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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.
And "Blazing Saddles" is like that from beginning to end, except for a couple of slow stretches. The baked bean scene alone qualifies the movie for some sort of Wretched Excess award. Then there's the whole business of Mongol (Alex Karris) who is a kind of dimwitted Paul Bunyan. He rides into town on an ox, sent to eliminate Bart, but is ...
Jan 23, 2003 · Blazing Saddles - now available in a 30th Anniversary Special Edition from Warner Video - is quintessential Mel Brooks - a Western spoof loaded with inside jokes, anachronisms, toilet humor and the director's favorite actors performing his favorite form of broad burlesque comedy. Cleavon Little is Bart, a black sheriff hired by the nefarious ...
Written by on January 12, 2023. A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lamarr sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the ...
Feb 29, 2024 · Blazing Saddles starts out like many a Western before it: Big Sky country, a wide open prairie in the 1870s being tamed by a railroad. The foreman is white, his workers mostly African American ...
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Blazing Saddles - Apple TV. Irreverent spoof about a black sheriff hired by a crooked speculator to drive citizens out of an all-white town which lies in the path of a railroad. The townspeople turn on the inexperienced sheriff, and he is forced to turn to a convict, once the fastest gun in the West, for help. Comedy 1974 1 hr 33 min.
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 ...
