Blazing Saddles (1974)
Written and directed by Mel Brooks, Blazing Saddles stars Cleavon Little as Bart, a black sheriff appointed in a small frontier town by Hedley Lamarr, a railroad man who believes Bart's appointment will destabilize the town enough to drive everyone out and allow him to build a new railroad line through it. Instead, with the help of gunslinger Jim the Waco Kid, Bart works to thwart Lamarr's schemes. Gene Wilder and Harvey Korman star alongside Little.
Blazing Saddles
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- Director
- Mel Brooks
- Release Date
- February 7, 1974
- Studio(s)
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Distributor(s)
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Cast
- Cleavon Little , Gene Wilder , Slim Pickens , Harvey Korman , Madeline Kahn , Mel Brooks
- Writers
- Mel Brooks , Norman Steinberg , Andrew Bergman , Richard Pryor , Alan Uger
- Runtime
- 93 minutes
- Budget
- $2.6 million
Summary
In order to ruin a western town, a corrupt politician appoints a black Sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.
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