Blazing Saddles (40th Anniversary) (Blu-ray) R
Never give a saga an even break!
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 33 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 6, 2014
- Originally Released: 1974
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Cleavon Little & Gene Wilder | |
Performer: | Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman, Mel Brooks, Slim Pickens, Burton Gilliam & Alex Karras | |
Directed by | Mel Brooks | |
Edited by | Danford B. Greene & John C. Howard | |
Screenwriting by | Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor & Alan Unger | |
Composition by | John Morris | |
Produced by | Michael Hertzberg | |
Director of Photography: | Joseph F. Biroc |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
A movie that neither blazes or misfires, falling somewhere between the horrors of Spaceballs and the genius of Young Frankenstein.
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Total Film
More than simply a loving spoof of Hollywood westerns, Blazing Saddles is one of the funniest movies ever made... and one of the most audacious satires of racism to come out of Hollywood.
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Goldarned if the whole fool enterprise is not worth the attention of any moviegoer with a penchant for what one actor, commenting on another's Gabby Hayes imitation, calls 'authentic western gibberish.'
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TIME Magazine
Rating: 4/5 --
An extraordinarily gutsy film.
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Alternate Ending
It is a gigantic send-up of the western, as if that sad and nearly deserted genre needed any more grief... Brooks picks over the bones drying in the sun and constructs a hilarious skeleton for our amusement.
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Los Angeles Free Press
Mel Brooks has come up with his most outrageous comedy to date in the brilliantly funny Blazing Saddles.
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Hollywood Reporter
[I]t's still unfailingly hilarious, and it's practically overflowing with real heart and warmth...
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Product Description:
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.