Dear Answer Person,
I’ve heard that there was a very obscure film inspired by the song “Alice’s Restaurant” of the same name. Do you know anything about this or where I can find it?
ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: The record came out in 1967. The United Artists movie was released in 1968/9, and first appeared on the VHS market in 1984. The screenplay was written by Venable Herndon and Arthur Penn (we have a couple of copies at Lilly Library, at 792.937 H558A); Penn was also the director. Arlo starred in the movie, along with Pat Quinn, Tia Chen, James Broderick and M. Emmet Walsh. You can find details at several websites, including http://us.imdb.com/ and http://arlo.net/(!).
We don’t have the VHS (they do have it at UNC-CH, the Durham County Library and Durham Tech!), but you should be able to get it through ILL. It is also available for purchase through the usual gang of marketers.