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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Questionable for Children, Adult Language, Adult Humor Movie Release: 1974 DVD Release: 06/25/1997 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV,Pan and Scan Audio Tracks: English, French, Spanish Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 33 mins Studio: Warner Home Video Members Wishing: 0 Genres: Comedy, Western, Parody/Spoof, Comedy Western, Odd Couple Film See Also: Blazing Saddles [Special Edition Collector's Box], Blazing Saddles [30th Anniversary Special Edition], Blazing Saddles [With BBQ Book], Blazing Saddles [Father's Day 30th Anniversary Special Edition With Golf Book], Blazing Saddles [HD DVD], Blazing Saddles [Blu-ray]

Vulgar, crude, and occasionally scandalous in its racial humor, this hilarious bad-taste spoof of Westerns, co-written by Richard Pryor, features Cleavon Little as the first black sheriff of a stunned town scheduled for demolition by an encroaching railroad. Little and co-star Gene Wilder have great chemistry, and the delightful supporting cast includes Harvey Korman, Slim Pickens, and Madeline Kahn as a chanteuse modelled on Marlene Dietrich. As in Young Frankenstein (1974), Silent Movie (1976), and High Anxiety (1977), director/writer Mel Brooks gives a burlesque spin to a classic Hollywood movie genre; in his own manic, Borscht Belt way, Brooks was a central player in revising classic genres in light of Seventies values and attitudes, an effort most often associated with such directors as Robert Altman and Peter Bogdanovich . Some of this film's sequences, notably a gaseous bean dinner around a campfire, have become comedy classics. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide

Cleavon Little - Bart
Gene Wilder - Jim, the Waco Kid
Slim Pickens - Taggart
Harvey Korman - Hedley Lamarr
David Huddleston - Olson Johnson
Mel Brooks - Governor Lepetomane
Mel Brooks - Indian Chief
Alex Karras - Mongo
Madeline Kahn - Lili Von Shtupp

Mel Brooks' hilarious, equal-opportunity-offender Western spoof Blazing Saddles comes to DVD with all of its over-the-top humor intact and with a few fun bonuses to boot. The double-sided disc features a clean, non-anamorphic, widescreen transfer on one side and a standard, formatted version on the other, as well as Dolby Digital 5.1 Stereo Sound. The 55-minute interview with Brooks is almost as funny and engaging as the movie itself; production notes and theatrical trailers complete the disc, which puts the focus on the film's enduring zaniness. Though the deluxe edition of Blazing Saddles adds lobby cards, a poster, and a framed, limited-edition Senitype image from the film, it offers little else for the film's fans that they can't get from the standard edition. While interviews with Gene Wilder or Cleavon Little would have been a nice touch, this package still offers a decent presentation of one of Brooks' funniest and most memorable films. ~ Heather Phares, All Movie Guide