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The car was featured in a scene that set a record for most cars destroyed with 104, which broke a mark of 63 established by the original “The Blues Brothers” film, which used a 1974 Dodge ...
While the Blues brothers are the story's deuteragonists, the true star of the film is the iconic Bluesmobile, a 1974 Dodge Monaco police car that Elwood bought at an auction.
In the final script, and in the Blues Brothers film, the “mission from God” refers to the goofy central plot. Jake and Elwood Blues set out to raise $5,000 to pay a delinquent tax bill for the ...
At several points in “The Blues Brothers” (1980), for no particular reason except the glee of destruction, police cruisers chasing the titular rogue siblings go airborne, spiral, smash into ...
Chicago’s best movie car chases: Before NASCAR, Batman and Blues Brothers raced on (and above) city streets Can this weekend’s race deliver the thrill of a Cutlass Classic falling from Marina ...
I saw "The Blues Brothers," the crazy car-crash comedy musical, starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd and directed by John Landis. The film came out on June 20, 1980.
A Blues Brothers archival concert recording, 'The Lost Album,' accompanies a new graphic novel, 'The Escape of Joliet Jake,' out this fall.
Andrea Vollmer, left, from Plainfield, and Madison Kush, from Minooka, attend Blues Brothers Con at the Old Joliet Prison on Aug. 19, 2022. The convention concludes Aug. 20 with a free open-to-the ...
In the final script, and in the Blues Brothers film, the “mission from God” refers to the goofy central plot. Jake and Elwood Blues set out to raise $5,000 to pay a delinquent tax bill for the ...
Well, here are some things you might not know — five nuggets of “Blues Brothers” trivia drawn from the pages of my book “The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the ...
While the Blues brothers are the story's deuteragonists, the true star of the film is the iconic Bluesmobile, a 1974 Dodge Monaco police car that Elwood bought at an auction.