Just one of the many superb lines that The Blues Brothers has left for cinematic posterity.
Starring Dan Ackroyd (Elwood Blues) and John Belushi (Jake Blues), as two brothers, raised in an orphanage, on blues music by Cab Calloway, tormented by the mother superior running the religious home and destined for a life as performers and prison dwellers.
The opening scene spells out the temperature of the film, focusing on the release of "Joliet" Jake Blues from prison and his collection at the gate by his brother, in a retired police car.
Included in this Cult of cult films are, the (until very recently) biggest car chase/crash scene in cinema history, Carrie Fisher, John Candy, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Ray Charles, John Lee Hooker, Chaka Khan (soloist in Brown's choir), Sherman Tanks, Bazooka fire and M16 machine gun fire (both by Fisher), Twiggy, Pee-Wee Herman (Pre-Pee-Wee), Frank Oz (Yoda), Kathleen Freeman, a Picasso statue and even a cameo from Steven "the all powerful" Spielberg.
Filmed in 1980, on a budget of $27,000,000 by director John Landis (National Lampoon's Animal House & Spies Like Us), this musical, romped home to a staggering $115,229,890 at the box office.
Fun Fact: John Landis worked as Assistant Director on Kelly's Heroes.
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