Amazon.com essential video Mel Brooks’s directorial debut remains both a career high point and a classic show business farce. Hinging on a crafty plot premise, which in turn unleashes a joyously insane onstage spoof, The Producers is powered by a clutch of over-the-top performances, capped by the odd couple pairing of the late Zero Mostel [...]
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The Producers
Oct 15
Young Frankenstein
Sep 21
Amazon.com essential video If you were to argue that Mel Brooks’s Young Frankenstein ranks among the top-ten funniest movies of all time, nobody could reasonably dispute the claim. Spoofing classic horror in the way that Brooks’s previous film Blazing Saddles sent up classic Westerns, the movie is both a loving tribute and a raucous, irreverent [...]
There are plenty of belly laughs in The Mel Brooks Collection, an eight-disc set of most of the director-writer-actor’s best-known films. Four of them–Silent Movie, High Anxiety, To Be or Not to Be, and Robin Hood: Men with Tights–are making their debut on DVD, while a fifth, The Twelve Chairs, was briefly available as a [...]
Blazing Saddles
Jul 29
Amazon.com essential video Mel Brooks scored his first commercial hit with this raucous Western spoof starring the late Cleavon Little as the newly hired (and conspicuously black) sheriff of Rock Ridge. Sheriff Bart teams up with deputy Jim (Gene Wilder) to foil the railroad-building scheme of the nefarious Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman). The simple plot [...]
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This is a scene from the movie Stir Crazy starring Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor, two of my favorite comedians. Wilder and Pryor are the comedic ancestors of comedians like Chris Rock, Lewis Black, Jack Black, and Jon Stewart. In the 1970′s, Wilder began working on a script he called Young Frankenstein. After he wrote [...]
