Movie
The Big Bus
Disaster film with a runtime of 88 minutes, released in 1976. Presented in English.
At a Glance
Synopsis
The Big Bus is set aboard a nonstop, nuclear-powered luxury bus commandeered by Joseph Bologna. Naturally, Bologna is a tortured hero with a deep dark secret (he keeps insisting he didn't eat all those passengers on his last disastrous drive). Stockard Channing and Harold Gould play the designers of the big bus, and of course they have a few skeletons in their closet. In fact, there isn't a passenger on the all-star manifest that isn't hiding something. The supporting cast features contributions by René Auberjonois (parodying his M*A*S*H role), Ned Beatty, José Ferrer, Ruth Gordon (doing a devastating send-up of Airport's Helen Hayes), Sally Kellerman, Richard Mulligan, and many others; Murphy Dunne contributes a memorable bit as a smarmy cocktail pianist. Unfortunately, The Big Bus was dumped onto the summer 1976 release schedule without fanfare by Paramount, and it sank without a trace.
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Cast
- Joseph Bologna
- Stockard Channing
- John Beck
- Ruth Gordon
- René Auberjonois
- Ned Beatty
- Bob Dishy
- José Ferrer
- Harold Gould
- Larry Hagman
- Sally Kellerman
- Richard Mulligan
- Lynn Redgrave
- Richard B. Shull
- Stuart Margolin
- Howard Hesseman
- Mary Wilcox
- Walter Brooke
- Vic Tayback
- Murphy Dunne
- Raymond Guth
- Miriam Byrd-Nethery
- Dennis Kort
- James Jeter
- Vito Scotti
- Harry Holcombe
- Selma Archerd
- Morgan Upton
- Dan Barrows
- Joe Brooks
- Richard Crystal
- David Essex
- Mickey Fox
- Judy Motulsky
- Cynthia Szigeti
- Ann Weldon
- Bert Williams
- Andrew Winner
- Carol Worthington
- Alex Brown
- Nick Pellegrino
- Harry Frazier
- Michael Phillips
- Harry Stradling Jr.
- Joel Schiller
- Lynn Stalmaster
- Lawrence J. Cohen
- Fred Freeman
- Larry Cohen
- Lee Vasque
- Marianna Elliott
- Al Overton Jr.
- Edward Warschilka
- Michael S. Phillips
- Julia Phillips
