Best comedies of the Seventies
antipos...@my-deja.com
Hospital"? Remember John Belushi's scene stealing moments as Blutto in
"Animal House" (Toga Party, Food Fight)? Woody Allen's neurotic romantic
comedies? message comedies like "Mash" and "The Last Detail"? John
Waters's uniquely demented cinematic sensibilities as expressed in such
classics as "Pink Flamingoes"? Mel Brooks' genre parodies?
Here's my list of best comedies, year by year, of the 70s. Remember
seeing these on the big screen?
1970:
Mash (honorable mention: Brewster McCloud, Start the Revolution Without
Me)
1971:
Harold and Maude (honorable mention: Bananas, The Hospital)
1972:
Pink Flamingoes (honorable mention: Play it Again Sam, The Ruling Class,
The Heartbreak Kid)
1973:
American Graffiti (honorable mention: The Last Detail, Sleeper)
1974:
Blazing Saddles (honorable mention: Young Frankenstein, The Front Page,
Freebie and the Bean)
1975:
Smile (honorable mention: Female Trouble, Love & Death, Shampoo, The
Sunshine Boys)
1976:
The Front (honorable mention: The Bad News Bears, Car Wash, Silver
Streak, Next Stop - Greenwich Village, The Gumball Rally)
1977:
Annie Hall (honorable mention: Desperate Living, The Goodbye Girl,
Kentucky Fried Movie, Slapshot)
1978:
Animal House (honorable mention: California Suite, Cheech and Chong's Up
In Smoke, Heaven Can Wait)
1979:
Being There (honorable mention: Richard Pryor Live in Concert, Real
Life, North Dallas Forty, Manhattan, The Jerk)
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Dixon Hayes
1970
M*A*S*H (runner-up: Little Big Man)
1971
Harold and Maude
1972
Play It Again Sam
1973
American Graffiti
1974
Young Frankenstein (honorable mention: Blazing Saddles)
1975
The Sunshine Boys
1976
Bad News Bears (honorable mention: Murder By Death, Silver Streak)
1977
Annie Hall
1978
Heaven Can Wait (honorable mention: Animal House)
1979
Breaking Away (honorable mention: Being There, Going in Style)
1980 (just for the heck of it)
Airplane! (honorable mention: 9 To 5, Stir Crazy)
Dixon
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antipos...@my-deja.com wrote:
> Remember the twisted black humor of "Harold and Maude" and "The
> Hospital"? Remember John Belushi's scene stealing moments as Blutto in
> "Animal House" (Toga Party, Food Fight)? Woody Allen's neurotic romantic
> comedies? message comedies like "Mash" and "The Last Detail"? John
> Waters's uniquely demented cinematic sensibilities as expressed in such
> classics as "Pink Flamingoes"? Mel Brooks' genre parodies?
>
> Here's my list of best comedies, year by year, of the 70s. Remember
> seeing these on the big screen?
>
> 1970:
>
> Mash (honorable mention: Brewster McCloud, Start the Revolution Without
> Me)
> Mash is the only one I know....too young I guess :)
> 1971:
>
> Harold and Maude (honorable mention: Bananas, The Hospital)
> still too young...
> 1972:
>
> Pink Flamingoes (honorable mention: Play it Again Sam, The Ruling Class,
> The Heartbreak Kid)
> Play it Again Sam
> 1973:
>
> American Graffiti (honorable mention: The Last Detail, Sleeper)
> I loved American Graffiti---Richard Dreyfus was so young!
> 1974:
>
> Blazing Saddles (honorable mention: Young Frankenstein, The Front Page,
> Freebie and the Bean)
> Young Frankenstein...for some reason I didn't like Blazing Saddles even
> though everyone was raving about it
> 1975:
>
> Smile (honorable mention: Female Trouble, Love & Death, Shampoo, The
> Sunshine Boys)
> The Sunshine Boys
> 1976:
>
> The Front (honorable mention: The Bad News Bears, Car Wash, Silver
> Streak, Next Stop - Greenwich Village, The Gumball Rally)
> Not sure
> 1977:
>
> Annie Hall (honorable mention: Desperate Living, The Goodbye Girl,
> Kentucky Fried Movie, Slapshot)
> The Goodbye Girl
> 1978:
>
> Animal House (honorable mention: California Suite, Cheech and Chong's Up
> In Smoke, Heaven Can Wait)
> Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke
> 1979:
>
> Being There (honorable mention: Richard Pryor Live in Concert, Real
> Life, North Dallas Forty, Manhattan, The Jerk)
> The Jerk
>
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induhvidual wrote:
>> 1979:
>>
>> Being There (honorable mention: Richard Pryor Live in Concert, Real
>> Life, North Dallas Forty, Manhattan, The Jerk)
1979 was also the year for Starting Over, one of my all-time faves.
Burt Reynold's best performance ever. Candace was great also. This
and Being There and The Jerk are all in my top ten comedies (a list
headed by Annie Hall, one can find the answer to almost any question
in that film).
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Sandy
>> though everyone was raving about it
OMG, I thought that was THE funniest movie!! I love that part where Harvey
Korman goes into his sinister hysterical laugh....the chokes on a sour
ball....LOL!! I love comedy like that!
Sandy
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Class of 78
Molly Fanton
Feldman were at their finest. My favorite quote is:
Igor: It could be worse.
Frederick: How?
Igor: It could be raining. *thunder and downpour*
I don't know why I love that part, but it makes me laugh every time. I've seen
this movie so many times I know it by heart.
Molly
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Cloris Leachman's character by name - "Frau Blucher," a horse would
neigh. Apparently, "Blucher" means glue!
I also liked Marty Feldman and his humpback, with the ever shifting
hump.
Great stuff!
In article <3A159D7A...@worldnet.att.net>,
#1 Tiger Fan
induhvidual wrote:
>You know what I thought was hysterical: Everytime someone would address
>Cloris Leachman's character by name - "Frau Blucher," a horse would
>neigh. Apparently, "Blucher" means glue!
I always thought it was more of a Catherine The Great-type of thing.
Beatlfilms
>You know what I thought was hysterical: Everytime someone would address
>Cloris Leachman's character by name - "Frau Blucher," a horse would
>neigh. Apparently, "Blucher" means glue!
>
>I also liked Marty Feldman and his humpback, with the ever shifting
>hump.
>
>Great stuff!
Dr. Frankenstein: Igor, would you give me a hand with the bags?
Igor: Certainly, you take the blonde and I'll take the one in the turban!
That movie never gets old!
Shawn
Dixon Hayes
>Igor: Certainly, you take the blonde and I'll take the one in the turban!
What always cracked me up was the scene in which Dr. Frankenstein introduces
his creation to his colleagues...then both put on tuxedos and sing/dance to
"Putting on the Ritz."
redace
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>antipos...@my-deja.com said:
>
>>You know what I thought was hysterical: Everytime someone would
address
>>Cloris Leachman's character by name - "Frau Blucher," a horse would
>>neigh. Apparently, "Blucher" means glue!
>>
>>I also liked Marty Feldman and his humpback, with the ever shifting
>>hump.
>>
>>Great stuff!
>
>Igor: Certainly, you take the blonde and I'll take the one in the
turban!
>
>
Dr.Frankenstein: "That's Frahnkenshteen" (written phonetically)
or
Dr.Frankenstein: "Lishen_to_me_very_carefully.
DO_NOT_put_the_candle_back!"
Lori =^.^=
LizzieZ
>Igor: Certainly, you take the blonde and I'll take the one in the turban!
That line was actually improvised by Marty Feldman. Watch them try their
darnedest to keep from laughing at that point. This is probably my favorite
comedy of the 70s, and the first movie I practically memorized. So many
positively brilliant lines....!
Some favorites:
"Ovaltine?"
"Well, they were wrong then, weren't they!"
"You made a yummy sound."
"Could be worse -- could be raining."
"Werewolf. There. There castle."
"Put -- the candle -- back!"
"Abbie. Abbie someone..."
(An aside... I saw a license plate with the following on it -- ABY NRML.
Totally cracked me up! And when I got my car I really wanted to get FR BLCHR
but couldn't justify the extra 75 bucks...)
Liz
Molly Fanton
always flashback to that scene. And when you get me, my sister and brother
together watch out, we can do that whole scene. It's so funny.
Molly
Jeff Troutman
> >Dr. Frankenstein: Igor, would you give me a hand with the bags?
> >Igor: Certainly, you take the blonde and I'll take the one in the turban!
>
introduces
> his creation to his colleagues...then both put on tuxedos and sing/dance
to
> "Putting on the Ritz."
>
Oh my, yes. That was one of those jaw-dropping, "What the hell" bits that
take you totally by surprise. Mel was great for that.
Jeff Troutman