The Mel Brooks classic Young Frankenstein turns 50 this month. Here are 12 stories of how it came alive.... alive! Cleavon Little (L) and Gene Wilder in Blazing Saddles. Warner Bros. Brooks ...

As well as generating some of the biggest laughs in the history of the silver screen, Brooks has also courted his fair share of controversy. Blazing Saddles was nearly buried by Warner Bros because ...

The Mel Brooks classic Young Frankenstein turns 50 this month. Here are 12 stories of how it came alive…. alive! Cleavon Little (L) and Gene Wilder in Blazing Saddles. Warner Bros. Brooks, who turned ...

Whether referencing the scientist or the monster, Frankenstein is a pop culture staple. Usually a figure of horror, Mel Brooks managed to turn him into a figure of comedy. Young Frankenstein ...

with Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder ending the year with not one, but two films in the top five. Ten months after the release of "Blazing Saddles," the duo had another hit with "Young Frankenstein ...

The comedy is not exactly subtle, but it’s subtler and stronger than that in many Mel Brooks movies. It’s also some masterful filmmaking — Young Frankenstein even used props from the old ...

Take “Young Frankenstein”: It lacks any explicitly ... Similarly, take what might just be my favorite Mel Brooks scene of all time, courtesy of “Blazing Saddles” (see below).

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