Posted on 12/12/2020 7:13:20 PM PST by nickcarraway
Movie always reminds me of this really nice guy I used to work with that looked just like Grossberger. My friend would always quote the part about how Grossberger killed his family and then killed people that reminded him of his family.
After all these years...I still laugh thinking about it.
I prefer Silver Streak overall, but still say “We bad!” sometimes.
When Gene Wilder was entering prison and said to Richard Pryor, we are actually going to prison even though we are both totally innocent men-—and Pryor said “Welcome to the real world. And not a moment too soon.”——that comes into my mind at times such as our national election deliberately stolen by fraudsters and laughed out of court by the judges and the bragging media.
And so many times when leftists say defund the police and handle violent domestic fights involving a knife or a gun, with a social worker, reminds me of Gene Wilder saying about the serial killer “Yes, but did anyone think of just sitting down and talking with him?”
Prior and Wilder were a great comedy pair in that movie and complimented one another, great movie, lots of laugh!
Wow, I had no idea Sidney Poitier directed this. I haven’t seen it for decades.
Freegards
MY LEGS!!! I CAN’T FEEL MY LEGS!!!
I don’t remember there being a homosexual couple in that movie. They must have been so homophobic back then. There was no boobies, or full frontal nudity either. And I don’t recall a single sarcastic remark about Christians or conservatives. My how times have changed, for the worse.
A very funny movie especially the scene of Wilder in blackface, and Pryor as the straight man. “I just hope we don’t see no muslims!”
There was one homo prisoner, back when being homo was still chuckled about. He was one of the good guys and played a good role, none of this fag crap we see nowadays.
The Richy Pryor bit from one of his live stand-up movies about being at AZ State Penitentiary for the filming of the Stir Crazy movie is a must see bit. 3m26s, very much worth it.
Thank GOD we’ve got penitentiaries!
Anyone else realize that there hasn’t been a gut-busting, politically-incorrect comedy made in decades? Comedies like The Jerk, Caddyshack, etc. simply wouldn’t be made today. The closest we have had was the Hangover trilogy.
That was “Silver Streak.”
Thanks for this social justice aware article about classic rock.
I don’t think it’s social justice.
“I don’t think it’s social justice.”
The author does.
It’s only about black film directors in the context of social justice.
It’d be an interesting article otherwise.
“This plan revolves around the prison’s annual rodeo – it turns out that mild-mannered Skip is a fantastically talented bull rider – during which all the men but Grossberger escape by pretending to be spectators. Jesus and Rory head to Mexico, and once Harry and Skip hear that the real participants in the woodpecker robbery have been arrested they continue on to Hollywood, joined by their lawyer’s sister Meredith, with whom Skip has fallen in love.”
Even though they were really innocent of the bank robbery charges, skip and harry put themselves in more legal hot water because its illegal to try to escape from prison even if youre innocent of the crime for which you were originally imprisoned. Plus skip and harry aided and abetted the escape of other convicts who were truly guilty of their crimes.
What a great routine that was.
Thanks. been a while since I have seen both movies.
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