Check out the Filmography by rating for Slim Pickens to see IMDb’s ratings for Slim’s work, just to remind you of the many great movies he contributed to.
What’s your favorite one?
he was in movies besides Dr. Strangelove?
He was in Blazing Saddles too: with a resume including leading roles in those two, how much more can you expect of a man who never started of wanting to be a comic actor?
I never was much for Westerns, but he was hilarious in Blazing Saddles.
“Somebody’s gotta go back and get a shitload of dimes!”
I had intended including in the OP some of the trivia discussed in What movie did this quote come from? since it was found to be the movie I most associate with Slim, although I would have to say my very favorite was The Getaway (1972) because he did so much with such a tiny role.
[note that that linked thread is from right at a year ago.]
I’m voting for his role in One Eyed Jacks directed by Marlon Brando. My favorite line (as I remember it):
“If you’re lookin’ to get your back broke, sonny, I’m the feller around here that takes care of that sort of thing.”
Excellent choice! One of my top five, in fact. There are so many great lines in that one! I used to be able to rattle off dozens of them. Brando’s especially. They made a lot out of the censorship on language in those days that kept them from using the real stuff, by having some amusing alternatives instead.
Slim was instrumental in making that movie work as well as it did. Ben Johnson, too.
Gotta go with Blazing Saddles, also.
As great as he was in Blazing Saddles, he topped that and then some as Major King Kong in Dr. Strangelove ….
The rousing speech to his crew, personally going back to see why the bomb hadn’t dropped. All over the top but somehow very realistic at the same time.
“Shoot, a fella’ could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.”
Checking his resume, I saw only two of his films in the theater: Blazing Saddles, of course, and (I’m so embarrassed)
Tonka.
(And since there’s no love for 1941, I’ll say “Hollis P. Wood” just to get it out there.)
I always loved him as Major “King” Kong in Dr. Strangelove,
Hollis “Holly” Wood in 1941 and
“California” Joe Milner in the Custer series.
I think he makes any show he’s in better, but maybe it’s just when his character has a nickname.
ETA: once again, curse my slow typing. I should make this my sig.
As luck would have it, Slim’s entire role is in this clip from The Getaway: McQueen and MacGraw: End of the Movie which is so far superior to the Baldwin-Basinger remake as to be criminal.
He didn’t even know Dr. Strangelove wasn’t a drama until after it was done - Kubrick shot his scenes separately from the rest of the movie, keeping him apart from the rest of the cast. Pissed him off a little to find out, but then the checks started coming in, so you know.
That said: "Well, boys, we got three engines out, we got more holes in us than a horse trader’s mule, the radio is gone and we’re leaking fuel and if we was flying any lower, why, we’d need sleigh bells on this thing… but we got one little budge on them Rooskies. At this height, why, they might harpoon us but they dang sure ain’t gonna spot us on no radar screen! "
*“Survival kit contents check. In them you’ll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days’ concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella’ could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.” *
Dr. Strangelove.
Yes, one of the best scenes in a totally amazing film. I vote for this as well.
I’m gonna change my vote. His work in The Apple Dumpling Gang was fantastic. He perfectly conveyed every profanity his character wanted to deliver while still keeping the whole thing safe for kids.
Crow bait! haha
Yes, there were many great lines in that movie.
One of the better scenes: - YouTube
I’ll stick for Rancho Deluxe, he did a great job as the sly private eye who seemed to be a bumbling old fool.