Blazing Saddles
1974 · ★ 7.3 · Dir. Mel Brooks
Never give a saga an even break!
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.
- Released
- 1974-02-07
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Rated
- R
- Language
- EN
- Budget
- $2.6M
- Box office
- $119.5M
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Cleavon Little
Bart
Gene Wilder
Jim
Slim Pickens
Taggart
Harvey Korman
Hedley Lamarr
Burton Gilliam
Lyle
Alex Karras
Mongo
David Huddleston
Olson Johnson
Mel Brooks
Governor William J. Le Petomane / Indian Chief
Liam Dunn
Rev. Johnson
John Hillerman
Howard Johnson
Madeline Kahn
Lili Von Shtupp
George Furth
Van Johnson
Keywords
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