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Madeline Kahn has 12 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 1990s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Young Frankenstein.
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The Pink Panther Strikes Again
1976
Comedy · Crime

The Kentucky Fried Movie
1977
Comedy

Revenge of the Pink Panther
1978
Comedy · Crime

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1972
Comedy · Mystery

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
1988
Comedy · Crime

Jo
1971
Comedy · Crime

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
1988
Comedy · Crime

Johnny Dangerously
1984
Comedy · Crime

A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind.
Dir. Mel Brooks · With Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman

During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.
Dir. Peter Bogdanovich · With Tatum O'Neal, Ryan O'Neal, Madeline Kahn

Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, the guests and Boddy's chatty butler must suss out the culprit before the body count rises.
Dir. Jonathan Lynn · With Tim Curry, Eileen Brennan, Madeline Kahn

The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.
Dir. Peter Bogdanovich · With Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Madeline Kahn

A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lamarr sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.
Dir. Mel Brooks · With Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens

An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.
Dir. Mel Brooks · With Mel Brooks, Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn

A psychiatrist with intense acrophobia (fear of heights) goes to work for a mental institution run by doctors who appear to be crazier than their patients, and have secrets that they are willing to commit murder to keep.
Dir. Mel Brooks · With Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman
A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress—his partner's wife.
Dir. Robert Moore · With Peter Falk, Ann-Margret, Eileen Brennan

as Jenny Hill
After spending decades living in the shadow of his more famous and successful sibling, Consulting Detective Sigerson Holmes is called upon to help solve a crucial case that leads him on a hilarious trail of false identities, stolen documents, secret codes... and exposed backsides.
Dir. Gene Wilder · With Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman
For years Yellowbeard had looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their hearts. Caught and convicted for tax evasion, he's sentenced to 20 years in St. Victim's Prison for the Extremely Naughty. In a scheme to confiscate his fabulous treasure, the Royal Navy allows him to escape and follows him, where saucy tarts, lisping demigods and some awful puns and punishments await.
Dir. Mel Damski · With Graham Chapman, Martin Hewitt, Eric Idle
Set in Kansas City in 1933, Eastwood plays a police lieutenant known simply by his last name, Speer. Reynolds plays a former cop turned private eye named Mike Murphy. Both Speer and Murphy served on the force together and were once good friends, but are now bitter enemies. When Murphy's partner is slain they team up again to fight the mob.
Dir. Richard Benjamin · With Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Jane Alexander
The events of a crisis hotline business on one crazy night during the Christmas holidays.
Dir. Nora Ephron · With Steve Martin, Madeline Kahn, Rita Wilson
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