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The Blues Brothers is a 1980 American musical action comedy film directed by John Landis. [4] It stars John Belushi as "Joliet" Jake Blues and Dan Aykroyd as his brother Elwood, characters developed from the recurring musical sketch "The Blues Brothers" on NBC's variety series Saturday Night Live.
In 1980, The Blues Brothers, directed by John Landis, was released. It featured epic car chases involving the Bluesmobile and musical performances by Aretha Franklin , James Brown , Cab Calloway , Ray Charles and John Lee Hooker . [ 1 ]
The first foray into film came with the successful Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi vehicle, The Blues Brothers (1980), ... Blues Brothers 2000: 46% (46 reviews) ...
A never-before-heard 1979 interview John Belushi gave to music critic Steve Bloom of the Soho Weekly News has been released for the first time as part of the Audible audio documentary “Blues ...
In what is perhaps the most famous sequence in the 1980 action-comedy, Jake and Elwood Blues speed through the multilevel streets of downtown Chicago in a 1974 black-and-white Dodge Monaco sedan ...
The Blues Brothers — Aykroyd's Elwood and Belushi's “Joliet” Jake — wore black suits and black string ties inspired by comedian Lenny Bruce and snap-brim fedora hats and shades borrowed ...
Released in the U.S. on June 20, 1980, The Blues Brothers received generally negative reviews. [28] It earned just under $5 million in its opening weekend, and went on to gross $115.2 million in theaters worldwide before its release on home video.
John David Landis (born August 3, 1950) [1] is an American filmmaker and actor. He is best known for directing comedy films such as The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977), National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), The Blues Brothers (1980), Trading Places (1983), Three Amigos (1986), Coming to America (1988) and Beverly Hills Cop III (1994), and horror films such as An American Werewolf in London (1981 ...