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Blazing Saddles (1974) is a satiric Western
comedy film directed by Mel Brooks. Starring Cleavon Little and Gene
Wilder, it was written by Brooks, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor,
Norman Steinberg, and Al Uger, and was based on Bergman's story and
draft. Brooks appears in multiple supporting roles, including
Governor Le Petomane and a Yiddish-speaking Indian Chief. Slim
Pickens, Alex Karras, David Huddleston, and Brooks regulars Dom
DeLuise, Madeline Kahn and Harvey Korman are also featured. Musician
Count Basie has a cameo as himself. |
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The railroad's got to run
through the town of Rock Ridge. How do you drive out the townfolk in
order to steal their land? Send in the toughest gang you've
got...and name a new sheriff who'll last about 24 hours. But that's
not really the plot of Blazing Saddles, just the pretext. Once Mel
Brooks' lunatic film many call his best gets started, logic is lost
in a blizzard of gags, jokes, quips, puns, howlers, growlers and
outrageous assaults upon good taste or any taste at all. Cleavon
Little as the new lawman, Gene Wilder as the wacko Waco Kid, Brooks
himself as a dim-witted politico and Madeline Kahn in her Marlene
Dietrich send-up that earned an Academy Award nomination all give
this sagebrush saga their lunatic best. And when Blazing Saddles
can't contain itself at the finale, it just proves the Old West will
never be the same!
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