Wednesday 20 October 2021

ALL-TIME CLASSIC MOVIE FAVOURITES – BLAZING SADDLES (1974)

 

“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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