- Scavenger Hunt
Infobox Film
name = Scavenger Hunt
caption = "Scavenger Hunt" film poster
director =Michael Schultz
producer =Melvin Simon
writer = Henry Harper
John Thomson
Steven Vail
Gerry Woolery
starring =Richard Benjamin James Coco Scatman Crothers Cloris Leachman Cleavon Little
music =Billy Goldenberg
cinematography =Ken Lamkin
editing =
distributor =20th Century Fox
released =December 21 ,1979
runtime = 116 min.
country = US
awards =
language = English
budget =
amg_id = 1:43103
imdb_id = 0079858
"Scavenger Hunt" is a 1979
comedy film with a large ensemble cast, in the mold of the 1963 comedy "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ".Plot summary
An eccentric game inventor (
Vincent Price ) dies, stipulating in his will that the winner of an elaboratescavenger hunt will inherit his estate. The various (potential) beneficiaries form teams and each team gets involved in various misadventures along the way.Cast
The ensemble cast includes
Richard Benjamin ,Cloris Leachman ,Cleavon Little ,Roddy McDowall ,Dirk Benedict ,Willie Aames ,Robert Morley ,Tony Randall ,Ruth Gordon ,Scatman Crothers ,Richard Mulligan andJames Coco . The film was directed byMichael Schultz , and released by20th Century Fox . It is also one of the earliest movie appearances ofArnold Schwarzenegger and has a special appearance by rock legendMeat Loaf .Availability
The film itself was first issued onto the home video market in 1984, only on videocassette (both Beta and VHS formats), by CBS/FOX Home Video. It remained available on video until it was eventually discontinued in the mid 1990s. This movie was never issued on any videodisc format (CED or Laserdisc); and, as of early 2008, has not yet been released on DVD.
External links
*imdb title|id=0079858|title=Scavenger Hunt
*amg movie|id=1:43103|title=Scavenger Hunt
*rotten-tomatoes|id=scavenger_hunt|title=Scavenger Hunt
*mojo title|id=scavengerhunt|title=Scavenger Hunt
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