“Once a week, I had to”: the movie Mel Brooks was forced to watch “thousands of times”

“Once a week, I had to”: the movie Mel Brooks was forced to watch “thousands of times”If there’s a movie you really love, then there’s absolutely nothing wrong with watching it as many times as you want. While Mel Brooks is a confessed fan of a 1940s classic, he didn’t necessarily have a choice after being forced into revisiting it on a weekly basis by his best friend. Still, Reiner was borderline obsessed with it, and Brooks had no choice but to go along with his pal’s demands. “Once a week, I had to watch Random Harvest with Ronald Colman,” he told The New York Times. He’s seen it more times than he would like and shed plenty of tears along the way, but at Reiner’s urging, Brooks couldn’t escape Random Harvest as part of his weekly schedule.