Blazing Saddles (1974)
- Starring:
- Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, (more)
- Director(s):
- Mel Brooks
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R
- Format(s):
- DVD,
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Synopsis of Blazing Saddles
Vulgar, crude, and occasionally scandalous in its racial humor, this hilarious bad-taste spoof of Westerns, co-written by Richard Pryor, features Cleavon Little as the first black sheriff of a stunned town scheduled for demolition by an encroaching railroad. Little and co-star Gene Wilder have great chemistry, and the delightful supporting cast includes Harvey Korman, Slim Pickens, and Madeline Kahn as a chanteuse modelled on Marlene Dietrich. As in Young Frankenstein (1974), Silent Movie (1976), and High Anxiety (1977), director/writer Mel Brooks gives a burlesque spin to a classic Hollywood movie genre; in his own manic, Borscht Belt way, Brooks was a central player in revising classic genres in light of Seventies values and attitudes, an effort most often associated with such directors as Robert Altman and Peter Bogdanovich . Some of this film's sequences, notably a gaseous bean dinner around a campfire, have become comedy classics. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 93 mins
Complete Cast of Blazing Saddles
- Cleavon Little - Bart
- Slim Pickens - Taggart
- David Huddleston - Olson Johnson
- Mel Brooks - Indian Chief
- Madeline Kahn - Lili Von Shtupp
- Dom DeLuise - Buddy Bizarre
- George Furth - Van Johnson
- John Hillerman - Howard Johnson
- Claude Ennis Starrett, Jr. - Gabby Johnson
- Liam Dunn - Reverend Johnson
- Gene Wilder - Jim, the Waco Kid
- Harvey Korman - Hedley Lamarr
- Mel Brooks - Governor Lepetomane
- Alex Karras - Mongo
- Richard Collier - Dr. Sam Johnson
- Robyn Hilton - Miss Stein
- Don Megowan - Gum-chewer
- Carol Arthur - Harriett Johnson
- Charles McGregor - Charlie
- Burton Gilliam - Lyle
- Director(s):
- Mel Brooks
- Writer(s):
- Alan Uger, Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor
- Producer(s):
- Peter W. Wooley, Michael Hertzberg
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R(Adult Humor, Adult Language, Questionable for Children)
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