'He did it... he lost his ego!'

WMFU's Beware of the Blog brought to our attention an insane old movie called It Takes Two To Skidoo, an Otto Preminger "comedy" that sounds like a demented sliver of weird:

An "acid comedy" with Jackie Gleason as an ex-mobster who hates hippies, Carol Channing stripping down to her underwear, Groucho Marx in his final film role as "God", a score from Harry Nilsson, an acid-tripping prison where the guards see naked football players and dancing garbage cans, and cameos from Frankie Avalon, Cesar Romero, Burgess Meredith, Mickey Rooney, Frank Gorshin, George Raft, and Slim Pickens...to name a few.

I'm embedding a YouTube clip of Gleason's acid trip, although if you follow the link through to the actual Beware of the Blog post, they're hosting their own version of the same clip with a few extra minutes tacked on to the beginning for, uh, "context." Preminger and Marx are both said to have experimented with LSD as some form of preparation for this film (Paul Krassner would later document Marx's experiment in his article "My Acid Trip with Groucho"). It's always interesting to me to see what filmmakers come up with to try to express aspects of psychedelic experiences, but honestly, the floating head of Groucho Marx on a screw would never particularly have occurred to me. If you're in the mood for more, YouTube has got huge chunks of the movie up right now; dig it!