Blazing Saddles

Director

Mel Brooks

Classification

15

Genres

Comedy, Wester

DVD Relese Date

1974

Description

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 dimwitted 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!

Cast

Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Alex Karras, Harvey Korman, Dom De Luise, David Huddleston, Cleavon Little

Fun Film Info

Trivia: the Indian Chief played by Mel Brooks speaks Yiddish. He says: "Blacks!" "Let them go!" "Have you ever seen in your life?" Goofs: while the cowboys try to get the railroad workers to sing, the cowboys sing and the banjo player plays the banjo but no sound is heard at all. Quotes: Lyle: Come on, boys! The way you're lollygaggin' around here with them picks and them shovels, you'd think it was a hundert an' twenty degree. Can't be more than a hundert an' fourteen.

Quotes

Bart: You are my guest, and I am your host. What is your pleasure? What do you like to do? Jim: I don't know... play chess... screw... Bart: [quickly] Let's play chess.

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