Blazing Saddles
Directed by
Mel Brooks
Starring
Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, David Huddleston, Mel Brooks, Harvey Korman

One of Mel Brooks' funniest and most popular films, an unsubtle spoof or parody of all the cliches from the time-honored genre of westerns is the iconoclastic Blazing Saddles (1974). Its tagline blurb advertised: "Blazing Saddles...or never give a saga an even break!" The crude film includes the main elements of any western - a dance-hall girl, a gunslinger, a sheriff, and a town full of pure folk, etc. but it twists them around. This was Brooks' second major film.
The absurd, tactless film opens, under the credits, with the original title song (playing now) sung by Frankie Laine, parodying and satirizing his own classic western tune - "Mule Train"
When the sheriff of a small frontier town is killed, convict Bart is appointed the first black sheriff of the all-white Rock Ridge by the evil Hedley Lamarr in a plot to chase the townspeople from their homes. The naive Sheriff Bart soon realizes that the townspeople (who all seem to be called Johnson) aren't prepared for a black sheriff and that he was never meant to succeed at all.

Top 5 Blazing Saddles quotes!
  1. Work, work, work! Work, work, work! Hello boys. Have a good nights rest. I missed you!
  2. Read it! Read it, you wild bitch!
  3. I didn't get a 'harrumph' out of that guy!
  4. You've gotta remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the New West. You know ... morons.
  5. I know how we can run everybody out of Rock Ridge. How? We'll kill the first born male child in every household!
    Too Jewish.

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Blazing Saddles is one of the funniest movies ever made. Obvious gag jokes coupled with sly humor about race, sex, and stereotypes make for, not just a fun movie, but a movie to watch again and again. It's just plain entertaining, whether it's a first viewing or a fifteenth.