Blazing Saddles

Blazing Saddles Soundtrack

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 scheme of the nefarious Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman). The simple plot is just an excuse for a steady stream of gags, many of them unabashedly tasteless, that Brooks and his wacky cast pull off with side-splitting success. The humor is so juvenile and crude that you just have to surrender to it; highlights abound, from the lunkheaded Alex Karras as the ox-riding Mongo to Madeline Kahn's uproarious send-up of Marlene Dietrich as saloon songstress Lili Von Shtupp. Adding to the comedic excess is the infamous campfire scene involving a bunch of hungry cowboys, heaping servings of baked beans and, well, you get the idea. --Jeff Shannon

Genre: Comedy, Western
Director: Mel Brooks
Stars: Gene Wilder, Cleavon Little, Madeleine Kahn, Harvey Korman, Slim Pickens
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Metacritic:
73
Rotten Tomatoes:
90%
R (Restricted)
Year:
1974
93
Website
43,559 Views
#SongDuration
1Main Title2:29
2April in Paris1:03
3Hoop-Dee-Doo0:38
4Transitions0:23
5Mongo0:33
6Merrily We Roll Along0:10
7I'm Tired5:28
8Finale1:54
9I Get a Kick Out of You0:35
10Hail to the Chief0:11
11Springtime for Hitler0:11

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