Gene Wilder said, "They've smashed racism in the face, but they're doing it while you laugh." The Am. Film Institute ranked it #6 of its 100 Funniest Movies of All Time. In 06 it was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" enough to be preserved by the National Film Registry.

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