Blazing Saddles (1974)


Cleavon Little          Bart
Gene Wilder             Jim
Slim Pickens            Taggart
David Huddleston        Olson Johnson
Liam Dunn               Reverend Johnson
Alex Karras             Mongo
John Hillerman          Howard Johnson
George Furth (II)       Van Johnson
Claude E. Starrett Jr   Gabby Johnson
Mel Brooks              Governor Lepetomane/ Indian Chief
Harvey Korman           Hedley Lamarr
Madeline Kahn           Lili Von Shtupp

Directed by:            Mel Brooks
Produced by:            Michael Hertzberg


When the new railroad is scheduled to go through the frontier town of Rock Ridge, corrupt State Attorney 
General Hedley Lamarr sends thugs to scare the townspeople off the newly valuable land so he can buy it 
himself. This causes the citizens to demand that the Governor appoint a new sheriff to protect them. 
Lamarr convinces the simple-minded Governor to appoint a black railroad worker named Bart, thinking that 
the racist townsfolk will either move away or lynch him. But the quick-witted, urbane Bart and his 
alcoholic sidekick The Waco Kid set out to win over the town.

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The Ultimate Western Spoof. A town where everyone seems to be named Johnson is in the way of the railroad. 
In order to grab their land, Hedley Lemar, a politically connected nasty person, sends in his henchmen to 
make the town unlivable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor. 
Hedley convinces him to send the town the first Black sheriff in the west. Bart is a sophisticated urbanite 
who will have some difficulty winning over the townspeople.