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Ishtar
(May, 1987)
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (OOP)
(Ross, 1976)
The Devils
(Russell, 1974)
The Pirates of Penzance
(Papp/Leach, 1983)
The Fortune
(Nichols, 1975)
-30-
(Webb, 1959)
Betrayal
(Jones, 1983)
Play It As It Lays
(Perry, 1972)
The Outfit
(Flynn, 1973)
Alex in Wonderland
(Mazursky, 1969)
The Legend of Lylah Clare
(Aldrich, 1968)
In The Cool of the Day
(Stevens, 1963)
That Cold Day in the Park
(Altman, 1969)
Thumb Trippin'
(Masters, 1972)
Midas Run
(Kjellin, 1969)
At Long Last Love
(Bogdanovich, 1973)
Brewster McCloud
(Altman, 1972)
Outcast of the Islands
(Reed, 1951)

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1930's-1950's
The Moon's Our Home
(Seiter, 1936)
Sh! The Octopus
(McGann, 1937)
The Mating Season
(Leisen, 1951)
Bad for Each Other
(Rapper, 1953)
The Phenix City Story
(Karlson, 1955)
Run of the Arrow
(Fuller, 1956)
House of Secrets
(Green, 1956)
Saint Joan
(Preminger, 1957)
Macabre
(Castle, 1958)
The Fiend Who Walked the West
(G. Douglas, 1958
Five Gates to Hell
(Clavell, 1959)
1960's
Key Witness
(Karlson, 1960)
Summer and Smoke
(Glenville, 1961)
The Chapman Report
(Cukor,1962)
Bachelor Flat
(Tashlin, 1962) [on Hulu]
The L Shaped Room
(Forbes, 1963)
The Chalk Garden
(Neame, 1964)
A Thousand Clowns
(Coe, 1965)
You're a Big Boy Now
(Coppola, 1966)
The Whisperers
(Forbes, 1967)
Dark of the Sun
(Cardiff, 1968)
Skidoo
(Preminger, 1968)
Last Summer
(Perry, 1969)
The Comic
(C. Reiner, 1969)
1970-1974
The Revolutionary
(Williams, 1970)
The Landlord
(Ashby, 1970)
Diary of a Mad Housewife
(Perry, 1970)
Tropic of Cancer
(Strick, 1970)
I Never Sang for My Father
(Cates, 1970)
Sometimes a Great Notion
(Newman, 1971)
Marriage of a Young Stockbroker
(Turman, 1971)
The Music Lovers
(Russell, 1971)
Drive, He Said
(Nicholson, 1971)
The Steagle
(Sylbert, 1971)
The Last Movie
(Hopper, 1971)
Made For Each Other
(Bean, 1971)
The Day the Clown Cried
(Lewis, 1972)
Hickey & Boggs (OOP)
(Culp, 1972)
The Carey Treatment
(Edwards, 1972)
Pete 'n' Tillie
(Ritt, 1972)
Slither
(Zieff, 1973)
Man on a Swing
(Perry, 1974)
Open Season
(Collinson, 1974)
The Tamarind Seed
(Edwards, 1974)
Law and Disorder
(Passer, 1974)
Homebodies
(Yust, 1974)
Stardust
(Apted, 1974)
Celine and Julie Go Boating
(Rivette, 1974)
1975-1979
Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins
(Richards, 1975
At Long Last Love
(Bogdanovich, 1975)
Hearts of the West
(Zieff, 1975)
Welcome to L.A.
(Rudolph, 1976)
W.C. Fields and Me
(Hiller, 1976)
Citizens Band
(Demme, 1977)
Twilight's Last Gleaming
(Aldrich, 1977)
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
(Brooks, 1977)
Girlfriends
(Weill, 1978)
Movie Movie
(Donen, 1978)
The Medusa Touch
(Gold, 1978)
American Hot Wax
(Mutrux, 1978)
Hot Stuff
(DeLuise, 1979)
Scavenger Hunt
(Schultz , 1979)
Players
(Harvey, 1979)
Rich Kids
(Young, 1979)
Nightwing
(Hiller, 1979)
Screams of a Winter's Night
(Wilson, 1979
When You Comin' Back Red Ryder?
(Katselas, 1979
1980's
Resurrection
(Petrie, 1980)
The Awakening
(Newell, 1980)
Simon
(Brickman, 1980)
God's Angry Man
(Herzog, 1980)
Fast-Walking
(Harris, 1982)
Twice Upon a Time
(Korty & Swenson, 1983)
Trouble in Mind
(Rudolph, 1985)
When the Wind Blows
(Murikami, 1986)
Housekeeping
(Forsyth, 1987)
The Glass Menagerie
(Newman, 1987)
Patty Hearst
(Schrader, 1988)
Drowning by Numbers
(Greenaway, 1988)
Haunted Summer
(Passer, 1988)
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
(Spheeris, 1988)
1990's
Old Times
(Curtis, 1991)
Prospero's Books
(Greenaway, 1991)
City of Hope
(Sayles, 1991)
The Baby of Macon
(Greenaway, 1993)
King of the Hill
(Soderbergh, 1993)
Dadetown
(Hexter, 1995)
SubUrbia
(Linklater, 1997)

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My favorite Dom DeLuise moment -- the funniest, I mean -- is the most appalling in terms of homophobic attitudes. It's the "French mistake" dance scene, of course, in Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles ('74). "Wrong!!!....watch me faggot!...sounds like steam escaping." Sorry but it's funny. Brooks is the principal offender, of course -- DeLuise just went with it. Brilliantly. His end came last night in Santa Barbara. He was 75. We all have the time that we have, and then we don't.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on May 5, 2009 at 11:21 AM

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MilkMan says ...

Dom DeLuise had no business living to 75 years old. Incredible. He is a lucky man. I bet he had a very warm and loving life. Bye-bye, Dom.

Posted by MilkMan at May 5, 2009 11:53 AM

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Rich S. says ...

Hey, if you're talking appalling and homophobic, you can't forget his Nero scene in History of the World Part 1:

http://tinyurl.com/ca8fv3

"Here, wash this."

Posted by Rich S. at May 5, 2009 12:19 PM

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DavidF says ...

IF not for his fortuitous run in with Kermit, the Muppets never would have met and made it Hollywood....I can't imagine living in a world where this never happened.

Posted by DavidF at May 5, 2009 12:35 PM

comment #4

bmcintire says ...

Dom Deluise = a genuinely nice and funny man (who will be missed).
Dom Deluise in a Mel Brooks' film = a genuinely nice and funny man trapped in an agonizingly unfunny sub-Borscht Belt torture parade. And that's without touching the bigotry aspect.

Posted by bmcintire at May 5, 2009 1:05 PM

comment #5

Billy Joel says ...

Mel Brooks is the funniest man alive. Case closed.

Rest in Peace Dom.

Posted by Billy Joel at May 5, 2009 1:20 PM

comment #6

BurmaShave says ...

Rich S. that is such a bizarre scene I always forget.

Posted by BurmaShave at May 5, 2009 1:38 PM

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Rich S. says ...

Burma, if for nothing else, that scene should be remembered as (hopefully) the only time that Mel Brooks, Dom DeLuise, Shecky Greene, Madeline Kahn, Howard "Ernest T. Bass" Morris and Dena "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature" Dietrich all shared the same stage. It doesn't get much more bizarre than that.

Posted by Rich S. at May 5, 2009 1:43 PM

comment #8

arnold stang says ...

I always felt DeLuise was best in THE TWELVE CHAIRS - he stole the movie (and some chairs too).

Good night funnyman.

Rich S, for bizarre how about the cast, director and writer of HOT STUFF have all passed recently..DeLuise, Donald Westlake, Jerry Reed, Suzanne Pleshette...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olZUwopHKkU

Posted by arnold stang at May 5, 2009 2:55 PM

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Terry McCarty says ...

There's also De Luise's funny-madman turn for Burt Reynolds-as-director in THE END.

Posted by Terry McCarty at May 5, 2009 3:10 PM

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Joe G says ...

The most ubiquitous comic actor of the 1970's. He was everywhere then and it was always a good thing.

I posted this same clip earlier today for some friends. It's less offensive in context I think, but come on, this is hardly hate-speech. Or anything like it. A little dated maybe.

Still damn funny though.

Posted by Joe G at May 5, 2009 7:54 PM

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