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You've Got To Walk It Like You Talk It or You'll Lose That Beat is a film of genre Drama released in USA on 19 september 1971 with Zalman King
You've Got To Walk It Like You Talk It or You'll Lose That Beat (1971)
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Add to a movie listYou've Got to Walk It Like You Talk It or You'll Lose That Beat is a 1971 comedy-drama film directed by Peter Locke. It involves a young hippie and his search for the meaning of life while in Central Park. Its soundtrack includes some of the earliest released music by Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, the duo who later formed the core of the group Steely Dan. The film also stars Richard Pryor in an early role playing his signature "wino" character, and actor/director Robert Downey Sr., father of Robert Downey Jr.
Future film director Wes Craven, then working at a New York City post-production company, made his professional feature debut as the film's editor.
Actors
Zalman King
(Carter Fields)
Allen Garfield
(Herby Moss)
Richard Pryor
(Wino)
Robert Downey Sr.
(Head of Ad Agency)
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