Under the Rainbow (1981)

Director:

Steve Rash

Writers:

Fred Bauer (story) and
Pat Bradley (story) ...

Release Date:

31 July 1981 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

A Giant Comedy.

Plot:

In World War II era Los Angeles, the manager of the Culver Hotel leaves his nephew in charge for a weekend...

Plot Keywords:

Hotel | Munchkin | Wig | Spy | Ship

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Chevy Chase	...	Bruce Thorpe
Carrie Fisher	...	Annie Clark
Eve Arden	...	The Duchess
Joseph Maher	...	The Duke
Robert Donner	...	The Assassin
Billy Barty	...	Otto Kriegling
Mako	...	Nakomuri
Cork Hubbert	...	Rollo Sweet
Pat McCormick	...	Tiny
Adam Arkin	...	Henry Hudson
Richard Stahl	...	Lester Hudson
Freeman King	...	Otis
Peter Isacksen	...	Homer
Jack Kruschen	...	Louie
Bennett Ohta	...	Akido

Runtime:

97 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:PG | UK:PG

Filming Locations:

RMS Queen Mary - 1126 Queens Highway, Long Beach, California, USA

Company:

FCA

Trivia:

Jerry Maren (the pitcher in the kitchen baseball scene) was actor in the movie who was originally in The Wizard of Oz (1939), where he played a Munchkin in the Lollipop Guild. He later said he regretted making this movie because it was in such poor taste and nothing remotely like that ever happened while filming the original movie.

Goofs:

Factual errors: The movie suggests that The Wizard of Oz (1939) went into production after Gone with the Wind (1939), when in fact it was the other way around.

Quotes:

Henry Hudson: You are bad little people, you deserve to be short!
[after being catapulted onto a chandelier]

Movie Connections:

Featured in Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)

It was a spoof

But it was supposed to be a spoof. I could not stop laughing as the movie was so much of a farce I found it to keep me laughing all the time. I would not recommend it for theater view but if you have never seen the movie I would say its worth watching as a rental as the cost of it is so little now. You could rent something much more costly and worse like Dead Calm. I found that all the dumb things that happened such as trying to keep the suicidal dog in the picture just more then my sides could take at times. When that dog jumped out of the window for the ball I lost it. How could you not think something as this movie which I assume was to be as "B" a movie as anyone could possibly make not be funny? I found it much better then the Vacation movies by far. I would say that this review has a spoiler but this movie cant be spoiled as there is no real plot.