- Waiting behind America's bankruptcy is a buyout by the United Hebrab Republic, a merged Israel-and-Arab-states petro-power whose emissaries conspire with a traitorous presidential adviser to purchase the foreclosed country; the joke plays Middle Easterners as oil-rich predators circling a desperate America.
Americathon (1979)
film · 1979 film directed by Neal Israel
- Director
- Neal Israel
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 86 min
- Distributor
- UA
- Genre
- comedy film, retrofuturism
- Cast
- Harvey Korman, John Ritter
- Production notes
- S, SP, D: Neil Israel