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The Big Bus Details

1976

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Starring	Joseph Bologna, Stockard Channing, John Beck, Jose Ferrer
Director	James Frawley
Genres	Comedy

The Big Bus

A star-studded cast headlines this outlandish spoof on disaster films in which a gigantic nuclear powered bus--containing a swimming pool, a bowling alley, and a piano bar--and goes out of control and nearly crashes while making a coast-to-coast journey. With a cannibalistic driver (Joseph Bologna) and an oil company man who is working overtime to sabotage the bus, the passengers (Stockard Channing, Richard Mulligan, Ruth Gordon, Rene Auberjonois, and more) are assured a bumpy ride. Director James Frawley's (TV's The Monkees) is an obvious influence on 1980's AIRPLANE!

Starring	Joseph Bologna, Stockard Channing, John Beck, Jose Ferrer, Ned Beatty, Bob Dishy, Ruth Gordon, Harold Gould, Larry Hagman, Lynn Redgrave, Sally Kellerman, Richard Mulligan
Director	James Frawley
Studio	PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 24 mins
Certificate
Genres	Comedy
Language	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 1976 To Rent: DVD: 08 Mar 2004

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- Frawley's experience directing the Monkees serves him well in timing the one-liners which make up this engaging parody... read more on Time Out
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  Airplane on a bus !
  
  Perhaps not a movie for deep exploration of the human soul, this is a disaster movie set on a nuclear powered bus going to Denver (yup, mountain edges...) That... read more »
  
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  Not as good as you remember from when you were a kid, but what is???
  
  I loved this film when I was younger, I mean LOVED it, must have seen it 10 times by the time i was a teenager (quite a while ago, hadnt seen it in about 20 ... read more »
  
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  - 28 Aug 2008 at 11:25
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  You WERE a pig at Mount Diablo
  
  Like some other reviewers, I took this out because I'd seen it on TV over 20 years ago, and somewhere stored in a long forgotten box in the loft, I have a ... read more »
  
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  If your looking for belly laughs your not going to get them here, although you will get quite a few chuckles, other films from the same genre will give you ... read more »
  
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  - 09 Mar 2007 at 12:29
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  A star-studded cast headlines this outlandish spoof on disaster films in which a gigantic nuclear powered bus--containing a swimming pool, a bowling alley, and a piano bar--and goes out of control and nearly crashes while making a coast-to-coast journey. With a cannibalistic driver (Joseph Bologna) ...