Posts Tagged ‘railroad-hand-car’

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Music
Countries: France | UK | USA
Actors: Clooney, George | Hunter, Holly | Turturro, John | Root, Stephen | Goodman, John | Durning, Charles
Directors: Coen, Joel
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Loosely based on Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ the movie deals with the grotesque adventures of Everett Ulysses McGill and his companions Delmar and Pete in 1930s Mississipi. Sprung from a chain gang and trying to reach Everetts home to recover the buried loot of a bank heist they are confronted by a series of strange characters. Among them sirens, a cyclops, bankrobber George ‘Babyface’ Nelson (very annoyed by that nickname), a campaigning Governor, his opponent, a KKK lynch mob, and a blind prophet, who warns the trio that “the treasure you seek shall not be the treasure you find.”

Blazing Saddles (1974)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Little, Cleavon | Wilder, Gene | Pickens, Slim | Huddleston, David | Dunn, Liam | Karras, Alex | Hillerman, John | Furth, George | Starrett, Jack | Korman, Harvey | Kahn, Madeline | Arthur, Carol | Collier, Richard | McGregor, Charles
Directors: Brooks, Mel
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The Ultimate Western Spoof. A town where everyone seems to be named Johnson is in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, Hedley Lemar, a politically connected nasty person, sends in his henchmen to make the town unlivable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor. Hedley convinces him to send the town the first Black sheriff in the west. Bart is a sophisticated urbanite who will have some difficulty winning over the townspeople.