Mel Brooks Movie Marathon

Saturday, April 6All DayRoadrunner RoomThomas Branigan Memorial Library200 E. Picacho Ave., Las Cruces, NM, 88001

April is National Humor Month, in honor of all things comedy, join us for a Mel Brooks Movie Marathon.

10:30 - Blazing Saddles (1974) Rated R, run time 93 minutes - A crooked politician hires a black sheriff for a small frontier town, with the hope that the people will panic and abandon the land so he and his cronies can run a railroad through it

12:10 - History of the World Part 1 (1981) Rated R, run time 92 minutes - A spoof of world events includes mockeries of the Bible, the Last Supper, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition, among others.

1:45 - Spaceballs (1987) Rated PG, run time 96 minutes - A rogue pilot and his best friend team with a princess to help her save her planet when an evil space commander wants to steal all the planet's air in this "Star Wars" spoof.

3:30 - Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) Rated PG-13, run time 105 minutes - A veteran of the Crusades brings together a ragtag group to do battle against an evil king, and gets help from a surprising source inside the royal castle in this spoof of the Robin Hood legend.

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