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Cold Turkey is a 1971 satirical black comedy film starring Dick Van Dyke and a long list of comedic actors. The film was written for the screen and produced by Norman Lear , who also directed the film, marking his directorial debut.
Feb 19, 1971 · Cold Turkey: Directed by Norman Lear. With Dick Van Dyke, Pippa Scott, Tom Poston, Edward Everett Horton. Hoping for positive publicity, a tobacco company offers $25 million to any American town that quits smoking for 30 days.
Aug 5, 2009 · Cold Turkey (1971) Dr. Proctor. When the entire town of Eagle Rock, Iowa gives up smoking for 30 days to win $25 million, the town doctor is one of the last holdouts and the hardest one to keep...
As part of a public relations and marketing strategy to compare the empathy of Big Tobacco to the nobility of the Nobel Peace Prize, advertising executive Merwin Wren (Newhart) convinces the Valiant Tobacco Company to propose a challenge: a tax-free check for $25,000,000 ($176.4 million today) to any city or town in America that can stop ...
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"A New Leaf" gets a little sentimental at the end, but not too much, and "Cold Turkey" ends with the scoundrels being shot by their own cigarette lighter. The movie, as everybody knows by now, concerns an attempt by a small town in Iowa to qualify for a $25 million award by signing all its citizens to a 30-day no smoking pledge.
Apr 5, 2012 · Brief Synopsis. Small-town residents try to quit smoking for a cash reward.
