Blazing Saddles details
Movie Details:
- Director: Mel Brooks
- Year: 1974
- Run Time: 105 minutes
- Country: USA
- Language: English
- MPAA Rating: R
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Western, Comedy
- Filmed In: Color
- Key Cast: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman, David Huddleston, Mel Brooks, Alex Karras, Madeline Kahn, Full Credits
- Awards: Best Editing (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie 1974), Best Song (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie 1974), Best Supporting Actress (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie 1974), Full Awards
Vulgar, crude, and occasionally scandalous in its racial humor, this hilarious bad-taste spoof of Westerns, co-written by Richard Pryor, features Cleavon Little as the first black sheriff of a stunned town scheduled for demolition by an encroaching railroad. Little and co-star Gene Wilder have great chemistry, and the delightful supporting cast includes Harvey Korman, Slim Pickens, and Madeline Kahn as a chanteuse modelled on Marlene Dietrich. As in Young Frankenstein (1974), Silent Movie (1976), and High Anxiety (1977), director/writer Mel Brooks gives a burlesque spin to a classic Hollywood movie genre; in his own manic, Borscht Belt way, Brooks was a central player in revising classic genres in light of Seventies values and attitudes, an effort most often associated with such directors as Robert Altman and Peter Bogdanovich . Some of this film's sequences, notably a gaseous bean dinner around a campfire, have become comedy classics. by Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
Keywords:
- bigotry
- con/scam
- gunfighter
- lawman
- politician
- railroad
- sheriff
- Wild-West
- life-changes
Themes:
- Sheriffs and Outlaws
- Race Relations
