Blazing Saddles

About Blazing Saddles

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.

Blazing Saddles (1974) is a comedy western film directed by Mel Brooks. Cleavon Little appears as Bart, Gene Wilder as Jim, Slim Pickens as Taggart, and Harvey Korman as Hedley Lamarr.

Released in February 1974, it runs 93 minutes. Written by Alan Uger and Andrew Bergman.

Members will find parody, alcoholism, gun, and spoof in it. It scores 7.2 out of 10 from 2,181 TMDB voters and it carries a R rating.

Scary Movie, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and Isn't It Romantic make useful companions to Blazing Saddles, all filed under absurd and satire.