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Overview

User Rating:
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Director:
Mel Brooks
Writers:
Mel Brooks (screenplay) &
Norman Steinberg (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
7 February 1974 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Western more
Tagline:
Never give a saga an even break!
Plot:
To ruin a western town, a corrupt political boss appoints a black sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(55 articles)
Walk This Way: Nine-Disc Mel Brooks Blu-ray Set!
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What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #12
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User Comments:
"Excuse me while I whip this out." Dead-pan funny more (297 total)

Cast

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Black Bart (USA) (working title)
Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles or Never Give a Saga an Even Break (USA) (poster title)
Tex X (USA) (original script title)
The Purple Sage (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
93 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | Yiddish
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) (re-rating) (2004) | Canada:A (Nova Scotia) (original rating) | Finland:K-12 | Portugal:M/12 | UK:12A (re-rating: 2008) | Argentina:Atp | Australia:M | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Norway:16 | Singapore:PG | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:R | West Germany:12

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Trivia:
In the DVD Commentary, Mel Brooks said that the working title for the film was "Tex X" as a reference to black Muslim leader Malcolm X. It was then switched to "Black Bart". In either case, neither he, nor the other writers thought those were great titles. Brooks says that one morning he was taking a shower and the words Blazing Saddles (1974) suddenly popped into his head. When he got out of the shower, he pitched the title to his wife, actress Anne Bancroft, who liked the idea and that's how the movie ended up with its title. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Bart arrives in Rock Ridge and the "Welcome Sheriff" banner retracts, it flips once, leaving some of the writing still visible. When Bart walks over to unfurl it again, it is neatly closed with no writing visible. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Lyle: Come on, boys! The way you're lollygaggin' around here with them picks and them shovels, you'd think it was a hundert an' twenty degree. Can't be more than a hundert an' fourteen.
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Movie Connections:
References "ABC's Wide World of Sports" (1961) more
Soundtrack:
Merrily We Roll Along more

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68 out of 83 people found the following comment useful.
"Excuse me while I whip this out." Dead-pan funny, 16 June 2000
10/10
Author: MisterWhiplash from United States

Blazing Saddles is one of the funniest movies to not only to come from Mel Brooks, but from cinema itself. Film stars Cleavon Little as a regular black laborer, but then a villain (Heldey Lamarr is perfectly played by Harvey Korman) wants to move a community out of the town Rockridge. So, he brings Cleavon in to make the people leave (the people in town are racist including the line: "The sherrif is a nig! "What'd he say?" "He said the sherrif's a near). Funny story, funny jokes (the farting sequence is ahead of it's time for 1974) and 2 breakthroughs- Madedline Kahn in a Oscar nominated performance as Von Shtupp and shines through. The other is Richard Pryor, who co-writes the script with Brooks and Andrew Bergman. Hilarious, forever. A+

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