BLAZING SADDLES SBART MONGO GUN MOVIE
The movie boasts glorious turns from Cleavon Little as black sheriff Bart, Gene Wilder as his drunken sidekick, the Waco Kid, and Harvey Korman as wicked lawyer Hedley Lamarr. Some even say it’s Brooks’s most hilarious movie, though it’s a close thing with and Young Frankenstein and The Producers, and they are arguably more sophisticated and cleverer. Made in the same year as his other masterwork Young Frankenstein, it’s still one of his funniest films, with a witty screwball screenplay and a hand-picked cast on tremendous comic form. Mel Brooks’s brilliant, big, brash, bawdy, good-natured Western satire was his box-office breakthrough after the cult successes of The Producers (1967) and The Twelve Chairs (1970). And the duo go into action against the prejudice, trickery and deception threatening the town’s law and order. So now help is at hand for the oppressed townsfolk in the form of Sheriff Bart and a hard-drinking gunslinger called the Waco Kid, who rides into town. The Governor sends in a sophisticated townie as a new sheriff nobody will like, but this idea backfires when the new lawman unexpectedly becomes Lamarr’s number one adversary. The old town sheriff is killed and Lamarr persuades the Governor to appoint the West’s first black sheriff. Everyone in town seems to be called Johnson, one even Van Johnson, after the actor. The residents of the little Western town of Rock Ridge find themselves the pathetic victims of its corrupt political boss, the exceptionally rotten bad guy Hedley Lamarr (boo, hiss!), and his wicked henchmen.
Blazing Saddles ***** (1974, Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn, Alex Karras, David Huddleston, John Hillerman, Dom DeLuise, Mel Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 215Īnything goes in Mel Brooks’s 1974 Western spoof comedy classic.
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