Brilliant Mel Brooks Knocks Them Bandy In This 1975 Interview
IN 1975, Mel Brooks appeared on Imperial College’s TV station Stoic to talk about his 1975 films Blazing Saddles andYoung Frankenstein. He sat opposite Mark Caldwell. He offers the insight that cowboys “do not make love to women in Westerns”:
“People say I am in questionable taste, you know what I mean? Well, I must tell you that I used the utmost discretion [and] I did not tell the whole truth about the Western, because they do not make love to women, you know that. They are very straight, very Christian and very with it, you know. They do make love to their horses. They do, they do. They don’t marry them, there is no formal ceremony, but they go off somewhere in the night with their horses.”
On the set of Young Frankenstein in Los Angeles on April 1, 1974, the teenage directors of Life Times Nine watched Mel Brooks shoot a scene in Dr. FrankensteinÂs dungeon and Peter Boyle in green-monster makeup put a friendly strangle-hold on Marilyn Becker, 17.
Colin Grimshaw writes on this video:
You can see that I have left the original countdown clock at the front because he couldn’t resist being funny even before we had started to record.
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