Porklips Now
7.2 /10 1 Votes
Genre Comedy, Short Duration Director Ernie Fosselius Screenplay Ernie Fosselius | 7.2/10 IMDb Writer Ernie Fosselius Initial release October 1980 Running time 28 minutes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Music director Ernie Fosselius, Dick Bright, Ken Melville, Tom Donald Cast Ernie Fosselius (Mertz), Billy Gray (Dullard), John Brent (Head Butcher), Jim Turner (Rick), Larry Walker (Famous Italian Director)Similar movies Ernie Fosselius directed Porklips Now and Hardware Wars | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Porklips now
Porklips Now is a short, low budget parody film, made in 1980 by the American director Ernie Fosselius, based on the 1979 motion picture Apocalypse Now.
Contents
It chronicles the journey of Dullard (played by William "Billy" Gray, most famous as "Bud" in the Father Knows Best TV series), a gardener and handyman, sent to Chinatown by two butchers to meet a business rival, Fred "Madman" Mertz, and "take care of business". The film cleverly and humorously incorporates references to signature elements of the film on which it is based, albeit in a somewhat conspicuously low-budget manner.
Echoing a widely held if erroneous belief about Apocalypse Now, the film features several alternate endings.
The film was included on the compilation VHS release Hardware Wars, and Other Film Farces from Warner Home Video and is currently available on VHS and DVD from Pyramid Direct Films.
Porklips now 1980
Complete credited cast
DVD release
In 2009, Apprehensive Films released Porklips Now onto DVD.
References
Porklips Now WikipediaPorklips Now IMDb Porklips Now themoviedb.org