Eating Raoul
Brief Synopsis
A Los Angeles couple discover a bizarre way to fund their new restaurant.
Cast & Crew
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Paul Bartel
Director
Mary Woronov
Mary Bland
Paul Bartel
Paul Bland
Robert Beltran
Raoul Mendoza
Susan Saiger
Doris the Dominatrix
Ed Begley Jr.
Hippy
Film Details
MPAA Rating
Genre
Comedy
Dark Comedy
Release Date
1982
Production Company
Glen Glenn Sound Company
Distribution Company
20th Century Fox; 20th Century Fox Distribution; CBS Video; Virgin Vision
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 23m
Synopsis
A straight-laced couple starts murdering obnoxious sexual swingers to realize their dream of opening a restaurant.
Director
Paul Bartel
Director
Cast
Mary Woronov
Mary Bland
Paul Bartel
Paul Bland
Robert Beltran
Raoul Mendoza
Susan Saiger
Doris the Dominatrix
Ed Begley Jr.
Hippy
Dan Barrows
Bobbie R
Richard Blackburn
James
Ralph Brannen
Paco
Hamilton Camp
Mr Peck
Buck Henry
Mr Leech
John Paragon
Sex Shop Salesman
Edie Mcclurg
Susan
Lynn Hobart
Liquor Store Customer
Richard Paul
Liquor Store Owner
Mark Woods
Holdup Man
John Shearin
Hospital Patient
Darcy Pulliam
Nurse Sheila
Ben Haller
Dewey
Robert Spero
Swinger
Vernon Demetrius
Swinger
Arlene Harris
Swinger
Buster Wilson
Swinger
Marta Fergusson
Swinger
Garry Goodrow
Drunk Swinger
Pamela Carter
Hotel Maid
Anna Mathias
Leech'S Secretary
Hanns Manship
Bank Guard
Allan Rich
Nazi Client
Billy Curtis
Little Person Client
Don Steele
Party Host
Rick Waln
Doris'S Admirer
Carol Bahoric
Robert Barron
Marla Cannalla
Tim Forsight
Irene Foster
Terrie Frankle
Carlos Gonzales
Mr Goo Goo
Chris Graver
Chuck Griffith
Mark Klein
John Langley
Myron Meisel
Mari Owens
Sheryl Pressman
F G Roddick
Ian Welch
John Landis
Man In Bank
Arlon Ober
Performer
Ira Hearshen
Performer
Michael Linn
Performer
Richard Blackburn
Michael Goodwin
Crew
Bruce Barbour
Stunts
Paul Bartel
Screenwriter
Robert Beltran
Song ("El Amante Triste")
Jonathan Beres
Song Performer ("Exactly Like You")
Richard Blackburn
Screenwriter
Richard Blackburn
Song ("Doggy King Commercial")
Richard Blackburn
Associate Producer
Richard Blackburn
Stunts
Richard Blackburn
Associate Producer
Richard Blackburn
Song
Richard Blackburn
Stunts
Richard Blackburn
Screenplay
Loma Lee Brookbank
Props
Pamela Carter
Production Coordinator
Jon Daughterty
Production Assistant
Gordon Day
Sound Rerecording
Bob Dennison
Stills (End)
Katherine Dover
Costumes
Paula Einstein
Trailer Editor
Mitchell Factor
Assistant Director
Tod Feuerman
Trailer Editor
Dorothy Fields
Song ("Exactly Like You")
Michael Goodwin
Other
Gary Graver
Camera Operator 2nd Unit (2nd Unit)
Ador Greenman
Other
Karen Grossman
Additional Photography
Rose Gurrola
Production Assistant
Ira Halberstadt
Assistant Director
Mike Hickman
Erotic Graphics
Dorothy Hungerford
Production Assistant
Anne Kimmel
Producer
Peter Knowlton
Hairstyles
Peter Knowlton
Makeup Effects
Val Kuklowsky
Sound Editor
John Landis
Assistance
Gary M Lapoten
Unit Production Manager
Gary M Lapoten
Assistant Director
Frederick Long
Song ("Devil With A Blue Dress On")
Kool Lusky
Other
Kim Maxwell
Production Assistant
Jimmy Mchugh
Song ("Exactly Like You")
Tracy Neftzger
Key Grip
John Norman
Sound Rerecording
Arlon Ober
Songs ("El Amante Triste" "Gimme That Cash Jack" "Doggy King Commercial")
Arlon Ober
Music
Frank Pope
Special Effects (Pyrotechnic)
Gideon Porath
Production Assistant
Sharron Reynolds
Script Supervisor
Anthony Santa Croce
Sound Recording
Robert Schulenberg
Production Designer
Robert Schulenberg
Main Titles
Bruce Scott
Song Performer ("Gimme That Cash Jack")
Rick Seaman
Stunts
William Stevenson
Song ("Devil With A Blue Dress On")
Denny Tedesco
Set Dresser
Gary Thieltges
Director Of Photography
Alan Toomayan
Editor
Jor Van Kline
Production Assistant
Christopher T Welch
Sound Editor
Stan Wetzel
Sound Rerecording
Gigi Williams
Additional Makeup
John Wilson
Trailer Editor
Videos
Movie Clip
Hosted Intro
Film Details
MPAA Rating
Genre
Comedy
Dark Comedy
Release Date
1982
Production Company
Glen Glenn Sound Company
Distribution Company
20th Century Fox; 20th Century Fox Distribution; CBS Video; Virgin Vision
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 23m
Articles
Eating Raoul
An L.A. couple design a bizarre way to get funding for their new restaurant.
Eating Raoul
An L.A. couple design a bizarre way to get funding for their new restaurant.
Hamilton Camp (1934-2005)
He was born October 30, 1934, in London, England. After World War II, he moved to Canada and then to Long Beach with his mother and sister, where the siblings performed in USO shows. In 1946, he made his first movie, Bedlam starring Boris Karloff as an extra (as Bobby Camp) and continued in that vein until he played Thorpe, one of Dean Stockwell's classmates in Kim (1950).
After Kim he received some more slightly prominent parts in films: a messenger boy in Titanic (1953); and a mailroom attendant in Executive Suite (1954), but overall, Camp was never a steadily working child actor.
Camp relocated to Chicago in the late '50s and rediscovered his childhood passion - music. He began playing in small clubs around the Chicago area, and he struck oil when he partnered with a New York based folk artist, Bob Gibson in 1961. The pair worked in clubs all over the midwest and they soon became known for their tight vocal harmonies and Gibson's 12-string guitar style. Late in 1961, they recorded an album - Gibson and Camp at the Gate of Horn, the Gate of Horn being the most renowned music venue in Chicago for the burgeoning folk scene. The record may have aged a bit over the years, but it is admired as an important progress in folk music by most scholars, particularly as a missing link between the classic era of Woody Guthrie and the modern singer-songwriter genre populated by Bob Dylan and Joan Baez.
Gibson and Camp would split within two years, and after recording some albums as a solo artist and a brief stint with Chicago's famed Second City improvisational comedy troupe, Camp struck out on his own to work as an actor in Los Angeles. His changed his name to Hamilton from Bob, and despite his lack of vertical presence (he stood only 5-foot-2), his boundless energy and quick wit made him handy to guest star in a string of familiar sitcoms of the late '60s: The Monkees, Bewitched, and Love, American Style. By the '70s there was no stopping him as he appeared on virtually every popular comedy of the day: The Mary Tyler Moore Show, M*A*S*H, Laverne & Shirley, Three's Company, and WKRP in Cincinnati.
Eventually, Camp's film roles improved too, and he did his best film work in the latter stages of his career: Blake Edward's undisciplined but still funny S.O.B. (1981); Paul Bartel's glorious cult comedy Eating Raoul (1982); and Clint Eastwood's jazz biopic on Charlie Parker Bird (1988). Among his recent work was a guest spot last season as a carpenter on Desperate Housewives, and his recent completion of a Las Vegas based comedy Hard Four which is currently in post-production. Camp is survived by six children and thirteen grandchildren.
by Michael T. Toole
Hamilton Camp (1934-2005)
Hamilton Camp, the diminutive yet effervescent actor and singer-songwriter, who spent nearly his entire life in show business, including several appearances in both television and films, died of a heart attack on October 2 at his Los Angeles home. He was 70.
He was born October 30, 1934, in London, England.
After World War II, he moved to Canada and then to Long Beach with his mother and sister, where the siblings performed in USO shows.
In 1946, he made his first movie, Bedlam starring Boris Karloff as an extra (as Bobby Camp) and continued in that vein until he played Thorpe, one of Dean Stockwell's classmates in Kim (1950).
After Kim he received some more slightly prominent parts in films: a messenger boy in Titanic (1953); and a mailroom attendant in Executive Suite (1954), but overall, Camp was never a steadily working child actor.
Camp relocated to Chicago in the late '50s and rediscovered his childhood passion - music. He began playing in small clubs around the Chicago area, and he struck oil when he partnered with a New York based folk artist, Bob Gibson in 1961. The pair worked in clubs all over the midwest and they soon became known for their tight vocal harmonies and Gibson's 12-string guitar style. Late in 1961, they recorded an album - Gibson and Camp at the Gate of Horn, the Gate of Horn being the most renowned music venue in Chicago for the burgeoning folk scene. The record may have aged a bit over the years, but it is admired as an important progress in folk music by most scholars, particularly as a missing link between the classic era of Woody Guthrie and the modern singer-songwriter genre populated by Bob Dylan and Joan Baez.
Gibson and Camp would split within two years, and after recording some albums as a solo artist and a brief stint with Chicago's famed Second City improvisational comedy troupe, Camp struck out on his own to work as an actor in Los Angeles. His changed his name to Hamilton from Bob, and despite his lack of vertical presence (he stood only 5-foot-2), his boundless energy and quick wit made him handy to guest star in a string of familiar sitcoms of the late '60s:
The Monkees, Bewitched, and Love, American Style. By the '70s there was no stopping him as he appeared on virtually every popular comedy of the day: The Mary Tyler Moore Show, M*A*S*H, Laverne & Shirley, Three's Company, and WKRP in Cincinnati.
Eventually, Camp's film roles improved too, and he did his best film work in the latter stages of his career:
Blake Edward's undisciplined but still funny S.O.B. (1981); Paul Bartel's glorious cult comedy Eating Raoul (1982); and Clint Eastwood's jazz biopic on Charlie Parker Bird (1988). Among his recent work was a guest spot last season as a carpenter on Desperate Housewives, and his recent completion of a Las Vegas based comedy Hard Four which is currently in post-production. Camp is survived by six children and thirteen grandchildren.
by Michael T. Toole
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Released in United States 1982
Released in United States April 1982
Released in United States July 13, 1999
Released in United States November 2006
Released in United States Winter January 1, 1982
Shown at New York Film Festival September-October 1982.
Released in USA on video.
John Landis has a bit part in the film.
Released in United States 1982 (Shown at FILMEX: Los Angeles International Film Exposition (Contemporary Cinema) March 16 - April 1, 1982.)
Released in United States 1982 (Shown at New York Film Festival September-October 1982.)
Released in United States Winter January 1, 1982
Released in United States November 2006 (Shown at AFI/Los Angeles Film Festival (20 Years of AFI Fest) November 1-12, 2006.)
Released in United States April 1982
Released in United States July 13, 1999 (Shown in Los Angeles (American Cinematheque) as part of series "The Alternative Screen: A Forum For Independent Film Exhibition and Beyond..." July 13, 1999.)
