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5.3/10   240 votes
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Director:
Elliot Silverstein
Writers:
Ronald Austin (screenplay)
Ronald Austin (story)
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Release Date:
March 1967 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Plot:
A few hippies "go with the flow" and end up kidnapping a retired Mafia kingpin. full summary | add synopsis
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This one Happens to be Bad more

Cast

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Anthony Quinn ... Roc Delmonico
Michael Parks ... Sureshot
George Maharis ... Taurus
Robert Walker Jr. ... Herby
Martha Hyer ... Monica

Faye Dunaway ... Sandy
Oskar Homolka ... Sam
Jack Kruschen ... Inspector

Milton Berle ... Fred
James Randolph Kuhl ... Arnold
Clifton James ... O'Reilly
Luke Askew ... Second Motorcycle Officer

Eugene Roche ... First Motorcycle Officer
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Additional Details

Runtime:
101 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Pathécolor)
Sound Mix:
Mono

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During ‘The Happening’'s shoot, Robert Walker Jr. was working on two projects at the same time. The second week of filming he did double duty shooting an episode of "The Time Tunnel" (1966), where he played Billy the Kid. more
Soundtrack:
All I Know About You more

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2 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
This one Happens to be Bad, 13 June 2008
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Author: david from California, USA

I saw this when it was first released in 1967. I was 27 and neither a hippie nor a flower child, but I'd loved movies for 20 years, and saw 150 or so movies in theatres every year. THE HAP- PENING is on my Worst List for '67 (not #1, though; that'd be SHOOT LOUD LOUDER...I DON'T UNDERSTAND), and to this day I can't think of anything positive to say about it.

Okay, okay, the theme song was pretty good, and Faye Dunaway wore one of those bare midriff pantsuits so popular at the time. Other than that, Nada. Quinn, Maharis and Parks are among the worst actors in talking pictures, and Robert Walker Jr. would have been, if he'd had a career. No problem, his dad was bad enough for both of 'em.

The only question now is will the new Happening be as bad as the original? From what I hear and read, it'll be pretty close.

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