from Warner Brothers
Directed by
Mel
Brooks
Starring
Cleavon
Little (Bart)
Gene
Wilder (Jim- The Waco Kid)
Slim
Pickens (Taggart)
Harvey
Korman (Hedley Lamarr)
Madeline
Kahn (Lili Von Shtupp)
Mel
Brooks (Governor William J. Le Petomane, Indian Chief, Cycle
Hood)
Burton Gilliam (Lyle)
Alex Karras (Mongo)
David Huddleston (Olson Johnson)
Liam Dunn (Reverend Johnson)
John Hillerman (Howard Johnson)
George Furth (Van Johnson)
Claude Ennis Starrett Jr. (Gabby Johnson)
Carol DeLuise (Harriett Van Johnson)
Richard Collier (Dr. Sam Johnson)
Charles McGregor (Charlie)
Robyn Hilton (Miss Stein)
Don Megowan (Gum Chewer)
Dom DeLuise (Buddy Bizarre)
Count Basie (as Himself)
Written by
Andrew Bergman (also story)
Mel Brooks
Richard
Pryor
Norman Steinberg
Alan Uger
Original music by
Mel Brooks (songs "The Ballad of Rock Ridge", "I'm
Tired" and "The French Mistake")
John
Morris
Rated: 
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 A hysterical spoof
of the old time westerns, Blazing Saddles is about a town (where
every 3rd person has the last named Johnson) that stands in the
way of the coming railroad. Cleavon Little plays the first black
sheriff and Harvey Korman the evil politician Hedley Lamarr.
Classic Mel Brooks.
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