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Blazing Saddles is a 1974 American satirical postmodernist Western black comedy film directed by Mel Brooks, who co-wrote the screenplay with Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg and Alan Uger, based on a story treatment by Bergman.
Feb 7, 1974 · Blazing Saddles: Directed by Mel Brooks. With Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman. In order to ruin a western town, a corrupt politician appoints a black Sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.
Blazing Saddles (1974) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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.
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Rock Ridge, 1874. Determined to run a new railroad through the dusty American frontier town, conniving land speculator Hedley Lamarr has the nerve to uproot its peaceful inhabitants.
Feb 6, 2024 · Blazing Saddles at 50: Against all odds, Mel Brooks created the wackiest western ever made. The director’s groundbreaking satire of bigotry had a wild journey to the screen, with...
May 30, 2024 · Blazing Saddles. Classic spoof western. A dastardly plan to undermine the rule of law in a frontier town is challenged by its new black sheriff Bart and Jim the Waco Kid.
Bart rejects the advances of a man-killing woman who has been sicced on him ( Madeline Kahn as Marlene Dietrich -- Lili von Shtupp), and the people build a dummy town and lure the bad guys into it. One of the hallmarks of Brooks' movie humor has been his willingness to embrace excess.
Classic spoof western. A dastardly plan to undermine the rule of law in a frontier town is challenged by its new black sheriff Bart and Jim the Waco Kid. Oscar-winning Western with John Wayne.
Feb 29, 2024 · 'Blazing Saddles,' The Best Interracial Buddy Comedy To satirize 1970s racial prejudice using 1870s characters, Brooks opted to become an equal-opportunity shredder of genres and...