Stars: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Madeline Kahn, Mel Brooks, Alex Carras, David Huddleston, Claude Ennis Starrett Jr.

Director: Mel Brooks

Summary: A Wild West parody, where a black railroad worker and an alcoholic ex-gunfighter foil a crooked attorney and his henchmen.

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Mel Brooks scored his first commercial hit with this raucous Western spoof starring the late Cleavon Little as the newly hired (and conspicuously black) sheriff of Rock Ridge. Sheriff Bart teams up with deputy Jim (Gene Wilder) to foil the railroad-building scheme of the nefarious Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman). The simple plot is just an excuse for a steady stream of gags, many of them unabashedly tasteless, that Brooks and his wacky cast pull off with side-splitting success. The humour is so juvenile and crude that you just have to surrender to it; highlights abound, from Alex Karras as the ox-riding Mongo to Madeline Kahn's uproarious send-up of Marlene Dietrich as saloon songstress Lili Von Shtupp. Adding to the comedic excess is the infamous campfire scene involving a bunch of hungry cowboys, heaping servings of baked beans and, well, you get the idea. --Jeff Shannon

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Year:	1974
Release Date:	July 19, 2004
Runtime:	89 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	D 201965
Keywords:	Special, Comedy, Blazing, Saddles, Box, General, Edition, Stills, Set, Anniversary, Cards, Poster, 30th, Senitype
Genre:	Comedy