Speech Police: ‘Blazing Saddles’ Would Never Get Made Today

Big Hollywood ^ | 03/03/2010 | by Chris Stigall

[xrmusn]

..excuse me while I whip this out...etc...
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Didn’t a couple of women in the crowd faint when he said that?

Also when the hand truck is stuck in the quicksand, they throw a rope to ‘em and as they are coming out, the boss said (somewhat close)...NO..pull the hand truck out, they cost 10bucks we can get all the n’s we want for damn near nothing..

[MoochPooch]

I like Bananas and Sleeper but that does it for me on Woody Allen.

The early Woody Allen films had more heart. The later ones were sterile and tedious. I couldn't stand the subject matter -- bunch of NY neurotic intellectuals.

[OldPossum]

You can also get “Song of the South” on DVD off of the internet. It was never released in the US but was released in England. I bought a bunch of copies a couple of years ago and gave them away as Christmas presents. The quality was great.

Thanks for the info. I'm going to get it. I can remember as a child of 8 watching this movie and was just entranced as Uncle Remus sang the song, "Zippadeedodah" (sp?.

[GSP.FAN]

Yeah me to she was a comic genius.
Mel Brooks said he wanted a woman with hot legs and did not think Madeleine legs would work until she showed him her legs..

[gigster]

"Telegram for Mongo!"

[dfwgator]

“Oh Lily, Lily, Lily, Lily, legs, Lily, Lily.”

[dfwgator]

Agreed. Sleeper especially... very funny, and Bananas.

The scenes with Howard Cosell were classic, "IT'S OVER...IT'S ALL OVER FOR EL PRESIDENTE!"

[GSP.FAN]

A wed wose. How womantic