Fresh
Goldarned if the whole fool enterprise is not worth the attention of any moviegoer with a penchant for what one actor, commenting on another's Gabby Hayes imitation, calls 'authentic western gibberish.'
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
Blazing Saddles
...or never give a saga an even break!
1974 · 1h 33m · R
Comedy, Western
Directed by
Mel Brooks
Overview
A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lamarr sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.
Director and cast
- Mel Brooks Director
- Cleavon Little as Sheriff Bart
- Gene Wilder as Jim, aka "The Waco Kid"
- Mel Brooks as Gov. William J. Le Petomane / Indian Chief
- Madeline Kahn as Lili Von Shtüpp, the Teutonic Titwillow
- Slim Pickens as Taggart
- Harvey Korman as Hedley Lamarr
- Burton Gilliam as Lyle
- Alex Karras as Mongo
- David Huddleston as Olson Johnson
- Liam Dunn Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
88%
Tomatometer
Fresh
One of the funniest awful movies ever made.
Don Druker, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Although Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder head a uniformly competent cast, pic is handily stolen by Harvey Korman and Madeline Kahn. Kahn is simply terrific doing a Marlene Dietrich lampoon.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
It's a crazed grabbag of a movie that does everything to keep us laughing except hit us over the head with a rubber chicken.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
Blazing Saddles has no dominant personality, and it looks as if it includes every gag thought up in every story conference. Whether good, bad, or mild, nothing was thrown out.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
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