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Blazing Saddles, 1974

Starring: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder

Directed by: Mel Brooks

Written by: Mel Brooks

Language: English, Yiddish

Country: USA

Runtime: 93 min

MPAA Rating:

Rating:7.7

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The mood of Blazing Saddles is humorous, witty, and exciting. The plot centers around antiheroes, disorder, and an odd couple. It features silly humor and irreverent humor. Blazing Saddles is a comedy, western, and parody movie. In approach, it is not serious and realistic. It takes place, at least partly, in a small town and in the desert. Blazing Saddles happens in the Old West and in the 19th century. The movie is known for being a blockbuster, an award winner, and critically acclaimed. It is especially suggested for teens.

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A madcap spoof of the classic Hollywood Western, Blazing Saddles is also one of the most gleefully anti-P.C. films ever produced by a major studio. When the sheriff of a small frontier town is killed, convict Bart (Cleavon Little) is appointed the first black sheriff of all-white Rock Ridge by the evil Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman), who hopes this will chase the townspeople from their homes. The naive Sheriff Bart soon catches on, realizing from the less than cheery welcome that the townspeople (who all seem to be named Johnson) aren't prepared for a black sheriff and that he was never meant to succeed at all. Enlisting the help of the sensitive town drunk (Gene Wilder), formerly the Waco Kid, Bart embarks on a plan to save Rock Ridge. A scathing spoof that deals with racism, sexism, and bodily functions, Blazing Saddles offers a contrast between picture and words that is shocking, subversive, and hilarious. Director Mel Brooks makes two memorable appearances--as both the sleazy governor and a Yiddish-speaking Sioux Indian chief--while Madeline Kahn does a sidesplitting Marlene Dietrich imitation as the town floozy. Featuring fabulous comic turns by Alex Karras and Slim Pickens, Blazing Saddles is raunchy, lovable, and uproarious.

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Language:	English, Yiddish
Country:	USA
Release date:	7 February 1974
Runtime:	93 min

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Cleavon Little

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Gene Wilder

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what's there to add to this review? amazing. I can't believe I've lived 28 years and have never seen this. Of course, some of the lines I've heard from other movies or referenced in popular culture, but never had made the connection before. I'd say... Read and rate it

15.June.2010
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by: Dingus McKlintok
Dingus McKlintok rated this movie0/10

classic in my book

Who knew the Wild West was that funny :) One of Brooks' best. I don't know many people that could get a laugh out of such issues at the time this movie came out. Read and rate it

27.August.2008
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by: rotem.nevgaunker
rotem.nevgaunker rated this movie10/10Must See

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