The FRiday Night Movie - Evil Roy Slade (1972)

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[DemforBush]

A childhood favorite tonight. John Astin stars in this western spoof about the mean, rotten, no good, and hilarious villain Evil Roy Slade. Directed by Jerry Paris, and co-starring Mickey Rooney, Dick Shawn, Milton Berle, and Dom Deluise.

[DemforBush]

Just loved this one as a kid. It's a little corny in places, but Astin still cracks me up. Refreshingly non-politically correct, too. Almost a G-rated Blazing Saddles in a couple of places. 7/10.

[Excellence]

Never heard of it until now. Thanks.

[DemforBush]

Previous offerings:

The Stranger7/10

Decision Before Dawn7.5/10

The Woman in the Window8/10

Plunder Road6.75/10

The Hitch-Hiker7/10

The Big Heat8.5/10 (Now blocked by youtube)

Stalag 178/10

The Enemy Below7.5/10.

Kiss of Death7.25/10

The Killers8.0/10

Stagecoach8.25/10

DOA7.5/10

Breaker Morant8.5/10

Detour7/10

The Flim-Flam Man7/10

Stalingrad7.7/10

Sleuth8/10

[DemforBush]

ping.

[CyberAnt]

This month Hallmark has released their usual Christmas movies.

I don’t always like all of them, but this year, there is ONE new one (just released) that is really unique. So unique, in fact, that I have saved it and continue to replay it over and over.

Movie: “Angels and Ornaments”. It has an original song in it which is very haunting .. so haunting that I find myself humming it while I’m doing other things around my house. An angel is sent to earth to bring a couple together .. and he has his work cut out for him. But, there’s a clever twist to this “angel” story - very unusual twist.

So, I highly recommend it. Hallmark usually plays these movies several times, giving several opportunities to view them.

I’d be happy to hear from anybody who watches this movie.

[ansel12]

I had a friend like him, that scene when he starts trying to remove all of his concealed weapons was like watching my buddy, the movie cracks me up.

[Aarchaeus]

Most hilarious western I’ve EVER seen!

[EEGator]

Not as cool as Big Jim Slade...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ96dy93mP0

[greene66]

Wild and wacky comedy, almost in the old-time vein of anarchic, surreal 1930s comedy. Owing to its tv-movie status, and the time-period it was made, it probably never really got the credit it deserved. But it’s a beautifully insane gem. The only real flaw I recall is that it went on just a little bit too long. You can’t maintain ‘wacky’ for too long. If its running time was more like 75 minutes, it would have really perfect.

In all honesty, I’ve actually long prefered “Evil Roy Slade” to “Blazing Saddles.” And “Slade” was even first.

[Hugin]

I saw that about 40 years ago. Silly but funny. I mainly remember the scene where he goes to a fancy party back east with a string quartet playing. He holds a gun to the cello players head and tells him, “Play that fiddle right, there’s ladies present!”

[Keltik]

Evil Roy Slade is actually two hour long TV pilots edited together. The character of ERS originated in a 1967 sitcom pilot titled “Sheriff Who?”. Its premise was a new sheriff is hired every week, and then driven out of town by the resident bad man, ERS (Astin). The sheriff in the pilot, “The fastest interior decorator in the west”, is played by guest star Dick Shawn. I’ve never seen it, and as far as I know it has not been seen publicly since it was aired in September 1967.

Apparently at least one other “Sheriff Who?” episode was shot, as a photo exists of Astin in character with Jerry Lewis (presumably that episode’s guest sheriff).

[henkster]

I have this on DVD, one of my all time favorites.

“There better be a stick of dynamite on page 12!”

“Never trust a pretty girl, or a lonely midget.”

“If you had six apple and your neighbor took three of them, what would you have?”
“A dead neighbor and all my apples.”

[lapsus calami]

 

 

 

You ain't one of them funny boys, are ya?

 

 

[Keltik]

Evil Roy Slade is actually two hour long TV pilots edited together. The character of ERS originated in a 1967 sitcom pilot titled “Sheriff Who?”. Its premise was a new sheriff is hired every week, and then driven out of town by the resident bad man, ERS (Astin). The sheriff in the pilot, “The fastest interior decorator in the west”, is played by guest star Dick Shawn. I’ve never seen it, and as far as I know it has not been seen publicly since it was aired in September 1967.

Apparently at least one other “Sheriff Who?” episode was shot, as a photo exists of Astin in character with Jerry Lewis (presumably that episode’s guest sheriff).

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Greatest. Movie. Ever.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

“Look, boss! Midgets!”
“Aim for their little hearts.”

I might look for the DVD myself.

[DemforBush]

I also feel it was just a little too long. To be honest, I thought it started to weaken a bit when Dick Shawn’s character (Marshall Bell) was brought in. Shawn was a talented actor, but I just didn’t find his character as funny as most of the others in the movie.

Probably my favorite line in the movie was the bit where Astin browbeats his accountant about “Getting a full hat”. It’s so unexpected and out there, but at the same time so earnest, I crack up every single time.

[Silentgypsy]

Thank you!