Mel Brooks re-used this line when he made "Blazing Saddles". (Don't get me wrong - I love that movie also). It's unfortunate that so many think THAT is the source of this, all too frequently repeated, phrase.
Blazing Saddles (imo), was the best movie he ever made, he made fun just about everything in his sight... No respect for anything... in a light sort of way... (something that if people did more often, we would live in a much less litigious society... but that is another subject).
So the scene in which he took the "we need no stinking badges" line, was indeed one of the best, as he was showing, just about every single enemy that the USA or the Western World for that matter, ever had.... oil sheiks, Nazi soldiers, Ku Klux Klan Wizards, Cattle rustlers, Mexican Bandits... (who play the above line)... etc. etc...
I think he was also making fun of the Bogart movie as well...
But you are right, many do credit Blazing Saddles for the "Stinking Badges" line....
Here it is (Somehow... the line-up reminds me of the FTEL/FCM threads...)
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Lamarr: Taggart!
Taggart: Yes sir?
Lamarr: I've decided to launch an attack that will reduce Rock Ridge to ashes.
Taggart: What do you want me to do, sir?
Lamarr: I want you to round up every vicious criminal and gunslinger in the west. Take this down: I want rustlers, cutthraots, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, half-wits, dim-wits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, horse wagglers, horse thiefs, bullbags, train robbers, bank robbers, ass kickers, shit kickers, and Methodists! [laughter]
Taggart: Could you repeat that, sir?
And the famous [modified] line....
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(*) Even he made fun of Ayn Rand.... using the name Taggart as the name of Heady Lamarr's (the big Villain) "right hand" for dirty deeds... as he is trying to build his railroad....
Dagny Taggart and her brother (Jim, I think), ran the Taggart Transcontinental in Rand's Atlas Shrugged" |
