Blazing Saddles

Theatrical - Wide 1974-02-07

Cast Cleavon Little Gene Wilder Slim Pickens Harvey Korman Madeline Kahn
Directed by Mel Brooks
Written by Richard Pryor Mel Brooks Norman Steinberg Andrew Bergman Alan Uger

Box Office Gross: $119,500,000

Running Time: 93 minutes

Language: English

Production Company: Crossbow Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures

Genres: Comedy Western

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Synopsis

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... See more demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.

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