Another week and yet another movie photo from my personnel collection. I have written about the busty actress Robyn Hilton before, mainly because most movie fans knew her by look and not by name and let's be honest, it is hard not to notice her in Blazing Saddles. As I noted in my previous article Hilton had a few bit parts in mainstream movies but ended up having to star in some rather racy films to make a living. In the mid 80s she starred in her last film and virtually disappeared.
Blazing Saddles is one in a long line of Mel Brook's masterful comedy outings that include Young Frankenstein, History of the World: Part 1 and Spaceballs.
In this satirical take on Westerns, crafty railroad worker Bart (Cleavon Little) becomes the first black sheriff of Rock Ridge, a frontier town about to be destroyed in order to make way for a new railroad. Initially, the people of Rock Ridge harbor a racial bias toward their new leader. However, they warm to him after realizing that Bart and his perpetually drunk gunfighter friend (Gene Wilder) are the only defense against a wave of thugs sent to rid the town of its population. - Warner BrosSong of Solomon 4:7 - “You are altogether beautiful, my darling; there is no flaw in you.”
Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) and Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen) interact during a fiery reunion between old flames in Paramount Pictures release Raiders of the Lost Ark. Ravenwood is in possession of the item Jones needs to locate the famed biblical relic that allegedly holds great power. He must acquire it quickly because Nazi agents aren't far behind. - READ MORE
Theodora, a Roman courtesan and former slave girl, marries the Roman emperor Justinian and assumes the throne as Empress of Rome. But the divide between nobility and slave is too great. Theodora seeks justice for her people, and revolution and armed conflict erupt in both Byzantium and Rome. - READ MORE
History has taught us that being gunslinger in the American west was hard. If you were good with a gun you probably earned a reputation and other cow punchers with an ego to feed would seek you out to test their skills against yours. It was a risky profession to have, in each encounter on a dusty street in the middle of a frontier town - READ MORE
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