The Happening (1967 film)

Infobox_Film
name = The Happening


caption = Theatrical release poster
director = Elliot Silverstein
writer = Frank R. Pierson
James O. Buchanan
Ronald Austin.
starring = Anthony Quinn
Michael Parks
George Maharis
Faye Dunaway
Robert Walker Jr.
producer = Jud Kinberg
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = March 1967
runtime = 101 min.
language = English | country = United States|

budget = N/A
imdb_id = 0061748

"The Happening" is a 1967 American comedy film starring Anthony Quinn, Michael Parks, George Maharis, Faye Dunaway, Robert Walker Jr. and released in March 1967 by Columbia Pictures. The film, produced by Jud Kinberg and directed by Elliot Silverstein, is about four hippies who kidnap a retired Mafia mob boss named Roc Delmonico (Quinn) and hold him for ransom. When none of his friends or family members will pay the ransom, Delmonico takes charge of his own kidnapping. Attempting to blackmail his relatives and associates, he raises his own ransom to three million dollars and demands that it be paid.

The movie is an anti-establishment film which questions the values of Middle America and the older generation. In this story, an important, influential, and rich man is stunned to learn no one will help him out of trouble, so his life is essentially worthless.

Title song

Only a minor success as a film, "The Happening" is most notable today both as one of Faye Dunaway's earliest films and for its self-titled theme song. Recorded by The Supremes with Diana Ross on lead vocal, "The Happening" became a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 when released as a single on the Motown label. Another music piece, "The Fuzz" was used by several local area TV news programs in the United States and Canada in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and is still used by Brazil's Rede Globo national newscast "Jornal Nacional".

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