Film
Blazing Saddles
1974· R· 1h 33m· Comedy· Western
“...or never give a saga an even break!”
Blazing Saddles (1974) skewers the Wild West genre with incisive satire and anarchic humor. Set in a frontier town where the populace is inexplicably named Johnson, the film sees a ruthless industrialist, Hedley Lamarr, dispatching thugs to make life intolerable. When the sheriff falls victim to their machinations, the Governor, misled by Hedley, appoints a black sheriff to the post, setting off a cascade of absurdity and racial commentary that dismantles stereotypes with gleeful abandon.
1974-02-07
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Key Crew
DirectorMel Brooks
ScreenplayAlan Uger
ProducerMichael Hertzberg
Director of PhotographyJoseph F. Biroc
Original Music ComposerJohn Morris
EditorDanford B. Greene
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Details
Released1974-02-07
Runtime1h 33m · R
StatusReleased
StudiosCrossbow Productions · Warner Bros. Pictures
Budget$3M
Box office$120M
LanguagesEnglish · Yiddish · German
CountriesUnited States of America
Rating7.2/10 · 2114 votes
Original languageen
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