Deleted Scenes From ‘The Blues Brothers’ Were Rescued by the FBI
Putting aside the terrible sequel, the ridiculous video game tie-in and the awkward fan conventions, the original 1980 film The Blues Brothers is still very good, mostly thanks to the performances from true music legends like Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles and Cab Calloway.
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Plus, there’s that iconic car chase through an Illinois shopping mall, which, admittedly, is a lot less fun to watch if you know that the mall in question was being used by a school until Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi trashed the place and didn’t bother to clean their mess up.
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Interestingly, the version of the movie that we’ve all seen is a lot different than how it was originally conceived.
According to director John Landis, The Blues Brothers was going to be an epic “roadshow movie with an intermission.” But when he screened the lone 70mm print of the nearly three-hour cut...
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Plus, there’s that iconic car chase through an Illinois shopping mall, which, admittedly, is a lot less fun to watch if you know that the mall in question was being used by a school until Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi trashed the place and didn’t bother to clean their mess up.
Play
Interestingly, the version of the movie that we’ve all seen is a lot different than how it was originally conceived.
According to director John Landis, The Blues Brothers was going to be an epic “roadshow movie with an intermission.” But when he screened the lone 70mm print of the nearly three-hour cut...
- 1/9/2025
- Cracked
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