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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 and steal their land, a corrupt politician appoints a black sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.
- (154K)
- Comedy, Western
- Mel Brooks
- 1974-02-07
Blazing Saddles is one of the funniest movies to not only to come from Mel Brooks, but from cinema itself. Film stars Cleavon Little as a regular black laborer, but then a villain (Heldey Lamarr is perfectly played by Harvey Korman) wants to move a community out of the town Rockridge.
Blazing Saddles. 73. Metascore. 12 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com. 100. Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert. It's a crazed grabbag of a movie that does everything to keep us laughing except hit us over the head with a rubber chicken. Mostly, it succeeds.
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.
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. Read Critics Reviews
- (71)
- Mel Brooks
- R
- Cleavon Little
The film received generally positive reviews from critics and audiences, was nominated for three Academy Awards and is ranked number six on the American Film Institute 's 100 Years...100 Laughs list.
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Mel Brooks ' BLAZING SADDLES lampoons the Western genre, mocking its conventions as well as its racist undertones. Greedy magnate Hedley Lamarr ( Harvey Korman) plans to steal a plot of land away from the kindly townsfolk of Rock Ridge.
