Blazing Saddles

Release Date:

Feb 7, 1974

MPAA Rating:

R

Running Time:

1:33

Genre:

Comedy, Western

Director:

Mel Brooks

Cast:

Cleavon Little	Bart
Gene Wilder	Jim: The Waco Kid
Madeline Kahn	Lili Von Shtupp
Slim Pickens	Taggart
David Huddleston	Olson Johnson
Liam Dunn	Reverend Johnson
Alex Karras	Mongo
John Hillerman	Howard Johnson
George Furth	Van Johnson
Mel Brooks	Governor William J. Le Petomane/ Indian Chief/ Cycle Hood
Harvey Korman	Hedley Lamarr, Attorney General/Assistant to the Governor/State Procurer
Dom DeLuise	Buddy Bizarre
Richard Collier	Dr. Sam Van Johnson
Count Basie	Himself

Producers:

Michael Hertzberg

Writers:

Andrew Bergman, Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, Alan Uger

Language:

English

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In this satirical take on Westerns, crafty railroad worker Bart becomes the first black sheriff of Rock Ridge, a frontier town about to be destroyed in order to make way for a new railroad. Initially, the people of Rock Ridge harbor a racial bias toward their new leader. However, they warm to him after realizing that Bart and his perpetually drunk gunfighter friend are the only defense against a wave of thugs sent to rid the town of its population.

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