Mel Brooks 'Blazing Saddles'.

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Blazing Saddles (1974) is a satiric Western comedy film directed by Mel Brooks. Starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder, it was written by Brooks, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, and Al Uger, and was based on Bergman's story and draft. The movie is considered one of the great American comedies of all time, coming in at number six in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs list.

Brooks appears in multiple supporting roles, including Governor Le Petomane and a Yiddish-speaking Indian Chief. Slim Pickens, Alex Karras, David Huddleston, and Brooks regulars Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn, and Harvey Korman are also featured. Musician Count Basie has a cameo as himself.
The story is set in the American Old West of 1874. Construction on a new railroad runs into quicksand; the route has to be changed, which will require it to go through Rock Ridge, a frontier town where everyone has the last name of "Johnson" (including a "Howard Johnson", a "Van Johnson" and an "Olson Johnson".) The conniving State Attorney General Hedley Lamarr — not to be confused, as he often is in the film, with actress Hedy Lamarr — wants to buy the land along the new railroad route cheaply by driving the towns people out. He sends a gang of thugs, led by his flunky Taggart, to scare them away, prompting the townsfolk to demand that Governor William J. LePetomane (Brooks) appoint a new sheriff. The Attorney General convinces the dim-witted Governor to select Bart, a black railroad worker who was about to be hanged, as the new sheriff. Because Bart is black, Lamarr believes that this will so offend the towns people they will either abandon the town or lynch the new sheriff.
With his quick wits and the assistance of alcoholic gunslinger Jim, also known as "The Waco Kid" ("I must have killed more men than Cecil B. DeMille!"), Bart works to overcome the townsfolk's hostile reception. He defeats and befriends Mongo, an immensely strong (but with barely enough intelligence to qualify him as human) henchman sent by Taggart, and bests German seductress-for-hire Lili von Shtupp at her own game, before inspiring the town to lure Lamarr's newly-recruited and incredibly diverse army of thugs (rustlers, cutthroats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperadoes, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswagglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass kickers, shit kickers and Methodists in addition to nearly every other kind of stock movie villain) into an ambush.
In an interview included in the DVD release of Blazing Saddles, Mel Brooks claimed that Hedy Lamarr threatened to sue, saying the film's running "Hedley Lamarr" joke infringed her right to publicity. This is lampooned when Hedley corrects Governor Le Petomane's pronunciation of his name, and Le Petomane replies with "What the hell are you worried about? This is 1874, you'll be able to sue her!".

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[24fRaMeSps]

is it true that this is the most watched film in the world?

[gerdenshed]

I don't know but I do know it's one of the funniest ;-)

Mark...

[jamerson1000]

You could never make a movie like that in this present political climate, but it is so overdue. If you want to get rid of hatred and prejudice, make it hilarious. Its hard to hate when your laughing your ass off!

[gerdenshed]

Well said that man 5*s ;-)

Mark...

[glennfryenpie]

one of my favorite movies

[gerdenshed]

It's great isn't it lol..

Mark..

[vivaldi1948]

My favorie movie ever! Brilliant.

[luisrox94]

@jamerson1000: With people like Al Sharpton, Rev. Wright, and Jesse Jackson running around, there will NEVER be another movie like Blazing Saddles. It would be awesome though.

[UncleMikeNJ]

First time I ever saw it, I was up in the middle of the night with a horrible cold. Every time I laughed I practically hacked up a lung. That's about 56 lungs. If laughter is the best medicine, then why didn't I feel better? Maybe watching it was the last act of a desperate man.

[MarcianoMMA]

Hurrumph

[contact1araya]

Mel used to put the most stagged women on his movies.