Glorious trash but what movie buff wouldn't want to see a movie called "The Oscar" with that great actor Stephen Boyd (sic) playing a heel who's one of the five Best Actor nominees and who will do whatever it takes to win. It's a movie that comes from the same stable as "The Carpetbaggers" and "Harlow", (all Joseph E. Levine productions), and it's just as enjoyable in its 'bad-movie' way.
As well as Boyd there's an 'all-star' cast that includes Elke Sommer, Milton Berle, Eleanor Parker, Joseph Cotten, Edie Adams, Ernest Borgnine, Peter Lawford and a Carroll Baker lookalike whose character name is Cheryl Barker not to mention Tony Bennett in a 'dramatic' performance as Boyd's best friend, (he's dreadful). The screenplay, by Harlan Ellison, Clarence Greene and director Russell Rouse from a Richard Sale novel, is just one howler after another and it's hard to believe that this rubbish was itself nominated for two Oscars. Hardly ever revived but it's still a camp classic.
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