Saturday, October 26 11:30am
Monday, October 28 7pm
“Mel Brooks” and “refined” usually don’t appear in the same sentence, but paying homage to the Universal horror universe provided an elegant monochrome frame to elevate his Borscht Belt shtick. A murderer’s row of ‘70s cinema second bananas—Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Kenneth Mars, Marty Feldman, Terri Garr, and Peter Boyle—bring their best, but Gene Wilder and his atomic-clock timing rule them all. -Lee Gardner
1974 Mel Brooks 1.85:1 B&W DCP 106 min.
