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Blazing Saddles (30th Anniversary Special Edition) (1974)
Front Cover Actor
Cleavon Little
Gene Wilder
Movie Details
Genre Comedy
Director Mel Brooks
Language English
Audience Rating R (Restricted)
Country USA
Color Color
Plot
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 humor is so juvenile and crude that you just have to surrender to it; highlights abound, from the lunkheaded 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.
Personal Details
My Rating 8
Seen It Yes
Index 252
Collection Status In Collection
Links IMDB
User Text 1 Yes
Product Details
Format DVD
Region Region 1
UPC (Barcode) 085391895923
Release Date 9/14/2004
Nr of Disks/Tapes 1
Extra Features
Color Closed-captioned Widescreen Dolby Special Edition