Blazing Saddles

1974
R
1h 33m

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7.7/10

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Farce Parody Slapstick Comedy Western

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.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.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.

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IMDb RATING

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Nominated for 3 Oscars
- 3 wins & 6 nominations total

Trivia
(at around 45 mins) Cleavon Little was not warned about the "you know. . . . morons" line. His reaction was real.

Goofs
(at around 1h 11 mins) In the sign up scene, Hedley Lamarr fires a two shot Derringer three times without reloading. This is a parody of a common "western" goof.

Quotes
[Bart returns unexpectedly after being sentenced to death]
Charlie: They said you was hung.
Bart: And they was right.

Crazy credits
The Warner Bros. logo appears on a black screen and burns away (in a homage to the Western show Bonanza (1959)), leading into the opening credits.

Alternate versions
The standard cable and commercial broadcast versions omit racial slurs and some bad language. Extent of the editing is contingent on whether the TV-PG, or TV-14 version is being shown.

Connections
Edited into 5 Second Movies: Blazing Saddles (2008)

Soundtracks
Blazing Saddles
Music by John Morris
Lyrics by Mel Brooks
Sung by Frankie Laine

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10/10

"Excuse me while I whip this out." Dead-pan funny

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. So, he brings Cleavon in to make the people leave (the people in town are racist including the line: "The sherrif is a nig! "What'd he say?" "He said the sherrif's a near). Funny story, funny jokes (the farting sequence is ahead of it's time for 1974) and 2 breakthroughs- Madedline Kahn in a Oscar nominated performance as Von Shtupp and shines through. The other is Richard Pryor, who co-writes the script with Brooks and Andrew Bergman. Hilarious, forever. A+