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22 October 1976 (West Germany) moreTagline:
Join the passengers on The Big Bus - the craziest spoof movie of them all morePlot:
The ultimate disaster film parody. A nuclear powered bus is going Non-stop from New York to Denver and... more | add synopsisAwards:
1 win moreUser Comments:
Dumb fun! moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Joseph Bologna | ... | Dan Torrance |
 | Stockard Channing | ... | Kitty Baxter |
 | John Beck | ... | Shoulders O'Brien |
 | Rene Auberjonois | ... | Father Kudos |
 | Ned Beatty | ... | Shorty Scotty |
| Bob Dishy | ... | Dr. Kurtz |
| José Ferrer | ... | Ironman |
 | Ruth Gordon | ... | Old Woman |
 | Harold Gould | ... | Professor Baxter |
 | Larry Hagman | ... | Doctor in parking lot |
| Sally Kellerman | ... | Sybil Crane |
 | Richard Mulligan | ... | Claude Crane |
 | Lynn Redgrave | ... | Camille Levy |
| Richard B. Shull | ... | Emery Bush |
| Stuart Margolin | ... | Alex |
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88 minCountry:
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2.35 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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Singapore:PG | Netherlands:AL (orginal rating) | Finland:S | USA:PG | Australia:PG | Argentina:AtpMOVIEmeter: 
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On the news van that appears near the beginning of the film, the call letters are WZAZ. These call letters also appear in many comedies from what's known as the "ZAZ" team--Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker--though they had nothing to do with this film. See Airplane! (1980). moreGoofs:
Errors in geography: During the entire trip from New York to Denver, the only scenery we see is that along mountain roads east of Los Angeles. moreSoundtrack:
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How marvelous that this has just come out on DVD! This movie has been a fave since I was but a lad. It predates "Airplane" by about 4 years, and is about 4 times funnier, but inexplicably bombed at the box office. Guess it was ahead of its time.
The funniest bit is the lounge piano player with his "Six months to live" and "Doggy doctor" improvisations, and how he welcomes new patrons into the bar with "Hey, welcome to the Oriental Lounge!" accompanied by a little piano twinkle.
So it isn't "Citizen Kane" ... but the laughs are bigger!