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.