Blazing Saddles

Blazing Saddles is a 1974 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 Bergmans story and draft. The movie was nominated for three Academy Awards, and is ranked No.on the American Film Institutes 100 Years...100 Laughs list.

In the American Old West of 1874, construction on a new railroad led by Lyle Burton Gilliam runs into quicksand. The route has to be changed, which will require it to go through Rock Ridge, a frontier town where everyone has the last name of Johnson including a Howard Johnson, a Dr. Samuel Johnson, a Van Johnson and an Olson N. Johnson. The conniving State Attorney General Hedley Lamarr Harvey Korman who constantly has to correct people who call him Hedy, the name of a movie star, instead of Hedley wants to buy the land along the new railroad route cheaply by driving out the townspeople. He sends a gang of thugs, led by his flunky assistant Taggart Slim Pickens, to scare them away, prompting the townsfolk to demand that Governor William J. Le Petomane Mel Brooks appoint a new sheriff. Lamarr persuades the dimwitted Le Petomane to select Bart Cleavon Little, a black railroad worker who was about to be hanged, as he believes a black lawman will so offend the townspeople that they will either abandon Rock Ridge or lynch the new sheriff, with either result paving the way for him to take over the town.With his quick wits and the assistance of drunken gunslinger Jim Gene Wilder, also known as The Waco Kid I must have killed more men than Cecil B. DeMille, Bart works to overcome the townsfolks hostile reception. He defeats and befriends Mongo Alex Karras, an immensely strong, slowthinking but surprisingly philosophical henchman sent by Taggart and Lyle to kill Bart, and then beats German seductressforhire Lili von Shtupp Madeline Kahn at her own game. Lamarr is furious that his plans keep failing and decides to destroy Rock Ridge with a newly recruited and diverse army of thugs. ........

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