Friday, July 19, 2013

Desert Island Classics / Take 2


A comedy tonight.


"The General" 

  (1927/Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman)
  Buster Keaton, a railroad engine and the Civil War.
"Horse Feathers" 
  (1932/Norman Z. McLeod)
  The Marx Brothers go to college.
"Modern Times" 
  (1936/Charles Chaplin)
  Chaplin's funniest film.
"Way Out West" 
  (1937/James W. Horne)
  Laurel and Hardy out West.
"The Bank Dick" 
  (1940/Eddie Cline)
  W.C. Fields and a script by Mahatma Kane Jeeves.
"Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" 
  (1948/Charles Barton)
  They meet Dracula and the Wolf Man, too.
"Monty Python and the Holy Grail" 
  (1975/Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones)
  The moose choreography is amazing.
"Animal House" 
  (1978/John Landis)
  "Grab a brew. Don't cost nothin'."
"Airplane!" 
  (1980/Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker)
  "Guess I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue." 
"Stripes" 
  (1981/Ivan Reitman)
  Bill Murray joins the Army.