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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.
Feb 7, 2024 · Mel Brooks’s beloved Blazing Saddles, about the rise of a Black sheriff in the American west of 1874, is widely regarded as the most audacious comedy of the legendary director’s career. A ...
Oct 6, 2022 · Crazy and funny western directed by Mel Brooks.From a video source.
Summaries. In order to ruin a western town, a corrupt politician appoints a black Sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary. A town where everyone seems to be named Johnson is in the way of the railroad.
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...
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- Comedy, Western
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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.
Feb 12, 2024 · The defining scene in “ Blazing Saddles ” isn’t any of its raucous large-scale comedic setpieces, or the gleefully lowball moments that, to paraphrase filmmaker Mel Brooks, rise below vulgarity. It’s a throwaway scene between its two lead characters, Sheriff Bart ( Cleavon Little) and The Waco Kid ( Gene Wilder ), that was actually a ...
Feb 29, 2024 · Mel Brooks' satirical Western Blazing Saddles got mixed reviews when it opened in February 1974, but it became the year's biggest box office hit. Above, Cleavon Little, left, as Sheriff Bart...
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,...
