Blazing Saddles [HD] DVD

Blazing Saddles
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

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

Crew Alan Johnson - Choreography Vittorio Nino Novarese - Costume Designer Thomas S. Dawson - Costume Designer Alan Uger - First Assistant Director Mel Brooks - Director John C. Howard - Editor C. Timothy O'Meara - Editor Andrew Horvitch - Editor Danford B. Greene - Editor John Morris - Composer (Music Score) John Morris - Songwriter Mel Brooks - Songwriter Terry Miles - Makeup Peter W. Wooley - Production Designer Joseph Biroc - Cinematographer Michael Hertzberg - Producer Peter W. Wooley - Producer Morrie Hoffman - Set Designer Gene S. Cantamessa - Sound/Sound Designer Andrew Bergman - Screen Story Alan Uger - Screenwriter Norman Steinberg - Screenwriter Richard Pryor - Screenwriter Andrew Bergman - Screenwriter Mel Brooks - Screenwriter Frankie Laine - Musical Performer

Blazing Saddles
Mel Brooks at his ribald, tasteless best, Blazing Saddles stands out as one of the all-time great film spoofs. Sparing no one from his outrageous brand of humor, Brooks proved he was an egalitarian when it came to making fun of people, regardless of skin color or religious persuasion: where blacks may come off as stereotypical, whites are seen as just plain stupid and ignorant. Beyond its over-the-top humor and genre revision of the Western, Blazing Saddles boasts some great performances, with Madeline Kahn, Gene Wilder, and Slim Pickens doing some of the best work of their careers. It also features a number of scenes that have elevated the film into the realm of the comedy classic, perhaps most infamously the one involving beans, a campfire, and the most gratuitous display of flatulence ever to cloud a movie screen. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide
 

Danford B. Greene: Academy, Best Editing (nominated) John C. Howard: Academy, Best Editing (nominated) John Morris: Academy, Best Song (nominated) Madeline Kahn: Academy, Best Supporting Actress (nominated) Mel Brooks: Academy, Best Song (nominated)

General Specifications: Language Options: English, French, Spanish Subtitle Options: English, French, Spanish Sound Processing: DD5.1: Dolby Digital w/ sub-woofer channel DD1: Dolby Digital Mono Additional Features: Additional scenes Scene-specific commentary by Mel Brooks 2 documentaries: Back in the Saddle Intimate Portrait: Madeline Kahn (Excerpt) Black Bart: 1975 Pilot episode of the proposed TV series spinoff Theatrical trailer MPAA Rating: R DVD Discs Included: 1 DVD Sides: 1 DVD DVD Region Code: Content Length: 93 min