Cleavon Little
Bart
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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 ...
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. 22,618 IMDb 7.7 1 h 32 min 1974. X-Ray R. Comedy · Western · Tense · Visceral. Available to rent or buy. Rent movie.
May 21, 2023. May 9, 2023. In this satirical take on Westerns, crafty railroad worker Bart (Cleavon Little) becomes the first black sheriff of Rock Ridge, a frontier town about to be destroyed in...
Feb 29, 2024 · February 29, 20242:00 PM ET. Heard on All Things Considered. Bob Mondello. 4-Minute Listen. Playlist. Enlarge this image. Mel Brooks' satirical Western Blazing Saddles got mixed reviews when it...
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 ...
R. YouTube Movies & TV. 180M subscribers. Subscribed. 4.2K. Ribald, tasteless and hilarious ... this classic spoof of the Western genre by director Mel Brooks pokes fun at everyone and everything.
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.
