Blazing Saddles
R · 1974 ‧ Comedy/Western ‧ 1h 33m
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In this satirical take on Westerns, crafty railroad worker Bart (Cleavon Little) becomes the first black sheriff of Rock Ridge, a frontier town about to be destroyed in order to make way for a new railroad. Initially, the people of Rock Ridge...
Release date: February 7, 1974 (USA)
Director: Mel Brooks
Screenplay: Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, Andrew Bergman, and more
Distributed by: Warner Bros.
Actor: actor Cleavon Little
Blazing Saddles is a 1974 American satirical postmodernist Western black comedy film directed by Mel Brooks, who co-wrote the screenplay with Andrew Bergman ...
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In order to ruin a western town, a corrupt politician appoints a black Sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.
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Daring, provocative, and laugh-out-loud funny, Blazing Saddles is a gleefully vulgar spoof of Westerns that marks a high point in Mel Brooks' storied career.
Duration: 2:15
Posted: Jan 30, 2014
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A governor grants clemency to a Black convict on the condition that he serve as sheriff of a frontier Western town in writer/director Mel Brooks' epic black ...
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The railroad's got to run through the town of Rock Ridge. How do you drive out the townfolk in order to steal their land? Send in the toughest gang you've got..
Duration: 2:43
Posted: May 26, 2011
Posted: May 26, 2011
Great spoof of the old "Hero saves the town" movies with a hilarious twist, the hero is Black with a White sidekick. One liners, double-takes, tongue-in-cheeks ...
Ribald, tasteless and hilarious ... this classic spoof of the Western genre by director Mel Brooks pokes fun at everyone and everything.
It is a great parody. It has a gentle, loving spirit. People talk about it years after seeing it. Sure, it is coarse, lowbrow, sometimes sophomoric, and silly.