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April 24, 2025 75 mins

'Caddyshack', it turns out, is kind of a miracle of last-minute producer-led stitching together and salvaging, resulting in one of the more quotable films in comedy history.  

Hard to believe that at the time, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, and Rodney Dangerfield were not yet the massive film stars they'd become as a result of this movie.  

This episode delves into the coke-fueled nonstop party that was this film's production, a production that would contribute to the untimely death of co-writer Doug Kenney on a cliff in Hawaii where he'd gone to dry out.  Doug's death was one of the first casualties of this scene due to drugs, soon followed by John Belushi's.

 

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Watch Caddyshack:

 
 
 
More on Peters:  John Schnepp's The Death of Superman Lives: What Happened?
 
 
Chris Nashawaty's book Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story
 
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