom) , The Phynx , Pasión de juventud (Mexico)
Plot: An athlete, a campus militant, a black model, and an American Indian are picked by a computer (shaped like a woman) to form a rock group called the Phynx and go on tour in Albania where American show biz people have been kidnapped by Communists. Some of the stars that the phony band rescues: Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan (the most famous movie Tarzan and Jane), Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall (the Bowery Boys), Ed Sullivan, James Brown, Colonel Sanders, Guy Lombardo, Andy Devine, Ruby Keeler, Edgar Bergen, Butterfly McQueen, Jay Silverheels (Tonto), Rudy Vallee, Xavier Cugat, Trini Lopez, Dick Clark, Richard Pryor, Harold "Oddjob" Sakata, George Jessel, and Rhona Barrett. Warner Bros. Studios thought it was so bad that they decided at the last minute not to release it!
IMDB:tt0066221