You may or may not want to watch this clip, which consists of the last nine minutes of Skidoo, a completely unbelievable movie made in 1968 by director Otto Preminger. It was the kind of film that had audiences coming out of the theater muttering, "I did not see what I just saw." A few of those people even stayed to the end — and if they did, they got to see the best thing in the picture…the closing credits. They were all sung aloud by Harry Nilsson, and those credits are in this clip, right after Carol Channing performs the film's uncatchy title song.
Skidoo was covered in more detail in this post, which includes a link to its trailer. Later that same day, we wrote more about the film in this post. Basically, it's Preminger trying to latch onto the "hippie" scene of that time period and to explore/exploit it with a cast that included Groucho Marx, Jackie Gleason, Peter Lawford, Mickey Rooney and everyone who'd played a villain on the Batman TV show. The result was a movie that probably caused a lot of filmgoers to take up drugs.
I hesitated a bit about linking to the end of a movie. We don't like people who give away endings. But in this case, you won't have any idea what's going on with the plot. In fact, you could have seen the film, start to finish, ten times and not had any idea what was going on with the plot.
I should caution those with delicate sensibilities that there is a tiny bit of nudity in this clip. Also, you get to see Groucho smoking marijuana in what turned out to be his final scene in his final motion picture. That and Nilsson singing the credits are probably worth nine minutes of your life. It certainly beats watching the whole movie.
