YOU WILL NEVER WATCH "PUTTIN' ON THE RITZ" THE SAME WAY AGAIN.
There is a moment in the outtakes where the camera physically shakes because the operator is laughing. That moment never made it into the movie. It lives only in the bloopers, and it is worth the price of admission alone. Young Frankenstein arrived in 1974 and instantly became a comedy landmark. But the footage that got left on the cutting room floor tells an even better story. It tells the story of a cast that simply could not keep a straight face.
THE SET THAT COULDN'T STOP LAUGHING
Mel Brooks built his black-and-white love letter to Universal horror on one simple, dangerous premise. He hired the funniest people alive and then asked them to play it completely straight. Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle, Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman, and Madeline Kahn all signed on. Not one of them could hold it together. The bloopers are the proof. Take after take collapses into giggles, snorts, and full-body corpsing. And honestly? That is exactly why the finished film feels so alive.
GENE WILDER'S GIGGLE WAS THE REAL MONSTER
Gene Wilder plays Dr. Frederick Frankenstein with a stone face and a ticking bomb behind his eyes.
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