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Blazing Saddles

Blazing Saddles
Blazing saddles movie poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
by John Alvin
Directed by Mel Brooks
Produced by Michael Hertzberg
Screenplay by
Story by Andrew Bergman
Starring
Music by
Cinematography Joseph Biroc
Edited by
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release date
  • February 7, 1974 (1974-02-07)
Running time
92 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $2.6 million
Box office $119.6 million

Blazing Saddles is a 1974 American satirical Western comedy film directed by Mel Brooks. Starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder, the film was written by Brooks, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, and Al Uger, and was based on Bergman's story and draft. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and audiences, and was nominated for three Academy Awards, and is ranked No. 6 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years...100 Laughs list.

Brooks appears in two supporting roles, Governor William J. Le Petomane and a Yiddish-speaking Indian chief; he also dubs lines for one of Lili von Shtupp's backing troupe. The supporting cast includes Slim Pickens, Alex Karras, and David Huddleston, as well as Brooks regulars Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn, and Harvey Korman. Bandleader Count Basie has a cameo as himself.

The film satirizes the racism obscured by myth-making Hollywood accounts of the American West, with the hero being a black sheriff in an all-white town. The film is full of deliberate anachronisms, from the Count Basie Orchestra playing "April in Paris" in the Wild West, to Slim Pickens referring to the Wide World of Sports, to the German army of World War II.


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