The Hollywood Knights

Plot synopsis:
During the opening credits, the voice of deejay Surf Sam (Dave Sebastian Williams) of radio station KBLA announces that Halloween night 1965 is hours away, and that Tubby's Drive-In, the Hollywood Knights' hangout, is closing for good that evening. An egg hits the name of director Floyd Mutrux.The leader of the Knights, Newbomb Turk (Robert Wuhl), pulls a dead body prank on an elderly woman with one of his friends hiding under the tonneau cover of the 1965 El Camino he borrowed from his older brother.Sally (Fran Drescher) and her friends are tanning (some topless) by the pool, and Newbomb catches some instant photos with his camera before they discover him and drive him off.Officer Bimbeaux (Gailard Sartain) and Officer Clark (Sandy Helberg) meet with the police chief. He warns the officers not to aggravate the situation about the drive-in on its last evening of business. He then notices that the Knights have tagged the side of the patrol car with spray paint.The Beverly Hills Residents Association meets at the home of Jacqueline Friedman (Leigh French). Bimbeaux and Clark stand by in the kitchen, arguing loudly about popular music. The doorbell brings Jacqueline and her secret lover Nevans (Richard Schaal) onto the porch where a flaming bag of dog poop awaits them, and the Knights moon them from their car as they speed off.At nightfall, three of the Knights: Wheatly (Randy Gornel), Shorty (Glenn Withrow) and Simpson (P.R. Paul) meet Newbomb at the drive-in and ask whether it is a good idea to borrow the El Camino. Simpson promises he will bring his custom rail job car later. In the patrol car, Clark asks Bimbeaux if he would look good in a mustache, and sings about Lawrence of Arabia. Bimbeaux argues the movie soundtrack has no lyrics.The Knights drive to Watts with their four club pledges, order them to strip naked and retrieve the four tires in the trunk. For initiation, they must request a song from the KBLA deejay and return to Tubby's Drive-In by 2:00 AM in the morning. Surf Sam turns over the broadcast to Doctor J (Humble Harvey Miller).Back in Hollywood, the Knights hide in a tree to wait for Sally and the girls to arrive at their secret spot to change into other, more sexy clothes for the pep rally. As they remove their bras, Newbomb loses his balance and gives them away; the girls flee as the cops arrive. Bimbeaux reads off the Knights.At Smitty's auto shop located right next door to Tubby's Drive-In, Duke (Tony Danza) and Suzie (Michelle Pfeiffer) discuss her upcoming screen test and her job as a carhop. She needs a flexible schedule to pursue her acting career. Duke complains that men making wisecracks about her disturb him, and she argues that she is the one who must tolerate it.Meanwhile, the Iron Box Twins, Brenda and Shirley Weintraub (Joyce Heiser, Roberta Wallach), arrive at the drive-in for burgers, and when the song "Volare" plays on the radio the girls pull off to avoid Newbomb, who tends to do a farting version of the song. Jimmy Shine (Gary Graham) discusses his deployment to Vietnam with Duke and Smitty (James Jeter), their mentor. Moosie (Moosie Drier), a youngster with a penchant for skateboards, arrives. The officers yell at him for carrying cigarettes, but he then hops a ride with some of the girls in their convertible. Sally cruises off with a college-aged man to Newbomb's disappointmentWhile driving down a road in Hollywood, Newbomb shows the girls the pictures he took of them at the pool. He parks the El Camino by a fire hydrant outside the high school to go to the pep rally and ignores warnings from his friends. At the rally, Jacqueline brings her husband Jack (Garry Goodrow) onstage with local weatherman Thorny Thornwell (Will Thornbury). The band enters the gym, and a banner is unfurled which reads, "Beat the Panthers," with graffiti ("shit out of the") added in the middle, tagged by the Knights.Elsewhere, Dudley Laywicker (Stuart Pankin) and his mother (Mina Kolb) head to the rally for Dudley to receive his honor student check for $500 to cover his first year of college tuition. He is wearing his band uniform and balks when his mother suggests stopping at a restaurant because he says the staff teases him when he arrives in uniform. She ignores him.Jacqueline is making out in a car with Nevans when Dudley arrives and asks for her opinion of which magic trick he should use for the evening's talent contest. Nevans hides on the floor of the back seat, but Dudley spots Nevans' trousers. As Jacqueline tries to make an excuse, Dudley accidentally hits the car horn, which jams on. Jacqueline shoos him away. Newbomb and the Knights startle Dudley into a pseudo asthmatic fit. Dudley begs for his puffer inhaler, asking them not to hurt him as he might be a bleeder. Newbomb borrows parts of his uniform.Back at the rally, one of the Beverly Hills cheerleaders innocently forgets her underpants and flashes the crowd during a cheer.The officers spot the El Camino at the fire hydrant and call to have it impounded. Some of the Knights in hiding egg the cops and sing the Lawrence of Arabia tune Clark had sung earlier.Jack Friedman announces that Dudley is coming onstage for his scholarship check, but Newbomb takes the stage in Dudley's uniform and launches into his farting rendition of "Volare," escaping by outrunning security. The other Knights tell Newbomb that Bimbeaux towed the El Camino. They speed out, leaving Dudley to retrieve his discarded clothes. The officers mistakenly think Dudley is the perpetrator until the faculty and school photographer arrive and straighten everything out.Meanwhile, two of the pledges in Watts are hiding in the bushes outside a couple's home (and realize they are making love) while the other two borrow makeshift outfits from sheets on the clothesline. The corner of a pillowcase stands up on one pledge's head, and the husband spots it and grabs his shotgun, thinking he sees the KKK. The boys flee, finally arriving across from the record store but unable to figure out how to get to the deejay.Newbomb returns in his own car, labeled as a pie wagon. He hides under it when his brother (Demetre Phillips) arrives looking for the El Camino and tells the Knights if anything happens to the car, he will strangle Newbomb. The others cover for Newbomb and he fakes indifference when the coast is clear. In the women's restroom, the Iron Box Twins discuss a rumor about the Friedmans' daughter until they find that Newbomb has hidden in a stall and tape-recorded them.Surfer dude Tarzan (Gary Prendergast) arrives with his hot girlfriends Jane (Carol Ann Williams) and Cheetah (Debra Feuer). Newbomb drives them around the neighborhood in their custom Woody, tries to score a feel and gets a milkshake dumped on him. Simpson and Wheatly race another souped-up car, and when they lose, they discuss whether the Knights will stay together once some of the members go to Vietnam or college. Wheatly says Simpson can cruise with him and the Knights will not ever break up.A catering van pulls up at the high school dance, and the Knights convince them to hand over the punch they are delivering. Newbomb tells the caterers to detour the van through the hibiscus gardens because the area will soon become the Newbomb Turk Memorial Library. The Knights, in a tribute to Tubby's, spike the punch by urinating in it. Moosie warns people going into the dance but, when Bimbeaux and Clark catch him with a cigarette, he tells them to enjoy the punch. At the punchbowl, Jacqueline and Nevans discuss the strange beverage and summon the officers. Bimbeaux tries the punch and asks for seconds. The caterers, anxious to be finished for the night, decide to drive through the bushes as Newbomb said, and the underbrush wrecks the delivery van. The faculty members and Jacqueline are furious that the Knights are involved again.Jane and Cheetah join in another plot and flash Dudley so they can borrow his clothes again; Dudley asks Newbomb to be careful with the rented magician's cape when he goes to the talent contest. Beside the stage, Shorty switches out the PA system and replays the recording of the bathroom conversation by the Iron Box Twins for the audience, to the embarrassment of the twins and Jack, who is the emcee.Simpson assures Dudley that he will be back shortly in his rail job and to stay put while he is missing his clothes (and with them, his glasses and puffer). Jack Friedman announces the next talent contestant, Mr. Sasha Dabinski, the One-Armed Violinist. Dabinski is actually Wheatly, with Newbomb accompanying him at the piano; hiding one arm inside the waistband of the pants, Wheatly holds the violin with his chin, rasps a solo with his free hand, then grabs the bow at his crotch.Jacqueline and Nevans leave the usual confines of his car to make out on a trampoline, only to meet up with Dudley, who is stumbling around in the dark without his glasses. Sally brushes off her college boyfriend in favor of Newbomb, and they head to the pie wagon. As they get ready to make love, Newbomb is unable to hold out long enough. She whines at him for being immature, but he is relieved.At Smitty's they reveal a special custom car to Jimmy Shine as a going away present. Their guest, custom car man Tony Nancy, and the men show Jimmy a tape deck inside playing the Mamas and the Papas as Jimmy thinks about his deployment the next day.The time is 1:00 AM in the morning. Back in South-Central Watts, two local thieves strip tires from a car just as the four pledges pass by with their tires from the Knights' car, and the homeowners give chase... mistakenly thinking that the four teens stole their tires.Back at the shop, Smitty is discussing his time in the war, when he and a man known as Grease modified a jeep engine and buzzed General MacArthur during a parade. Grease later died in a drunken crash. As they reflect on the tragedies of war, Jimmy Shine says he wants the new car to go to the club if anything happens to him in Vietnam, but the other men tell him not to worry.Back in Watts, the pledges decide to take their chances with a group of street corner singers, hoping they can give the song dedication to the deejay. The pledges are running out of time to return to Beverly Hills. The singers ask the pledges if they are familiar with marijuana and agree to take on the task after the boys share a toke.Bimbeaux and Clark receive an upbraiding by the captain on their radio. Still, Bimbeaux cannot resist teasing Newbomb about the impounded El Camino, and Newbomb decides to get even when the officer uses the restroom. Shorty fixes the restroom doorknob with his handy screwdriver, and Tarzan gets a potato for the tailpipe of the patrol car. While Clark waits in the car, he draws a fake mustache on his face using a marker. Bimbeaux goes into the bathroom. The toilet, stopped up with toilet paper, floods the floor when he flushes. Outside Newbomb dumps cans of garbage in front of the door. When Bimbeaux is trapped in the bathroom and calls for help, Clark shoots out the doorknob with his service pistol, and Bimbeaux slides on the trash when he comes out, ruining his uniform.Simpson arrives with his rail job. Dudley jumps in front of the patrol car when the officers attempt to give chase, as if seized by epilepsy, then jumps up and escapes the cops by hopping a ride in the rail job. When the officers try again to pursue, they hit another car. Returning to the drive-in at closing time, Jimmy Shine gives Dudley his Knights jacket to watch until he returns. When the Knights suggest picking up the pledges they left in Watts, at first Dudley panics, then he takes a final drag on his puffer and discards it, ready to go.Duke and Suzie talk at last. She says she cares more about him than her screen test. Duke confesses that he was worried if she became an actor he would not be good enough for her, but she says she loves him and they reconcile with a kiss.The street corner singers meet Doctor J on KBLA just in time, and he announces the request on the radio as the pledges arrive at Tubby's parking lot, the requested song plays to end the Halloween broadcast, and they earn their Knights jackets. Jimmy Shine leaves to have a farewell dinner with his family before he departs for Vietnam and he hugs Smitty, who has been like a father to him.Dudley calls his mother to tell her he will be late because he has a assignation with a girl and is going to get laid, and she faints. Jacqueline and Nevans are still experiencing aftereffects from the spiked punch, but are in Nevans' car parked outside her home. She assures him that her husband is too drunk to wake up. When the cops give chase to the Knights, the patrol car crashes into Nevans' car and Jack appears, catching the two with their clothes in disarray as the Knights moon them all.In the final scene, Tubby's Drive In shuts off their lights for the last time as the end credits roll.

Tags: revenge, prank

Review:
The first major film for Tony Danza, Michelle Pfieffer, and Robert Wuhl, "The Hollywood Knights" is funny, gross, bawdy, and nostalgic all at the same time.
Folks, this is not a movie to be judged or rated by ordinary or serious standards as you would "I Am Legend" or "Gone With The Wind." Admittedly, this is a typical early 1980s (set in the 1960s) teen trash and laugh fests crudely mixed together from "Animal House" and "American Graffiti." No real plot, a thousand different things happen at once to group of wild teenagers (played by numerous soon-to-be's) who pull crazy pranks on Halloween Night 1965.However, if you are not of the overly-sensitive politically correct crowd or watching this with (very) young children, this film is FUNNY!
At my age a movie like this one brings back the feelings of being young again and a desire to turn back the hands of time to the good times with good friends, good music and hot rods..
The setting in 1965 with the Vietnam conflict, changes in race relations and music gaining momentum, makes for a perfect setting for a group of fun-loving senior high students who gather their car club together on Halloween night for an evening at the local drive-in burger joint nobody will forget.
Everybody knows or has known a Newbomb Turk, guys will enjoy the cars and antics, and gals will like the nostalgia and the love story between Danza and Michelle Pfeiffer.
Of the many movies I recorded at the time, The Hollywood Knights was the one I came back to over and over again, until one of my friends "borrowed" my cherished copy, never to see it again.
Years after I saw it for the first time, many of the actors kept appearing in new roles and I asked myself: Hey, wasn't he (or she) in the Hollywood Knights cast ?
This is one of the few movies I can remember in which this happened several times (Pfeiffer, Danza, Pankin, Dresher, Wuhl, Helberg and Graham ).
For all the one -liners, the practical jokes, the cast, the cars, and the music, it is a great movie to enjoy for years to come ...
the hollywood knights incorporates the cream of the crop when it comes to killer rides, laugh till you cry pranks and gags, as well as a major stepping stone for many of tinseltowns now famous stars like tony danza,michelle pffeifer and fran dresher.i just hope that sony pictures will finally put an end to the suffering of the fans of this film and release it to homevideo.it was released by coloumbia originally(part of sony now) in 1980.19 years is too long to let a gem like this go unmined..
I was a teenager in the 60's and life in this movie is nothing like the way it was for me growing up, but I love to watch it and think of how much fun it would have been to own some of the expensive equipment the kids in this movie have.
I like this best of all the 60's type movies, I especially like the street singers, makes me wished I could sing every time I watch it.
There is nothing pretentious or any deeply layered meanings to be found anywhere in this 90 minute romp about a car club whose favorite hangout is set to close after one last night of mayhem.Car enthusiasts will love the various hot-rods that tear up the streets throughout the film.
The film gets the rest of its laughs from low-brow pranks perpetrated by the gang of record.We see the Knights stuff baked potatoes in the tailpipes of cop cars, kidnap and humiliate and honor student, disrupt a country club dance, and drag race up and down the streets of L.A..
Pfeiffer and Danza of course went on to much better things, as did Fran Drescher.Still funny after all these years, The Hollywood Knights is certainly worth a look.
Great soundtrack, awesome cars - fun to see many stars first time out - Hubba Hubba to Michelle P.
You got "Taxi" star, Tony Danza, Fran Drescher from "Saturday Night Fever", Michelle Pfeiffer, and several others including Robert Wuhl as Newbomb, which 9 years later play Alexander Knox in "Batman".
The only reason I watched this is I was attempting to fill in the gaps of my Michelle Pfeiffer experience ( my favorite actress ) I would venture to say that it's one of the most unfunny comedies ever made and horribly hard to sit through.About as bad and inept as movies get.The only amusing thing for me was that Tony Danza's annoyed opening line to Michelle is "Oh that's right I forgot.
Tony Danza and Michelle Pfeiffer are ostensibly the stars of "The Hollywood Knights", but cheap, flashy Robert Wuhl walks away with the picture (though it's no mean feat).
The Hollywood Knights was a pretty hilarious high school prank movie to me.
Now, for the most part I enjoyed this movie especially the scenes with Robert Wuhl, Stuart Pankin, and Fran Drescher especially her attempt to have sex with Wuhl in the car.
As in Animal House this movie will have you remembering pranks you tried and moronic silly things you laughed at yet it will take you back, I'm betting, in a good way..
It is basically the perfect guys movie, because it has cars, topless and nude women, drag races, beer, topless and nude women, great music, practical jokes, insults, topless and nude women, simulated sex and innuendo,more women, farting,and of course topless and nude women.
Especially if you like the old cars that were made to last and turn heads.It has the romance that every woman wants.It has the laughs that will keep you watching until the end.Be prepared, keep this one within arm's reach on your video shelf..
THE HOLLYWOOD KNIGHTS (1980) ***1/2 Robert Wuhl, Tony Danza, Michelle Pfeiffer, Fran Drescher, Stuart Pankin.
Uproariously funny comedy: the anti "American Graffiti" with Wuhl as Turk Newbomb, a prankster running amok Halloween in 1965 LA the last night before they close down the local hang--out.
But we all have our own memories.Some remember rock-and-roll, sock hops, drag racing, first loves and the howl of Wolfman Jack over their radios."The Hollywood Knights" remembers the social fringe-dwellers of the fifties; the ones who practically lived at the drive-in restaurants, rang all the town's doorbells and ran, mooned the police officers, pulled every rude trick created to anyone of authority and did extremely rude things with the refreshments.In fact, there's more "Animal House" than "American Graffiti" here; and with a cast the likes of Wuhl, Danza, Pankin and Drescher, with Helberg and Sartain as a couple of cops who must rank as characters that even the Keystone Kops would see as unsubtle, there are even more laughs to be had in the delivery.For all you fringies, do whatever it takes to catch "The Hollywood Knights": the definitive Moosie Drier film.Six stars.
The Hollywood Knights is a great comedy taking place in 1965 at Tubby's Drive-In.
The central character is Newbomb Turk and his gang of "Knights." This movie is considered one of the many "Drive-In" types.
Another example of a "Drive-In" type movie is "American Graffiti," which the Hollywood Knights is based off of.
There's also two serious stories about a Knight going off to Vietnam and two lovers (Tony Danza and Michelle Pfeiffer) whose relationship is falling apart.There's nothing wrong with crude humor.
The film looks cheap, moves in jerks and leaps (it was incredible how ineptly the multiple story lines are handled) and is just boring.The only reason to see this is to see Danza, Pfeiffer, Robert Wuhl and Fran Drescher all so young and before they hit it big.
...of the better films that came before it.I first heard of this movie in 1984 when cable TV was really coming into its own and a buddy of mine tried to describe the "Volare" singing scene but couldn't get through it without cracking up...guess it was the times..the anything goes 80's.Years later I was surfing the internet and came across some glowing reviews(like many of the ones appearing here)and after finding out that the same guy who was behind "American Hot Wax"( a film I saw on cable and liked )was behind this I thought I'd give it a shot.What a disappointment...a series of low brow gags frenetically paced and interspersed with some attempts at seriousness ( Jimmy Shine's impending departure to Nam )and romance ( the Tony Danza/Michelle Pfeiffer "breakup")...scenes that have a contrived,tacked-on feel as if they came from some other undeveloped project.Its as if the writer director Floyd Mutrux couldn't decide what kind of movie he wanted to make so he just threw this up on the wall to see if any of it stuck..
I'd probably watch film footage of Michelle Pfeiffer polishing furniture...and the cars are cool)this film is just way too derivative of the territory mined by George Lucas 7 years previous with "American Graffiti" and John Landis 2 years previous with "Animal House"...Mutrux gives nothing new to the formula other than swinging much wider with the smutty style of humor that the passage of a couple of years time has allowed.
What pains me is the comments of those who regard this as some sort of masterpiece of comedic nostalgia that puts the aforementioned Lucas/Landis projects to shame ...this film may be a suitable time capsule for your recollections of 1965 as filtered through "Porky's"-tinted glasses but you folks really need to gain some perspective before you diss "Graffiti"...George Lucas practically invented the genre that Mutrux is exploiting here...I know cause I remember being a kid in the early 60's and facing Vietnam while leaving high school...and in 1973 "Graffiti" was such a welcome voyage back to a more secure and innocent past that only two films that year drew a bigger audience..."The Sting" and "The Exorcist" and Lucas achieved that with a pittance in funding compared to the other two yet garnered several Academy Award nominations...including Best Picture.And he pretty much invented the use of a period music soundtrack to achieve realism..a technique that has been copied in addition to the use of multiple story lines occurring simultaneously that are both commonplace today.The epilogue ending with the "where are they now"?character cards was totally original and a real jolt at the time..a sucker punch that fortold of things to come and was effectively stood on its ear by Landis in his closing in "Animal House" .
As noted in other posts here, it's sort of the "poor man's" 'American Graffiti/Animal House'--a "guilty pleasure" that you shouldn't have to apologize for enjoying!'Knights' is far from the greatest flick ever made, but it definitely has its moments--despite having Tony Danza in it!
There is one major factual error in the film that has always driven me nuts, though: the scene in the garage where Danza unveils the 8-track player in the hot rod and pops in the tape of the Mamas & Papas doing "California Dreamin'"  Great moment, but just one problem:  the movie is set on Halloween night, 1965, and "California Dreamin'" wasn't released until early, '66!Nonetheless, cool cars, cute chicks and great music abound throughout the film, and it's one of those movies that you just can't seem to turn off, regardless of how many times you've seen it.
Released in 1980, this was another crazy teenage comedy which tried to emulate the exceptional '70s films "American Graffiti" and "Animal House", and comes up short.
He's got at least one funny bit involving Fran Drescher as a gorgeous bimbo who he manages to get in the back seat of his car, but not for very long (it's the best scene in the film).
And last and least, we get Michelle Pfeiffer and TAXI's Tony Danza taking up unnecessary screen time as a couple going through some troubles in extraneous segments which are completely unrelated and take you out of the movie.
If you want a coming of age movie, American Graffiti is better.I must say that Michelle Pfeiffer in this movie has never looked better.
If you appreciate just looking at beautiful women, like I do, just rent or buy this movie for her alone.Additional Irony - The Tony Danza character doesn't want Michelle to leave because she's going to be a big star and forget him.
A sort of comedic companion to American Graffiti, this movie saw its popularity blossom when it was first aired on cable TV in 1982, two years after its theatrical release.
There's no actual acting going on and I've heard that there really wasn't a script written, just improvised.It shows.Probably the only two things worth watching in Hollywood Knights are the spiking-the-punch scene and listening to a new version of Volare, one that relies heavily on the character's bean intake and your tolerance for bathroom humor.Welcome to it..
Sort of American GRAFFITI MEETS ANIMAL HOUSE.It's funny & very lowbrow.Look at how many of the actors in their first feature went on to great success.Michelle Pfeiffer has several Oscar nominations to her credit.Robert Wuhl has been in several movies since.Stuart Pankin did NOT NECESSARILY THE NEWS & DINOSAURS.Fran Drescher was THE NANNY.Gary Graham had a recurring role on ENTERPRISE.My only disappointment was no "where are they now?" segment at the end.I also sort of hoped for a sequel.I recently bought the DVD,director Floyd Mutrux's commentary is very interesting.Any old car buff will love the autos used in the drag race & Tubby's Drive-In scenes..
The two cops who I remember being hysterical are just downright not funny.Throughout the whole movie I just kept wondering how Tony Danza and Michelle Pfieffer got roped into this ultra cliché ridden plot.
If you have not seen this, do yourself a favor and rent American Graffiti instead - it is a 1000 times better and actually has a plot.
She loves American Graffitti and put this film right up there with it as one of the better teenage movies.
Anyway, like I said about an american graffiti ripoff because its about a group of friends that spend one night on Halloween at their favorite burger joint before it closes.
The relatively unknown cast of Robert Wuhl, Tony Danza, Michelle Pfeiffer, among others, romp through a series of practical jokes to celebrate the closing of their favorite hangout.
How can you not love a movie with the drama similar to American Graffiti, and the humor of Porky's.
Starring Tony Danza, Michelle Pfeiffer, and the great Robert Wuhl as the hilarious Newbomb Turk.
He is a car lover and music lover, so i watched it along with the movie American Graffiti, i was hooked.
This movie has a drive in type setting with teenagers, fast cars, and good times.
Overall I'd rate this movie fair to good, no more than that.I never knew this movie existed until the day I went to the Star Drive In for one of the Wednesday night car shows to show my '82 Nissan Sentra wagon that I had partially restored and I met up with the current owner (whom I've known by sight for a few years) of the orange Chevrolet sedan delivery that was used in the movie by the gang leader of "The Hollywood Knights", which can be seen right on the box cover of this movie.
It's a classic prankster comedy in the tradition of "American Graffiti", which, all though a better film, isn't as funny.
I didn't think it would be funny, and the cover of the DVD was kind of a turn-off, because it featured only Tony Danza and Michelle Pfeiffer (I'm not a fan of either of them).
He's the main character!*Robert Wuhl is a much better actor than Michelle Pfeiffer or Tony Danza..
In the great tradition of animal house and American Graffiti is the Hollywood Knights, a fun filled movie about a car club going through the last night before their hangout is torn down.
A great cast starting with Robert Wuhl as Newbomb, Fran Drescher as Sally and Tony Danza and Michelle Pfeiffer in their first movies.
So give the Knights a try some time soon, and see what the great High School movies are supposed to be like..
I recommend it for anyone who liked American Graffiti, Heart Like A Wheel, Hot Rod, and any other car movies.
Also notable for first film credit for such well-known talents as Tony Danza, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert Wuhl, and Fran Drescher.
A lot of stars got there start in this movie- Tony Danza, Michelle Pfiefer, Fran Drescher, and Robert Wuhl.
Hollywood Knights ranks as one of my top 10 favorite movies of all time.
Gailard Sartain is brilliant as Bimbeaux, Robert Wuhl and Fran Drescher give the performances of their careers, and despite the boring Danza-Pfeiffer sequences, which should've been cut, the film holds its own as one of the classics of all time.
Gailard Sartain is brilliant as Bimbeaux, Robert Wuhl and Fran Drescher give the performances of their careers, and despite the boring Danza-Pfeiffer sequences, which should've been cut, the film holds its own as one of the classics of all time.
I seen Robert Wuhl in an interview and he said it will not be released on video or shown regularly (Animal House, Porky's, American Graffiti,Etc) do to copy rights on the songs used on the sound track.
Hollywood Knights is one of the funniest movies I had ever seen.
I don't think it cost millions to make but if you like the music of the mid 60's and childish pranks set back in that time and injoy classic street rods, this is the movie for you.
"Hollywood Knights" is one of my favorite all-time comedies to watch.
Today it is only worth watching for the actors and actresses who would go on to become stars in TV and film, namely Fran Drescher, Tony Danza and Michelle Pfeiffer.