Blazing Saddles (1974)

Movie: Blazing Saddles (1974)

  • Director: Mel Brooks
  • Release Date: 7 February 1974 (USA)
  • Writers: Mel Brooks (screenplay) & Norman Steinberg (screenplay) …  
  • Run Time: 93 min
  • Country: USA
  • Genre: Comedy , Western  

Tagline: Never give a saga an even break!

Trivia: Cameo: [Mel Brooks]In the outlaw recruitment line, smiling and wearing an aviators costume.
 

Goofs: Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): During the chess game, the Waco Kid’s right hand is steady as a rock, but he says he shoots with his fluttering left hand. But later in the movie when he detonates the dynamite, he shoots with his right hand.
 

“The Ultimate Western Spoof. A town where everyone seems to be named Johnson is in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, Hedley Lemar, a politically connected nasty person, sends in his henchmen to make the town unlivable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor. Hedley convinces him to send the town the first Black sheriff in the west. Bart is a sophisticated urbanite who will have some difficulty winning over the townspeople. Written by John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>”

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