Cleavon Little
Bart
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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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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.
Jan 23, 2003 · Blazing Saddles (1974) 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 Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman) to get the residents of Rock Ridge ...
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. 22,698 IMDb 7.7 1 h 32 min 1974. X-Ray R.
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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...
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.
Overview. 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.
