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    Find seven movies from Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder, two comedy legends, on IMDb. See ratings, genres, plots, cast, and more details for each movie.

  3. Dec 12, 1980 · A comedy crime film about two friends who are wrongfully imprisoned for a bank robbery and try to escape with a rodeo scheme. See cast, crew, reviews, trivia, awards, and more for this classic movie starring Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor.

    • (30K)
    • Comedy, Crime
    • Sidney Poitier
    • 1980-12-12
  4. May 12, 1989 · A deaf man and a blind man witness a murder and must escape from the killers. See No Evil, Hear No Evil is a 1989 comedy crime film starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder, directed by Arthur Hiller.

    • (58K)
    • Comedy, Crime
    • Arthur Hiller
    • 1989-05-12
    • Because of His Substance Abuse, Pryor Was Unpredictable to Work with
    • Pryor and Wilder Were Originally The Leads in 'Trading Places'
    • Wilder Compared Their Working Relationship to 'Sexual Attraction'
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    Pryor and Wilder were supposed to have been paired together earlier, in Mel Brooks' satirical Western Blazing Saddles(1974). However, while Pryor earned a screenwriting credit, he also reportedly torpedoed his chance to star as Sheriff Bart, alongside Wilder's Waco Kid, by showing up high to script sessions, and Cleavon Little was offered the role ...

    A few months before the film hit theaters, after an extended binge of freebasing cocaine, Pryor doused himself with 151-proof rum and set himself on fire. Along with threatening his life, his actions derailed his Hollywood career and impacted Wilder's as well: The lead parts in Trading Places, intended for Pryor and Wilder, instead went to Eddie Mu...

    In his memoir Kiss Me Like a Stranger, published the same year as Pryor's death (2005), Wilder recalled the magic of working with Pryor, likening it to "sexual attraction" because of their unexplainable chemistry. But he also confirmed the reality of their muted personal relationship, noting, "as close as we were on film, it just didn't carry over ...

    Learn about the professional and personal relationship of the late comedians Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder, who starred in four films together. Discover how their on-screen chemistry contrasted with their off-screen distance, and how they coped with Pryor's addiction and illness.

  5. Silver Streak is a 1976 American thriller comedy film, about a murder on a Los Angeles -to- Chicago train journey. It was directed by Arthur Hiller and stars Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, and Richard Pryor, with Patrick McGoohan, Ned Beatty, Clifton James, Ray Walston, Scatman Crothers, and Richard Kiel in supporting roles.

  6. Blazing Saddles is a 1974 American satirical postmodernist [4] [5] Western black comedy film directed by Mel Brooks, who co-wrote the screenplay with Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg and Alan Uger, based on a story treatment by Bergman. [6] . The film stars Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder.

  7. Stir Crazy is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Sidney Poitier, written by Bruce Jay Friedman, produced by Hannah Weinstein, [2] and starring Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor as two unemployed friends who are given 125-year prison sentences after getting framed for a bank robbery. While in prison they befriend other prison inmates.

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