Mel Brooks delivers a delirious blizzard of gags, puns and assaults on good taste in his ribald sagebrush send-up. Cleavon Little is the newly hired black sheriff of Rock Ridge who teams up with deputy Gene Wilder to foil the railroad-building scheme of the nefarious Hedley Lamar. Also with Madeline Kahn.
Sunset Boulevard
Saturday, June 7 Sunday, June 8
Showtime: 8pm
Released: 1950
Time: 110 minutes
Billy Wilder’s tart, satiric tribute to the Golden Age of Tinseltown. A frustrated young scriptwriter (William Holden) becomes a willing pawn in a faded silent film star’s (Gloria Swanson) attempt at a screen comeback.
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
Thursday, June 12 Friday, June 13 Saturday, June 14 Sunday, June 15
Showtime: 8pm
Released: 1981
Time: 115 minutes
Lost civilizations, mystical talismans, Nazi villains and death at every turn. It can only be that whip-cracking, fedora-wearing adventurer Indy Jones (Harrison Ford) on his globetrotting quest for the Ark of the Covenant.