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Its also unusually long-lived, popping up again and again in cartoons, TV commercials, YouTube videos, and film soundtracks. Its one of the few rare cases where a pure novelty made it to 1 on the charts, for one thing.

With Ned Beatty, Shelley Winters, Nel Patrick Harris, Peggy Lipton, Chubby Checker, Little Richard, James Houghton, Thora Birch, John Brumfield, Molly Cheek, Kimberly McCullough, Shonda Whipple. 'The Purple People Eater' is a song written and performed by Sheb Wooley, which is the novelty song to end all novelty songs. In the post “E.T.” era, it’s possible that not even the youngest of children will be fooled or enchanted by what seems to be someone dressed up for Halloween.Ī K.Tel International release of Motion Picture Corp.

The film’s most serious handicap is the Purple People Eater creature, who seems simply like a man in a dog suit. In her directorial debut, writer Linda Shayne shows a rapport with youngsters and keeps things moving, but “Purple People Eater” (rated PG, apparently for a mild expletive) lacks shape and style. There are cameos by Chubby Checker, in performance Little Richard, as the town mayor and by Sheb Wooley, who wrote “Purple People Eater” 30 years ago, as an instructor of trapeze artists. Beatty is a warm, believable grandfather, and Winters is one of his pensioner neighbors, a nice, kindly woman terrified of rising rents and the specter of eviction. Sheb Wooleys novelty song about a one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eater with rock-star aspirations topped the pop charts for a month in the. Harris is a capable and appealing young actor, and Beatty and Shelley Winters are to be commended for their unyielding professionalism in circumstances that verge on the amateur. More important, Purple encourages Billy to form a rock band. Purple, as Billy calls him, looks like a giant sheep dog with dyed lavender hair, an eye in the center of his face and a horn protruding from his forehead. Harris’ 12-year-old Billy is a dreamy kid who, on playing his father’s old 45 of the ‘50s hit “Purple People Eater” is magically visited by the creature of the song’s title.

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Ned Beatty stars as a retiree who’s revitalized by his grandchildren (Neil Patrick Harris, Thora Birch) when they’re left in his charge by their vacationing parents (James Houghton, Peggy Lipton, one of the stars of “The Mod Squad” series). At the same time “Purple People Eater” (citywide) can’t safely be recommended to anyone over the age of 7, but it could conceivably be fun for second-graders or those younger. Me? I would have been screaming.You’d have to be Scrooge to trash a picture that tries to instill in children the importance of imagination, determination and appreciation of the elderly. How does that alien being appear? All you have to do is play his old record. That year, Judy Garland covered it, adding her own movie-monster-inspired. Other folks to look out for are Dustin Diamond and Jim Houghton, who was in Superstition and was Kenny Ward on Knots Landing.Īnyways, the story here is that the purple people eater forms a band with the kids and they end up playing shows to save old people from losing their homes from the evil Mr. Sheb Wooleys The Purple People Eater took advantage of a unique recording. They also put out Pardon My Blooperand are still around today, releasing movies like Hotel Transylvania 2. You know how not rock and roll this all is? It was a K-Tel International movie. And hey! There’s Peggy Lipton as the kid’s mom. Ned Beatty is their grandfather and Shelley Winters is his neighbor. The kids staying with their grandparents are playing by Neil Patrick Harris and Thora Birch.

And so is Little Richard, who used to scare the hell out of parents and now he’s playing the mayor in a kid film based on a novelty song and maybe that makes me a little sad.īut Flying Purple People Eater is packed with people who either were on the way down or on the way up. This is based on the Sheb Wooley song - one-eyed, one-horned, flyin’ purple people eater - and Sheb’s in here. I don’t know how director and writer Linda Shaye went from Screwballs I and II and Crystal Heart to this movie, but here we are. April 3: Rock and role - A film that stars a rock star.

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