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The specific lines and riffs that made Mel Brooks famous (in THE PRODUCERS & BLAZING SADDLES), such as the wheelchair and the barroom brawl were taken from Curtiz' Warners output. The rest came later, when he could anything he wanted.

If it wasn't for those Michael Curtiz' films that he could parody, Mel Brooks wouldn't have had much of a career.

Yep! That's the movie. I'd forgotten that scene.

Monty Wooley was the most authentic aspect of "Night and Day" other than he was 40+ years older than the character he was supposed to be playing. But then, I like the inauthenticty and especially the potluck aspect of the whole enterprise, with all these incompatible actors and styles and ideas...

Yes, if you approach "Million Dollar Mermaid" as a biography of Annette Kellerman, "namby pamby" is a fairly rosy, not to mention kind, assessment. I think that's the reason this film has always been looked down upon historically and critically. I never liked it either, until I watched it late...

I just got MILLION DOLLAR MERMAID in the mail today. The color is so gorgeous and pristine and limpid and pure that it almost makes ROMANCE ON THE HIGH SEAS (which was my all time favorite three strip Technicolor Blu-ray until a few hours ago) seem faded and tawdry by comparison. The blues in...

Another sterling review, Mr. Harris, but, speaking of Australian accents, can you really imagine Walter Pigeon saying to Ms. Williams, "Let's have a brewskie at the barbie, mate"?