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Mr. Mike's Mondo Video (1979): Dir. Michael O'Donoghue
Feat. Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Carrie Fisher…; Notorious spoof of the Italian schockumentaries is the brain child of Saturday Night Live's oddball genius Michael O'Donoghue. Originally…
Cheap Detective, The (1978): Dir. Robert Moore
Feat. Peter Falk, Ann-Margret, Eileen Brennan…; Neil Simon's spoof of Bogart detective movies, with Falk fitting comfortably into his raincoat. A mixed bag, but worthwhile for those…
Flying High (Airplane!) (1978): Dir. David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams
Feat. Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges…; Side–splittingly funny lampoon of the Airport / Disaster movie genre, voted the best comedy of all time in 1999 by EMPIRE magazine.
Rutles, The (All You Need is Cash) (1978): Dir. Gary Weis, Eric Idle
Feat. Michael Palin, John Belushi, Bianca Jagger…; The mock–Beatles twist and "rut" in a spot–on piss–take of the Fab Four, led by Monty Python’s Eric Idle and making a…
High Anxiety (1977): Dir. Mel Brooks
Feat. Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman…; Mel Brooks' affectionate tribute to Alfred Hitchcock threads a story by lampooning famous scenes from the Master's films including THE BIRDS,…
Soap (TV Series) (1977): Feat. Billy Crystal, Katherine Helmond, Robert Mulligan…; Still the best satire of the television soap opera, this initially controversial series enveloped its line–up of characters in plots involving…
Strange Case of the End of Civilisation as We Know It, The (1977): Dir. Joseph McGrath
Feat. John Cleese, Arthur Lowe, Stratford Johns…; Fans of John Cleese will delight in this dapper detective parody starring the tall one as the bungling descendant of Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Lowe…
Big Bus, The (1976): Dir. James Frawley
Feat. Ned Beatty, Stockard Channing, Rene Auberjonois…; One of the first and best of the 'Disaster Movie' spoofs – set aboard a nuclear–powered bus which loses its brakes somewhere along the…
Mastermind (1976): Dir. Alex March
Feat. Zero Mostel, Bradford Dillman; Plenty of slapstick and movie in–jokes as Zero Mostel plays the fool in this enjoyably bizarre Charlie Chan detective spoof. Released in 1976.
Peeper (1976): Dir. Peter Hyams
Feat. Michael Caine, Natalie Wood, Kitty Winn…; Patchy noir send–up with Caine as a poor man's Phillip Marlowe struggling to find a missing woman, with his biggest obstacle being himself.

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