Blazing Saddles (1974)

R

poster for Blazing Saddles (1974) The Ultimate Western Spoof. A town where everyone seems to be named Johnson is in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, Hedley Lemar, a politically connected nasty person, sends in his henchmen to make the town unlivable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor. Hedley convinces him to send the town the first Black sheriff in the west.

CAST: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman

DIRECTOR: Mel Brooks

RUN TIME: 93 min