Movies / 1974
Blazing Saddles
Completed
Crafty railroad worker Bart becomes the first Black sheriff of Rock Ridge, a frontier town about to be destroyed in order to make way for a new railroad. Initially, the citizens of Rock Ridge harbor a racial bias toward their new protector. However, they warm to him after realizing that Bart and his perpetually drunk gunfighter friend Jim are their only defense against a wave of thugs sent to rid the town of its population.
- Release year
- 1974
- Released
- Feb 7, 1974
- Country
- United States
- Genres
- Western · Comedy
- Directed by
- Mel Brooks
- Written by
- Andrew Bergman · Richard Pryor · Mel Brooks · Norman Steinberg · Alan Uger
- Cast
- Cleavon Little (Bart) · Gene Wilder (Jim) · Slim Pickens (Taggart) · Harvey Korman (Hedley Lamarr) · Madeline Kahn (Lili Von Shtupp) · Mel Brooks (William Le Petomane / Indian Chief) · Burton Gilliam (Lyle) · Alex Karras (Mongo) · David Huddleston (Olson Johnson) · Liam Dunn (Rev. Johnson)
Consumption history1
Completed
Netflix viewing. [netflix-1002cc98f7388c1ce8677266]
External identifiers
- tmdb
- 11072
- letterboxd
- 1UHQ