Stars: Frances McDormand, Nigel Hawthorne, Hatty Jones

Director: Daisy Mayer

Summary: Madeline and her eleven friends live in a school run by Miss Clavel in an old house in Paris. Madeline is the smallest and the most adventurous so when stuffy Lord Covington threatens to close the school, she and her friends have to save the day...

Madeline and her 11 friends live at a school run by Miss Clavel in an old house in Paris. Madeline is the smallest of the girls and also the most adventurous. The future of the school is in jeopardy when its stuffy owner, Lord Covington, decides to sell it. With Pepito's help (the devilish son of the Spanish Ambassador who lives next door), the resourceful Madeline hatches a plot to save their beloved home, but along the way the children encounter some bumbling would-be kidnappers on a visit to the circus. It's up to the indomitable Miss Clavel to come to their rescue.

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Mel Brooks scored his first commercial hit with this raucous Western spoof starring the late Cleavon Little as the newly hired (and conspicuously black) sheriff of Rock Ridge. Sheriff Bart teams up with deputy Jim (Gene Wilder) to foil the railroad-building scheme of the nefarious Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman). The simple plot is just an excuse for a steady stream of gags, many of them unabashedly tasteless, that Brooks and his wacky cast pull off with side-splitting success. The humour is so juvenile and crude that you just have to surrender to it; highlights abound, from Alex Karras as the ox-riding Mongo to Madeline Kahn's uproarious send-up of Marlene Dietrich as saloon songstress Lili Von Shtupp. Adding to the comedic excess is the infamous campfire scene involving a bunch of hungry cowboys, heaping servings of baked beans and, well, you get the idea. --Jeff Shannon

Aspect Ratio:	Full Screen, Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	1952 Madeline Cartoon, 13 Behind The Scenes Publicity Shots, DVD Trailer, Author Biography, Trailer
Year:	1998
Release Date:	July 12, 2004
Runtime:	85 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	C 822 663 0
Keywords:	Family, Madeline
Genre:	Family