Ramis cast Candy as Laskey the Guard after working with him on SCTV, Canada’s version of Saturday Night Live and had him play the character as a relative of his Paul Fistinyourface from the show. The ending was rewritten and reshot with a very much taller Anthony Michael Hall after being what Hughes described as ‘thoroughly despised by preview audiences’. But Ramis and Chase rewrote Hughes’s screenplay to shift the focus from the teenagers to the parents. It was originally conceived as a raunchier R-rated comedy targeting young adults. The screenplay is based on Hughes’s short story Vacation 58, which appeared in the September 1979 issue of National Lampoon. John Candy was paid $1 million for his brief appearance at the end of the movie.
Also in the cast are Imogene Coca as mean old Aunt Edna, Randy Quaid, John Candy, Christie Brinkley, Eugene Levy, James Keach, Jane Krakowski, Frank McRae, Miriam Flynn and Brian Doyle-Murray. The movie, however, is a surprisingly successful black farce, with plenty of big laughs, in the screenplay by John Hughes (based on his short story), some of them quite cruel. And then the journey becomes just one catastrophe after another. Clark falls asleep at the wheel and the car goes hilariously out of control. He takes along with him his wife Ellen (Beverly D’Angelo) and children Rusty and Audrey (Anthony Michael Hall and Dana Barron).
EDDIE BRACKEN LOOKS LIKE WALT DISNEY MOVIE
National Lampoon’s Vacation **** (1983, Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, Anthony Michael Hall, Dana Barron, Imogene Coca, Eddie Bracken) – Classic Movie Review 2763ĭirector Harold Ramis’s 1983 comedy stars Chevy Chase as inventor Clark Griswold, who takes a vacation across America from the family home in Chicago to California’s famous ‘Walley World’ theme park, named after Eddie Bracken’s thin m0ustached character Roy Walley in a parody of Disneyland (with Roy Walley a combination of brothers Roy and Walt Disney).
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