[Dixielandjazz] "Bodges...."

[Dick Miller]

Bcf111 at aol.com writes:
>In a message dated 1/24/03 7:58:39 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
>barbonestreet at earthlink.net writes:
>
>> To paraphrase that great line about badges in a Western Movie some years
>> ago. (Badges? We don't need no stinkin badges!)
>> 
>
>Actually, it wasn't a Western Movie, it was more of a Mexican:  "The
>Treasure 
>of Sierra Madre", by John Ford with Humphrey Bogart,  The line was said
>by 
>Alfonso Bedoya, and it was roughly "Bodges?  We don' need no stinkin'
>bodges, 
>we are the Federales!"  The late Jazzbo Al Collins used it as a mantra on
>his 
>radio shows later.
>
>Best regards, Ben Fowlkes, Curator of a Mountain of Movie Trivia
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Actually, the exact quote Steve cited is from Mel Brooks' "Blazing
Saddles," from sometime in the 70s, I think. In the scene in which the
line occurred, Harvey Korman and Slim Pickins were overseeing the
recruiting of all sorts of desperadoes to be used as bogus deputies to
attack and pillage the town where the new black Marshal (Cleavon Little)
was holding forth. There were Nazis, bikers, Klansmen, etc. in the
recruiting line. When it came to the stereotypical banditos, who were
offered deputy badges, the line resulted. Knowing Brooks movies, I suspect
it was an allusion to Ford's movie: he liked to do that sort of thing.

--Dick