Blazing Saddles Details

Blazing Saddles

A hilarious, madcap spoof of nearly every Hollywood Western convention, BLAZING SADDLES turns racism on its head at every turn. When the sheriff of a small frontier town is killed, convict Bart (Cleavon Little) is appointed the first black sheriff of the all-white Rock Ridge by the evil Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman) in a bid to chase the townspeople from their homes. The naive Sheriff Bart soon realizes 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 sensitive town drunk (Gene Wilder), formerly the Waco Kid, Bart embarks on a plan to help 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 hysterical.

Director Mel Brooks, working from an hilarious script-- written, by among others, Richard Pryor—makes two memorable appearances as both the sleazy governor and a Yiddish-speaking Sioux Indian chief, while Madeline Kahn does a side-splitting Marlene Dietrich imitation as the town floozy/entertainer. Featuring fabulous comic turns by Alex Karras, Slim Pickens, and the aforementioned Little, Brooks, Korman, and Wilder, BLAZING SADDLES is one of the raunchiest, funniest, and most beloved spoofs ever made.

Starring	Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Madeline Kahn, Alex Karras, David Huddleston, Claude Ennis Starrett Jr.
Director	Mel Brooks
Studio	WARNER HOME VIDEO
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 29 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 29 mins HD DVD: 1 hr 29 mins
Certificate
Collections	100 Wild Westerns
Genres	Comedy
Language	English
Dubbed	French, Italian
Hearing-impaired	English, Italian
Subtitles	Arabic, Dutch, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
Released	DVD: 19 Jul 2004 Blu-ray: 26 Mar 2006 HD DVD: 26 Mar 2007 Production year: 1974
Format	DVD