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Blazing Saddles [Blu-ray] (WSE)

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Vulgar, crude, and occasionally scandalous in its racial humor, this hilarious bad-taste spoof of Westerns, co-written by Richard Pryor, features Cleavon Little as the first black sheriff of a stunned town scheduled for demolition by an encroaching railroad. Little and co-star Gene Wilder have great chemistry, and the delightful supporting cast includes Harvey Korman, Slim Pickens, and Madeline Kahn as a chanteuse modelled on Marlene Dietrich. As in Young Frankenstein 1974, Silent Movie 1976, and High Anxiety 1977, directorwriter Mel Brooks gives a burlesque spin to a classic Hollywood movie genre; in his own manic, Borscht Belt way, Brooks was a central player in revising classic genres in light of Seventies values and attitudes, an effort most often associated with such directors as Robert Altman and Peter Bogdanovich . Some of this film's sequences, notably a gaseous bean dinner around a campfire, have become comedy classics. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide.

ccAdditional scenesScene-specific commentary by Mel Brooks2 documentaries: Back in the Saddle, Intimate Portrait: Madeline Kahn excerptBlack Bart: 1975 pilot episode of the proposed TV series spinoffTheatrical trailer.

ccAdditional scenesScene-specific commentary by Mel Brooks2 documentaries: Back in the Saddle, Intimate Portrait: Madeline Kahn excerptBlack Bart: 1975 pilot episode of the proposed TV series spinoffTheatrical trailer.

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