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Bart
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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.
- February 7, 1974
- Michael Hertzberg
Feb 7, 1974 · 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.
- (147K)
- Comedy, Western
- Mel Brooks
- 1974-02-07
In order to ruin a western town, a corrupt politician appoints a black Sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary. A town where everyone seems to be named Johnson is in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, Hedley Lemar, a politically connected nasty person, sends in his henchmen to make the town unlivable ...
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.
- (12K)
- Mel Brooks
- R
- Cleavon Little
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. The price before discount is the median price for the last 90 days.
- 92 min
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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 ...
Feb 29, 2024 · 'Blazing Saddles,' The Best Interracial Buddy Comedy To satirize 1970s racial prejudice using 1870s characters, Brooks opted to become an equal-opportunity shredder of genres and conventions. A...
