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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Arlo Guthrie | ... | Arlo | |
| Patricia Quinn | ... | Alice (as Pat Quinn) | |
| James Broderick | ... | Ray | |
| Pete Seeger | ... | Pete Seeger | |
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Lee Hays | ... | Lee Hays |
| Michael McClanathan | ... | Shelly | |
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Geoff Outlaw | ... | Roger |
| Tina Chen | ... | Mari-chan | |
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Kathleen Dabney | ... | Karin |
| William Obanhein | ... | Officer Obie | |
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Seth Allen | ... | Evangelist |
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Monroe Arnold | ... | Blueglass |
| Joseph Boley | ... | Woody | |
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Vinnette Carroll | ... | Draft Clerk |
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Sylvia Davis | ... | Marjorie |
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Arlo Guthrie's song is converted into a motion picture. Arlo goes to see Alice for Thanksgivng and as a favor takes her trash to the dump. When the dump is closed, he drops it on top of another pile of garbage at the bottom of a ravine. When the local sheriff finds out a major manhunt begins. Arlo manages to survive the courtroom experience but it haunts him when he is to be inducted into the army via the draft. The movie follows the song with Arlo's voice over as both music and narration. Written by John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
20 August 1969 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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$6,300,000Company Credits
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Arlo: I didn't get nothin'. I had to pay fifty dollars, and pick up the garbage.
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(uncredited)
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The real Alice Brock and Ray Brock appear as extras in the film. In the scene where "Ray" is putting up insulation, she is wearing a brown turtleneck and has her hair in a ponytail. In the Thanksgiving scene she wears a bright pink satin blouse. In the party scene she's wearing a Western-style dress. See more »Goofs
Early in the film Arlo goes "out west" for college (according to his bio he went to Rocky Mountain College in Billings, MT) and has an altercation with some bigots at a pizza parlor. There is a neon sign on the pizza parlor that advertises "Pizza and Grinders". "Grinders" is a New England name for "submarine" sandwiches and is rarely used outside of the area. See more »Quotes
Criminal: [approaching Arlo on the bench] Kid, what'd you get?Arlo: I didn't get nothin'. I had to pay fifty dollars, and pick up the garbage.
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Referenced in Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (2003) See more »Soundtracks
Boiling Cabbage Down(uncredited)
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This excellent film was written by my late screen writing teacher Venable Herndon, but I saw it and fell in love with it long before I took his class.
It manages to be both good humored and effortlessly profound at the same time. The recruitment scenes are hysterically funny. I miss movies with this laid-back quality. A lot of people are adverse to this type of loose narrative structure, but since almost every flick and TV show has such a rigid structure why can't the rest of us have a couple of films to ourselves.
The final shot of Alice's Restaurant with all its beautiful ambiguity has affected me more than the final shot of the "Searchers" every time I've seen it. It manages to celebrate something and take it with a grain of salt at the same time. Hurrah for the director of photography!
A beautiful trip all round.