“Blazing Saddles” is a comedy western, written by Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor and Alan Uger, from the Story by Andrew Bergman and Directed by Mel Brooks.
It’s the story of a town
where everyone seems to be named Johnson, but apart from that it’s in the way
of the railroad and in order to grab their land, a politically connected nasty
individual, Hedley Lemar (Harvey Korman), sends in his henchmen, lead by
Taggart (Slim Pickens) to make the town unliveable.
The town demands a
replacement, from the Governor, Lepetomane (Mel Brooks), after their Sheriff is
killed, and Hedley convinces him to send the town the first Black Sheriff in
the west.
Sherriff Bart (Cleavon
Little) is a sophisticated urbanite has some difficulty winning over the
townspeople but when he does he soon becomes Lemar’s most formidable adversary
aided by Jim the gunslinger (Gene Wilder), despite Lemar using Lili Von Shtupp
(Madeline Kahn) and Mongo (Alex Karras).
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