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Where the Buffalo Roam

Year:

1980

Duration:

96 min

Genres:

Biography | Comedy

IMDB rate:

6.7

Director:

Art Linson

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1980-04-25

Filming Locations: Los Angeles International Airport - 1 World Way, Los Angeles, California, USA

Earnings

Opening Weekend: $1,750,593 (USA) (27 April 1980)

Gross: $6,659,377 (USA) Related Links

Cast

Actor

Character

Janit Baldwin

Peter Boyle

Lazlo

Bill Murray

Hunter S. Thompson

Bruno Kirby

Marty Lewis

Rene Auberjonois

Harris (as René Auberjonois)

R.G. Armstrong

Judge Simpson

Danny Goldman

Porter

Rafael Campos

Rojas

Leonard Frey

Desk Clerk

Leonard Gaines

Super Fan

Otis Day

Man #1 (as De Wayne Jessie)

Mark Metcalf

Dooley

Jon Shear

Billy Kramer (as Jon Matthews)

Joseph Ragno

Willins

Quinn K. Redeker

Pilot (as Quinn Redeker)

Lisa Taylor

Ruthie

Danny Tucker

Narcotics Agent

Jon Acevedo

Hippie

Phillip L. Allan

Kid #2

Lee Allen

Reporter #4

Juli Andelman

Alice

Bruce Paul Barbour

Secret Service Man #3 (as Bruce Barbour)

Marsha Bissler

Stewardess

Jack Caddin

Rojas' Man

David Castle

Long Hair Kid

Linden Chiles

Reporter #2

Suzanne Coltrin

Reporter

Caesar Cordova

Rojas' Man

Michael Cornelison

Young Reporter

Brian Cummings

Richard Nixon

Ron Cummins

Secret Service Man #1

Joshua Daniel

Questioner

Sonny Carl Davis

Stepanian (as Sonny Davis)

Richard M. Dixon

Candidate

Susan Elliot

Questioner

Suzanne Elliott

Girl #1

Les Engel

Court Clerk

Reginald Farmer

Chauffer (as Reginald H. Farmer)

Lou Felder

Sportscaster #2

Randy Glass

Rock Critic

Doris Hargrave

Hotel Waitress

Jim Healy

Sportscaster #1

Cork Hubbert

Briggs, Bell Captain

Doreen Jaros

Campaign Plane Stewardess #2

Sunny Johnson

Lil / Nurse

Susan Kellermann

Waitress

Garry Kelly

Stewardess (as Garrie Kelly)

Charles Konya

Co-pilot

Marguerite Lamar

Red Cross Nurse

Jerry Maren

Bell Man

Miles McNamara

Questioner

John Moio

Sheriff's Deputy #1

Inga Neilsen

Masseuse

Craig T. Nelson

Cop on Stand

Jessica Nelson

Cashier

Tom Oberhaus

Secret Service Man #4

Dennis O'Flaherty

Secret Service Man #2

Nancy Parsons

Head Nurse

Steven Peterman

Student in Court

Cari M. Pike

Campaign Plane Stewardess #1

Rose Portillo

Maid

Ross Reynolds

Light Plane Pilot #2

Morgan Roberts

Man #2

Dennis Robertson

Colonel

Wally Rose

Deputy Sheriff #2

Arthur Rosenberg

Hospital Administrator

Ángel Salazar

Waiter (as Angel Salazar)

Art Scholl

Light Plane Pilot #1

Richard Seff

Reporter #1

Jamie Squire

Girl #2

Michael Stepanian

Russell

Matthew Tobin

Bailiff

Harold Van Buskirk

Hitchhiker

Biff Warren

Collegiate Kid

Carol Williard

Questioner #1

Paul Willson

Page

Kenneth Wolger

Kid #1 (as Ken Wolger)

Michael Lee Gogin

Bell Man (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Peter Boyle receives first billing and Bill Murray receives second billing during the opening credits but dvd and video covers, movie posters and promotional materials tend to actually reverse the billing and feature Murray with above-the -title top billing with Boyle getting second.

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To get into character, Bill Murray spent time with Hunter S. Thompson by drinking, shooting and generally having a great time at Thompson's Colorado ranch. After filming ended, Murray continued to act "Gonzo" through the beginning of the next season of Saturday Night Live (1975), to the annoyance and consternation of cast and crew members.

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The dwarf in the hotel scene, Briggs, is the same dwarf in the Beverly Heights Hotel lounge scene in the later Hunter S. Thompson movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) that brings Duke the phone.

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Goofs

In the bathroom scene when Murray is washing his shoes out in the sink, then hits them repeatedly against the urinal to get the excess water out, he is wearing glasses but his reflection in the mirror behind the urinals isn't.

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A number of cars in the hotel parking lot at the Super Bowl were models that didn't exist in 1972.

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The plane of journalists following the 1972 campaign sports an Evergreen International label. Evergreen International Airlines was a cargo airline formed in November 1975.

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Quotes

Questioner: I was just wondering if you could tell me, um, if you thought drugs and alcohol would make me a better writer.

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Lazlo: Like a lot of people thought I was dead but, uh... hey you know you don't write any postcards when you're on the road to self-discovery.

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Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: You couldn't invent someone like Carl Lazlo. He was a... he was one of a kind. He was a mutant. A real heavyweight water buffalo type... who could chew his way through a concrete wall and spit out the other side covered with lime and chalk and look good in doing it.

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