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Features: DVD, Deluxe Edition
The railroad's bound to run right through the sleepy town of Rock Ridge. Land there will be worth a fortune--but the townsfolk already own their own land. How do you drive them out? Send in the roughest, toughest, leanest, meanest gang you've got...and appoint a new sheriff you figure will last about 24 hours. But that's not really the plot of Blazing Saddles, just the pretext! Once Mel Brooks' lunatic film gets under way, logic is lost in a blizzard of gags, jokes, quips, puns, howlers, growlers and outrageous assaults upon good taste--or any taste at all. Brooks has had audiences rolling in the aisles for more than 30 years. From Your Show Of Shows as a writer, The 2000-Year-Old Man as a performer to the Academy Award-winning short The Critic as irreverent narrator, and on to movie hits by the handful--The Producers (1968, an Oscar winner for Brooks' screenplay), The 12 Chairs (1970), Young Frankenstein (1974), Silent Movie (1976), High Anxiety (1978), History Of The World-Part I (1981) and To Be Or Not To Be (1983)--Brooks isn't just off the wall comedy; he blows the wall away. But Blazing Saddles is his masterpiece. And it's also the funniest Western ever made. Cleavon Little as the new lawman, Gene Wilder as the wacko Waco Kid, Brooks himself as a dimwitted politico and Madeline Kahn in her Marlene Dietrich send up that earned an Academy Award nomination all give this sagebrush saga their lunatic best. And when Blazing Saddles can no longer contain itself at its finale, it just goes to show you that the Old West will never be the same.
"Little and Wilder have impeccable comic timing, delightful chemistry, and some outrageous gags." At-A-Glance Film Reviews
Editor's Note
A madcap spoof of the classic Hollywood Western, BLAZING SADDLES is also one of the most gleefully anti-P.C. films ever produced by a major studio. When the sheriff of a small frontier town is killed, convict Bart (Cleavon Little) is appointed the first black sheriff of all-white Rock Ridge by the evil Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman), who hopes this will chase the townspeople from their homes. The naive Sheriff Bart soon catches on, realizing from the less than cheery welcome that the townspeople (who all seem to be named Johnson) aren't prepared for a black sheriff and that he was never meant to succeed at all. Enlisting the help of the sensitive town drunk (Gene Wilder), formerly the Waco Kid, Bart embarks on a plan to save Rock Ridge. A scathing spoof that deals with racism, sexism, and bodily functions, BLAZING SADDLES offers a contrast between picture and words that is shocking, subversive, and hilarious. Director Mel Brooks makes two memorable appearances--as both the sleazy governor and a Yiddish-speaking Sioux Indian chief--while Madeline Kahn does a sidesplitting Marlene Dietrich imitation as the town floozy. Featuring fabulous comic turns by Alex Karras and Slim Pickens, BLAZING SADDLES is raunchy, lovable, and uproarious.
| Features | Original One Sheet Movie Poster (27”X40”) | | Six Original Limited Edition Black and White Photograph Stills | | Widescreen Version | | A Complete Set of Eight Lobby Card Prints | | Exclusive Limited Edition Image From Movie and 35mm Film Frame | | Spanish Track | | Standard Version | | Theatrical Trailer | | Production Notes | | Scene Access | | Spanish Subtitles | | French Track | | Interactive Menus | | New 55-Minute Mel Brooks Interview | | English Subtitles | | English Track | | French Subtitles |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Creative Design Art |
| Release Date: 11/7/2000 |
| Running Time: 93 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1974 | | Catalog ID: 201082 | | UPC: 00663286201082 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 2.35:1/4:3 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (1975) | | | Danford B. Greene, et al., Nominee, Best Film Editing | | | Mel Brooks, et al., Nominee, Best Music, Song | | | Madeline Kahn, Nominee, Best Supporting Actress | |
British Academy Awards (1975) | | | Cleavon Little, Nominee, Best Newcomer | | | Andrew Bergman, et al., Nominee, Best Screenplay |
| Memorable Quotes| "It's not Hedy. It's Hedley. Hedley Lamarr"----Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman)|"What the hell are you worried about? This is 1874. You'll be able to sue her."----Governor Lepetomane (Mel Brooks) | | "My name is Jim. But most people call me...Jim."----Jim (Gene Wilder) to Sheriff Bart (Cleavon Little) | | "Yeah, but I shoot with this hand."----Jim | | "If you shoot him, you'll just make him mad."----Jim to Sheriff Bart, about Mongo (Alex Karras) | | "Excuse me while I whip this out."----Sheriff Bart | | "I got it! I know how we can run everybody out of Rock Ridge...We'll kill the firstborn male child of every household."----Taggart (Slim Pickens)|"Too Jewish."----Lamarr | | "Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!"----Mexican bandit | | "You'd do it for Randolph Scott."----Sheriff Bart|"Randolph Scott!"----the townspeople | | "I didn't get a 'harrumph' out of that guy!"----Governor Lepetomane|"Give the governor a 'harrumph!'"----Lamarr|"Harrumph!"----Reporter|"You watch your ass."----Governor | | "Can't you see that's the last act of a desperate man?"----Sheriff Bart|"We don't care if it's the first act of HENRY V, we're leaving!"----villager |
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| | Professional Reviews | USA Today
"...This cowboy-tweaking smash was great in its day..." 07/03/1997 p.3DEntertainment Weekly
"...Brooks' success left an unmistakable scent on movies from AIRPLANE! To AMERICAN PIE..." 01/11/2002 p.36 Premiere
"[I]t's still unfailingly hilarious, and it's practically overflowing with real heart and warmth..." 07/01/2004 p.111 Sight and Sound
"Gene Wilder is ingenuous..." 09/01/2004 p.94 Widescreen Review
"In a hilarious assault on good taste, BLAZING SADDLES stars Cleavon Little as an unlikely sheriff and Gene Wilder as the wacko Waco Kid..." 07/01/2006 p.64 |
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