>Both of the Cheech and Chong movies I've seen would be examples >of the latter category, since they consist of little but a series of >sketches. I wouldn't consider this drugs so much as just vaudeville, one of the major sources of American film comedy. Check against Marx/Ritz Bros, Fields, Cantor, Olsen & Johnson, Wheeler & Woolsey etc reaching an extreme with Abbott & Costello, burlesque instead of vaudeville and to the point where scripts left blanks for A&C (or writer pal John Grant) to insert whatever old stage routine they felt appropriate. But of course nobody cares about the plots. ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html