Blazing saddles

Resource Information

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Label

Blazing saddles

Statement of responsibility

Warner Bros. Pictures ; a Mel Brooks film ; screenplay by Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Alan Uger ; story by Andrew Bergman ; produced by Michael Hertzberg ; directed by Mel Brooks

Title variation

Mel Brooks' Blazing saddles

Creator

• Blazing saddles (Motion picture)

Contributor

• Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- )
• Warner Home Video (Firm)
• Bergman, Andrew
• Biroc, Joseph, 1903-1996
• Brooks, Mel, 1926-
• Dunn, Liam, 1916-1976
• Furth, George, 1932-2008
• Hertzberg, Michael
• Hillerman, John
• Huddleston, David, 1930-
• Kahn, Madeline
• Karras, Alex
• Korman, Harvey, 1927-2008
• Laine, Frankie, 1913-2007
• Little, Cleavon
• Morris, John, 1926-
• Pickens, Slim
• Pryor, Richard
• Starrett, Jack, 1936-1989
• Steinberg, Norman
• Uger, Alan
• Wilder, Gene, 1935-

Subject

• African American police -- West (U.S.) -- Drama
• Comedy -- Feature
• Comedy films
• Comedy films
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Parody -- Feature
• Parody films
• Railroad companies -- Drama
• Sheriffs -- West (U.S.) -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• West (U.S.) -- Ethnic relations -- Drama
• Western -- Feature
• Western films
• Western films

Genre

• Comedy
• Comedy films
• Drama
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Parody
• Parody films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Western
• Western films

Language

• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng

Summary

Never give a saga an even break! Blazing Saddles is an iconoclastic, not-politically-correct parody; one of the 1970s most successful and popular films. Every clichéd element from every Western ever made is turned upside down and inside out, while retaining all the familiar caricatures--eh, characters--of the genre: a dance-hall girl, a gunslinger, a sheriff, and a town full of pure folk. Mel Brooks redefined film comedy, and proved that even sophomoric, scatological humor could be used to ridicule prejudice, injustice, and apathy

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Joseph Biroc ; film editors, John C. Howard, Danford Greene ; choreography by Alan Johnson ; music composed and conducted by John Morris ; original songs "I'm Tired", "The French Mistake" and "The Ballad of Rock Ridge" music and lyrics by Mel Brooks, "Blazing Saddles" music by John Morris, lyrics by Mel Brooks, sung by Frankie Laine

Intended audience

MPAA rating: Rated R

Language note

In English, Français, or Español with optional subtitles in English, Français, or Español; closed-captioned

PerformerNote

Cleavon Little (Bart), Gene Wilder (Jim), Slim Pickens (Taggart), David Huddleston (Olson Johnson), Liam Dunn (Rev. Johnson), Alex Karras (Mongo), John Hillerman (Howard Johnson), George Furth (Van Johnson), Claude Ennis Starrett Jr. (Gabby Johnson), Mel Brooks (Governor Lepetomane), Harvey Korman (Hedley Lamarr), Madeline Kahn (Lili Von Shtupp)

Runtime

93

Target audience

general

Technique

live action