The Blues Brothers/Animal House/Stripes

Cult comedy movie triple featuring various 'Saturday Night Live' alumni. Director John Landis's 'The Blues Brothers' (1980) is 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). Landis also directs the raucous college comedy 'National Lampoon's Animal House' (1978), set in the early 1960s. Delta House is the fraternity that will take anyone no other club wants as a member and makes sure nothing comes 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. 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. Bill Murray stars in 'Stripes' (1981) as John Winger, a loser (literally) who loses everything that matters to him - his car, apartment and girlfriend - on the same day. Along with his equally unsuccessful best friend, Russell Zitsky (Harold Ramis), John decides to enrol in the US Army, but discovers that his unit is little more than a refuge for drug-addled psychotic misfits. Matters are not helped by the no-nonsense Sergeant Hulka (Warren Oates), who is determined to instil some discipline in his unruly recruits.

Director: John Landis
Director: Ivan Reitman
Producer: Robert K. Weiss
Producer: Matty Simmons
Writer: Dan Aykroyd
Producer: Ivan Reitman
Producer: Dan Goldberg
Writer: John Landis
Writer: Harold Ramis
Writer: Len Blum
Music: Elmer Bernstein
Writer: Douglas Kenney
Writer: Dan Goldberg
Cinematographer: Stephen M. Katz
Production Design: John J. Lloyd
Writer: Chris Miller
Actor: John Belushi
Actor: Dan Aykroyd
Cinematographer: Charles Correll
Actor: Bill Murray
Actor: Cab Calloway
Actor: Harold Ramis
Actor: Henry Gibson
Special FX A/V: Henry Millar
Actor: Warren Oates
Actor: Carrie Fisher
Actor: P.J. Soles
Actor: Charles Napier
Actor: Tim Matheson
Actor: Sean Young
Actor: Ray Charles
Actor: John Vernon
Actor: Aretha Franklin
Actor: Tom Hulce
Actor: Glenn-Michael Jones
Actor: James Brown
Actor: Donald Sutherland
Actor: John Larroquette
Actor: John Candy
Actor: Mary Louise Weller
Actor: Lance LeGault
Actor: Roberta Leighton
Actor: Verna Bloom
Actor: The Blues Brothers Band
Actor: Karen Allen
Actor: Judge Reinhold
Actor: Fran Ryan
Actor: Dave Thomas
Actor: Nick Toth
Actor: John Voldstad
Actor: William Lucking
Actor: Steven Spielberg
Actor: Cesare Danova
Actor: James Daughton
Actor: Frank Oz
Actor: Stephen Furst
Actor: Bruce McGill
Actor: Steve Lawrence
Actor: Peter Riegert
Actor: John Lee Hooker
Actor: Twiggy
Actor: Paul Reubens
Writer: Chris Miller