Blazing Saddles

Blazing Saddles1974

Director: Mel Brooks
Stars: Gene Wilder, Cleavon Little, Madeleine Kahn, Harvey Korman, Slim Pickens
Genre: Comedy, Western
Rating: R (Restricted)
Runtime: 93 minutes

Mel Brooks scored a commercial hit with this raucous Western spoof starring the late Cleavon Little as the newly hired (and conspicuously black) sheriff of Rock Ridge. Sheriff Bart teams up with deputy Jim (Gene Wilder) to foil the railroad-building… more »



Lyle:
[Taunting the mainly-black railworkers] When you was slaves, you sang like birds. Come on! How about a good old n*gger work song?

[Enraged, the workers move to attack him, but are stopped by Bart. He promptly proceeds to sing.]

Bart:
[Crooning, Sammy Davis, Jr.-style, with fellow railworkers providing backing vocals] I get no kick from champagne... Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all...[the bullying supervisors look immensely confused and insulted] so why then should it be true?... that I get a belt - outta you... Some get a kick from coca-yeai-yeaiiiinnnneee...

Lyle:
Hold it! Hold it! What the hell is that sh*t?! I meant a song! A real song! Something like [singing] "Swing low, sweet chariot"...

[The railworkers mumble to each other in mock confusion]

Lyle:
Don't know that one, huh. Well how about "De Camptown Ladies"?

Bart:
De Camptown Ladies?

Railworkers:
De Camptown Ladies?

Lyle:
Oh, you know! "De Camptown ladies sing this song, doo-dah, doo-dah! Camptown Race Track five miles long, oh-de-do-da-dahy!"

[The white supervisors begin joining in, complete with ludicrous dancing actions, much to the amusement of the railworkers. Suddenly, Taggart rides in aboard a galloping horse, shooting wildly into the air, interrupting the song, and scattering the white supervisors aside.]

Taggart:
What in the Wide Wide World of Sports is a-goin' on here? I hired you people to get some track laid, not to jump around like a bunch of Kansas City faggots!

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