The Blues Brothers/National Lampoon’s Animal House

Double bill of John Belushi comedy cult classics. ‘The Blues Brothers’ (1980) is the comedy classic from the ‘Saturday Night Live’ stable packed with car chases, music and cameo appearances. Blues brothers Jake and Elwood (John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd) have sold their souls to rhythm’n’blues, but still lend a hand when the church orphanage in which they were raised is threatened with closure. Resolving to get their old band together and stage a fund-raising gig, the brothers have God on their side but everyone else against them – and that includes a bunch of Country and Western rednecks, an angry chapter of neo-Nazi thugs, the massed ranks of the Chicago police force, and Jake’s psychotic ex-girlfriend Camille (Carrie Fisher). ‘National Lampoon’s Animal House’ (1978) is John Landis’ raucous college comedy set in the early Sixties. Delta House is the fraternity that will take anyone no other club wants as a member and makes sure nothing gets in the way of their partying. The college dean (John Vernon) is desperate to close Delta House down and enlists the help of another fraternity full of sanctimonious, white, rich boys. However, Delta House’s affiliates are equally determined to continue their partying and high-jinks: culminating in a showdown during the homecoming parade. John Belushi’s film career took off after playing the toga-loving John ‘Bulto’ Bultarsky, and Donald Sutherland puts in an appearance as a free-thinking, pot-smoking professor.