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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. The film stars Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder.
- February 7, 1974
- Michael Hertzberg
Feb 7, 1974 · A black sheriff (Cleavon Little) is appointed by a corrupt politician (Harvey Korman) to ruin a western town in order to build a railroad. The film parodies many western clichés and features racial humor, slapstick, and satire.
- (147K)
- Comedy, Western
- Mel Brooks
- 1974-02-07
Find out who starred in and worked on 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.
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- (12K)
- Mel Brooks
- R
- Cleavon Little
A classic western comedy film directed by Mel Brooks and starring Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder and Harvey Korman. Watch clips of the hilarious scenes and learn more about the film details, awards and trivia.
- Mel Brooks
- Cleavon Little
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A comedy western film about a black sheriff who fights a corrupt politician and his henchmen to save a town from a railroad. The plot involves a fake town, a tollbooth, a pie fight, and a breaking of the fourth wall.
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. 22,686 IMDb 7.7 1 h 32 min 1974. X-Ray R. Comedy · Western · Tense · Visceral. Available to rent or buy. Rent movie.
