Cinema: Heat Prostration

THE LAST REMAKE OF BEAU GESTE

Directed by MARTY FELDMAN Screenplay by MARTY FELDMAN and CHRIS ALLEN

What will Mel Brooks and his little band of comic brothers do when they run out of old movie genres to parody? In the course of a distinguished career in anarchy, Brooks himself has taken on the backstage musical, the western, the gothic creature feature and silent comedy. His sometime star Gene Wilder made steak-and-kidney pie of the Victorian detective romance in Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother year before last. Now we must somehow come to grips with another...

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