The Blues Brothers

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Category: 13
All Genres: Action, Comedy, Music, Musical
Release Year: 1980
Country: USA
Runtime: 133
Rating: (0)
Languages: English
Director: John Landis
Sound: 4-Track Stereo, Mono
Taglines:

They'll never get caught. They're on a mission from God.

They're Back

The Most Dangerous Combination Since Nitro and Glycerine.

The show that really hits the road.

A briefcase full of blues.

Writing by: Dan Aykroyd - (written by) &
John Landis - (written by)

Produced by: Bernie Brillstein - executive producer
George Folsey Jr. - associate producer
David Sosna - associate producer
Robert K. Weiss - producer

Cast: John Belushi - 'Joliet' Jake Blues (as Jake)
Dan Aykroyd - Elwood Blues (as Elwood)
James Brown - Reverend Cleophus James
Cab Calloway - Curtis
Ray Charles - Ray
Aretha Franklin - Mrs. Murphy
Steve Cropper - Steve 'The Colonel' Cropper
Donald Dunn - Donald 'Duck' Dunn
Murphy Dunne - Murphy 'Murph' Dunne
Willie Hall - Willie 'Too Big' Hall
Tom Malone - Tom 'Bones' Malone

Music: Richard Bowden Maurice Jarre
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Plot Outline: Jake Blues, just out from prison, puts together his old band to save the Catholic home where he and brother Elwood were raised.
Plot: After the release of Jake Blues from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit the old home where they were raised by nuns. They learn the church stopped its support and will sell the place to the education authority, and the only way to keep the place open is if the $5000 tax on the property is paid within 11 days. The brothers want to help and decide to put their blues band back together and raise the the money by staging a big gig. As they set off on their "mission from god" they seem to make more enemies along the way. Will they manage to come up with the money in time?

Movie Quotes: [Sister Mary Stigmata hits Elwood with her stick]
Elwood: Ow, you fat penguin!

Crazy Credits: We know about 6 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
As the film ends with the Blues Brothers and band playing "Jailhouse Rock", there are several cuts starting with the second verse that feature the castmembers who are professional singers singing lines of the song with their names on the screen.

Goofs: We know about 64 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: During the actual drawbridge jump, the two halves of the bridge are much closer together and at a slightly lower angle than they were moments before, and have momentarily stopped moving.

Trivia: There are 44 entries in the trivia list - like these:
The scene in which the band appears in a sauna, clad only in towels, is an allusion to the cover photo on the 1973 Blood Sweat & Tears music album "No Sweat", in which the BST band appears in a sauna in identical pose. Lou Marini and Tom Malone, two of the Blues Brothers Band members, were also in BST and appear in both sauna scenes.
Elwood removes his hat three times in the film: when going to sleep in his room, to break the window to get into the Palace Hotel, and towards the end of the movie when the Bluesmobile falls apart. His sunglasses are never removed. Jake removes his sunglasses once, when he is talking to Carrie Fisher, but never removes his hat. In the DVD and cable versions, Elwood doesn't wear sunglasses when he quits his job.
Director Trademark: [John Landis] [ipanema] the music in the elevator.