Blazing Saddles
...or never give a saga an even break!
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- Comedy
- Western
Overview
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.
Keywords
- breaking the fourth wall
- racism
- governor
- parody
- gun
- cowboy
- saloon
- spoof
- self-referential
- frontier town
- anarchic comedy
- marching band
- railroad
- interrupted hanging
- western town
- western spoof
- ceremony
- saloon girl
- coot
- anachronistic
- farting
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- February 7, 1974
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- Yiddish, German, English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Warner Bros. Pictures,Crossbow Productions
- Budget
- $2,600,000
- Revenue
- $119,500,000
- Homepage
- Official site
- IMDb
- tt0071230