Mel Brooks, 86, was celebrated by the American Film Institute this month for his incredible contribution to the film industry as a writer, producer and director.
During the early 1940s, there was a proliferation of religious films. These weren't the Biblical epics that would dominate the box office in the 1950s.
They must have been smoking a lot of marijuana when they made this, any person would think upon their first viewing of The Beatles' 1965 film HELP! and essentially, it's the truth.
It's amazing how differently you can make a prison escape movie. You can make something as explosive as Brute Force or as spiritual as The Shawshank Redemption.
