Films featuring
Slim Pickens

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

Thursday, May 5th, 2011

Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!

Stanley Kubrick’s acid-soaked absurdist farce about the end of the world has to stand alone among the genre of cold war films in the same way that 2001: A Space Odyssey stands alone among science-fiction films. (more…)

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Blazing Saddles (1974)

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

Then one day I hear “Reach for it, mister.” I spun around, and there I was standing face to face with a six year old kid. Well, I just laid down my guns and walked away. Little bastard shot me in the ass.

Musicals use their plot as a connector between songs. Porn films used plot, back when they had one, to connect the sex scenes. Similarly, Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles uses what plot it has as a framework upon which to hang a non-stop barrage of sight-gags, puns and just plain jokes, most of them very funny.

Blazing Saddles

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Director:  | Released:  | 93 min. | Rated:  | Genres: