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| Actors: Edie Adams, Luana Anders, John Astin, Pamela Austin, Leonard Barr
Studio: Universal Studios
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Rating:  47 reviews
Sales Rank: 11991
Format: Color, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 97 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 6305837562
UPC: 096898374736
EAN: 9786305837565
ASIN: 6305837562
Theatrical Release Date: February 18, 1972
Release Date: May 30, 2000
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 One of the funniest movies I've ever seen! May 7, 2000
Paul Beatty (Harrodsburg, KY United States)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
I used to watch this on tv years ago and had tears of laughter in my eyes every time. Astin is hilarious as Evil Roy. Original comedy western.
 A Disappointment August 3, 2004
Scaramouche (Redlands, CA United States)
11 out of 25 found this review helpful
Loved it when I saw it in the '70s (when I was a teenager). Unfortunately, I should have stuck with my nice memory. The reality, viewed recently, did not live up to my recollection. Just too, too silly. I never laughed, not once. Fans of silliness might like it, though.
Greatness March 10, 2002
JONES (DECATUR, TEXAS United States)
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
Evil Roy is simply greatness. I first saw the film in the 70's and like many of the other reviewers, my close friend and I would scour the TV listings every week trying to find when it was coming on again. For years we hardly ever had a conversation that someone wouldn't insert at least one SLADE quote. The movie obviously achieved cult status but it seemed it never became known to the true masses. After college I went to work for the Federal Reserve and met people from all across the U.S. One day in casual conversation I dropped a Slade quote and this girl from Chicago reached in her purse and produced an EVIL ROY SLADE fan club card (they started the club at her college back home). My fifteen minutes of fame came when I actually got to personally speak (albeit via the telephone) to Evil Roy when he came to Dallas to promote the Adams Family release. It was a call-in talk show and the first three callers all wanted to speak to Evil Roy Slade not Gomez Adams. Although I think everyone would agree we all liked Gomez, EVIL ROY is true greatness.
Classic Western Parody! May 3, 2002
windycitytarheel (Wheaton, IL USA)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
To the uninitiated this film may seem a bit dated--after all it's a made-for-TV film from the early '70s, how good can it be? In this case, outstanding! I was a senior in high school when I saw "Evil Roy Slade" in its debut on NBC in the Spring of 1972. Coming just as "Monty Python" was beginning to be aired in the U.S. and before Mel Brooks hit the screen with "Blazing Saddles" ('73) and "Young Frankenstein" ('74) there had been little of this sort of zany humor since the days of Ernie Kovacs. And as a TV flick, it had to stay within the bounds of what was then proper without the language and sexual innuendo which the Python crew and Brooks could play for admittedly hysterical--but crude and non-family-friendly laughs. The numerous great lines ("9 to 5 job? The only job I like is 9 men, robbin' 5!")and John Astin's creation of "Evil Roy" and Dick Shawn's "Bing Bell" took on a life of their own among my friends and I back then. Last week my two sons (10 and 8) and I watched the film for the first time--and the same thing has happened: "Is that the door?" "key-chonk-a-tonk," "See my new doll house," and "Cain't walk without mah guns!" are part of our daily banter now. A great comedy, ahead of its time, that you can actually view with your kids!
The Best Comedic Western EVER Made! January 28, 2008
Mel Odom (Moore, OK USA)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
Most people are going to remember comic actor John Astin for his role as Gomez Addams on THE ADDAMS FAMILY television series. As Gomez, Astin swaggered onto the stage and delivered one-liners and off-beat dialogue with impeccable timing.
However, I remember him most vividly in the title role of EVIL ROY SLADE, a made-for-TV movie that came out back in 1972. On that first viewing, that movie became my favorite comedic Western, even outstripping James Garner's SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF. It's really unfair to group the two movies together in some respects. SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF tells a real story and Garner plays the character straight.
Some might want to throw Mel Brooks's BLAZING SADDLES into the pot for consideration, and that's fine. I just preferred the with and quick turns of my two personal favorites. I enjoyed BLAZING SADDLES, just not as much.
With EVIL ROY SLADE, the humor is over-the-top and moves at a purely frantic slapstick pace. If you don't pay attention to EVIL ROY SLADE you're going to miss a snappy comeback, an offhand remark that is delicious, or a bit of physical comedy mugging for the camera that is to die for.
Where else can you get math problems like:
Betsy: Evil Roy, if you had six apples and your neighbor took three of them, what would you have?
Evil Roy: A dead neighbor and all six apples.
Or:
Evil Roy: My definition of a nine-to-five job? Nine guys robbing five guys!
Or:
Poker Player: I got jacks with an ace.
Evil Roy: I got threes...with a gun.
Poker Player: You win! Wow, you are lucky!
The laughs are often deft puns and plays on words, with Astin mugging his way through them in true vaudevillian style. No one else could have played Evil Roy Slade.
Until the DVD arrived and I sat down to watch it with my son, I didn't know that Garry Marshall and his long-time writing partner Jerry Belson had written the script. Looking back through the movie, it's easy to see Marshall's trademark of working with people he enjoys. He gave roles to his younger sister Penny Marshall (and later created LAVERNE & SHIRLEY for her) and Pat Morita (and later cast him in the role of Arnold in HAPPY DAYS).
Anyone familiar with Marshall and Belson's work (on THE DICK VAN DYKE, THE LUCY SHOW, and the television adaption of Neil Simon's THE ODD COUPLE to name a few) will recognize the snappy patter and quick play on words. No one did it better than they did.
The movie has a familiar plot, bad guy falls in love with pretty woman who tries to make him turn good, but the unrelenting, quick pace of the humor transcends the rather staid storyline. EVIL ROY SLADE quite simply takes no prisoners.
Mickey Rooney plays Nelson Stool, the railroad tycoon chasing Evil Roy. Dick Shawn stars as Ding Bell, the singing cowboy marshal Stool sends for. Henry Gibson plays Stool's ne'ver-do-well nephew. Edie Adams stars as the woman scorned by Evil Roy. Milton Berle plays a shoe salesman who tried to help Evil Roy go straight. In a hilarious role, Dom Deluise stars as a psychiatrist. In an uncredited role, Ed Begley has a brief walk-on that's funny. This talented cast all add to the timing and pacing of the movie.
If the rejoinders or the wry observations don't get you, then the visual gags or Astin's constant preening and monologues will. The actors and actresses move like clockwork throughout the movie. Even when you get ahead of the plot and see something coming (like Evil Roy getting stuck riding a Shetland pony with his boots dragging the ground), the sight of it being played out is goofball hilarious.
This is one of the most perfect family movies I've seen in a long time. There's no profanity, no nudity, no innuendo. It's just slapstick comedy at its purest form.
If you haven't seen EVIL ROY SLADE, you're in for a treat. And if you have seen the movie, treat yourself to a return bout with the best comedic Western film ever made.
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