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A quintessential 1970s movie: ‘Cold Turkey’ (1971)

January 2, 2015 By Kathy Shaidle

(Norman Lear again…)

As I’ve written elsewhere, one major theme of the 1970s was “We’re horribly broke and will do anything for money”:

Turn our losing hockey team into winners by hiring crowd-pleasing goons; forging Howard Hugh’s will; becoming professional rollerskaters; or just take up old fashioned robbery, gambling and con artistry.

Plus Cold Turkey features THREE assassinations! Take that, Nashville!

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