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46 BLADE RUNNERWarner Bros., 1982PRINCIPAL CASTDIRECTORPRODUCERSCREENWRITERHarrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young,Edward James OlmosRidley ScottMichael DeelyHampton FancherThe dark, rainy opening shot of Los Angeles in 2019 sets the stage for Scott’sfuturistic thriller, where “replicants,” a powerful human-like species, have mutiniedin an attempt to prolong their lifespans. Ford is the cop Blade Runner cop called onto hunt them down.47 BLAZING SADDLESWarner Bros., 1974PRINCIPAL CAST Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Madeline KahnDIRECTORMel BrooksPRODUCERMichael HertzbergSCREENWRITERS Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, Alan Uger,Andrew BergmanBrooks’ politically incorrect parody of all things Western spares no one, starting withthe dastardly Hedley Lemarr who brings Bart, a black urban sheriff to town. SaloonsingerLili Von Shtupp’s I’m Tired (à la Dietrich) and the bean-eating campfire sceneremain favorites.48 BLUE VELVETDEG, 1986PRINCIPAL CASTDIRECTORPRODUCERSCREENWRITERKyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper,Laura DernDavid LynchFred C. CarusoDavid LynchNaive Jeffrey Beaumont finds a severed ear in an empty lot near his bucolic hometown. Fed up with do-nothing cops, Jeffrey and girlfriend Sandy’s investigation takesthem beyond the white picket fence into the dark evil underworld of Frank Booth andhis nightclub singer, Dorothy Vallens.49 BONNIE AND CLYDEWarner Bros., 1967PRINCIPAL CAST Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman, Estelle ParsonsDIRECTORArthur PennPRODUCERWarren BeattySCREENWRITERS Robert Benton, David Newman“We rob banks!” Dunaway and Beatty star in this story of real-life 1930s bankrobbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, a film that mixed romance, adventure,glamour, comedy and violence in a way never seen before.American Film Institute 21