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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 · A black sheriff (Cleavon Little) is appointed by a corrupt politician (Harvey Korman) to ruin a western town, but he becomes its savior with the help of a drunken gunslinger (Gene Wilder). IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this Mel Brooks classic.
- (153K)
- Comedy, Western
- Mel Brooks
- 1974-02-07
Find out who starred in and worked behind the scenes of the classic comedy film Blazing Saddles, directed by Mel Brooks and written by Brooks, Bergman, Pryor and others. See the full list of actors, writers, producers, composers and more on IMDb.
A comedy western film about a black sheriff who fights a corrupt politician and his henchmen to save a town from being destroyed by a railroad. The film features satire, parody, and breaking the fourth wall, with a cast of famous actors and comedians.
Blazing Saddles. 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 comedy romp that takes on racism and the wild Wild West. 22,854 IMDb 7.7 1 h 32 min 1974. X-Ray R. Comedy · Western · Tense · Visceral. Free trial of Paramount+, rent, or buy.
- 92 min
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....
- (71)
- Comedy, Western
- R
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A comedy Western with Cleavon Little as a black sheriff and Gene Wilder as his deputy, facing land speculators and a man-killing woman. Roger Ebert praises the movie's excess, vulgarity and Hollywood fantasy, but criticizes its structure and pace.
