
Evil Roy Slade, the meanest villain the West has known, meets a beautiful young woman who persuades him to change careers from train robber to family man. He is pursued by Marshal Bing Bell, while a helpful psychologist teaches him to live without weapons.... (Full plot summary below)
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Evil Roy Slade, the meanest villain the West has known, meets a beautiful young woman who persuades him to change careers from train robber to family man. He is pursued by Marshal Bing Bell, while a helpful psychologist teaches him to live without weapons.
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| Laramie Movie ScopeRobert RotenThis clumsy farce is funny in places, but the comedy is uneven, with an equal number of hits and misses. It is a kind of tame, low-rent version of 'Blazing Saddles.' |
| User ReviewKelly PWant to buy this. Oh this is tooo too funny! "Why am I going pow pow pow ?" |
| User ReviewRaena WOh my gosh! My mom got me onto to this movie. Its old but gold. |
| User ReviewSteve HBest comedy western ever, similar to Blazing Saddles only Better |
| User ReviewJulie BThis movie makes me laugh. It is dumb humor, but sometimes that is exactly what I need to turn my day around. |
| User ReviewJohn RLove this movie. Have been looking for it forever. |
| User ReviewMokiI laughed for 1 hour. This has to be the best western spoof ever. |
| User ReviewLeslie GJust Great, get it, watch it, laugh at it, enjoy it. BRAVO |
| User Reviewrachel sLove this movie. Have been looking for it forever. |
| User ReviewSteve MWhen the meanest outlaw in the Wild West, Evil Roy Slade (Astin), falls in love with a beautiful school teacher (Austin), he tries to change his wicked ways and she helps him with her kind, liberal heart and treatment from her psychiatrist friend (DeLuise). But is Evil Roy simply too evil to change? Will the coldhearted Rail Baron that Evil Roy has been tormenting for years (Rooney) and the egomaniacal singing sheriff Bing Bell (Shawn) even give him the time he needs to change? "Evil Roy Slade" is quite possibly one of the funniest, screwiest westerns ever made. John Astin is hilarious from his first moment on screen, and he doesn't let up until the very last shot. There isn't a line he delivers that isn't hiliarious and perfect in its comic timing, whether he's delivering the joke or serving as the straight man so one of the excellent members of the supporting cast can provide the laugh line. And, although great talents like Mickey Rooney, Henry Gibson, Dom DeLuise and Milton Berle all appear in the film, this is John Astin's movie. With a never-ending barrage of spot-on jokes, absurdities, sight gags, and even a little sideways social commentary, "Evil Roy Slade" is a film of a quality that belies its network television origins; it was made as the pilot for a serries that never got off the ground. It ranks up there with the great movie comedies, like "Blazing Saddles", "Monte Python and the Holy Grail", and "Duck Soup". It's one of those films that deserves to be far better known than it is. Trust me: If liked any of the movies I just listed, you'll enjoy the hell out of "Evil Roy Slade". Evil Roy Slade Starring: John Astin, Mickey Rooney, Pamela Austin, Henry Gibson, Dom DeLuise, Milton Berle, Dick Shawn, and Edie Adams Director: Jerry Paris |