Product Details
- Actors: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn
- Directors: Mel Brooks, Robert Butler
- Writers: Mel Brooks, Alan Uger, Andrew Bergman, Frank Shaw, Michael Elias
- Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
- Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
- Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Rated: R (Restricted)
- Studio: Warner Home Video
- DVD Release Date: June 29, 2004
- Run Time: 93 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (394 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B0001Z4OXS
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #378 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
Special Features
- All-new digital transfer and remastered Dolby 5.1 sound
- Scene-specific commentary by director/co-writer Mel Brooks
- Cast/Crew Reunion documentary "Back in the Saddle"
- Excerpt of "Intimate Portrait: Madeline Kahn Remembers"
- "Black Bart" 1975 TV Pilot that inspired the film
- Additional scenes
Editorial Reviews
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Mel Brooks scored his first commercial hit with this raucous Western spoof starring the late Cleavon Little as the newly hired (and conspicuously black) sheriff of Rock Ridge. Sheriff Bart teams up with deputy Jim (Gene Wilder) to foil the railroad-building scheme of the nefarious Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman). The simple plot is just an excuse for a steady stream of gags, many of them unabashedly tasteless, that Brooks and his wacky cast pull off with side-splitting success. The humor is so juvenile and crude that you just have to surrender to it; highlights abound, from the lunkheaded Alex Karras as the ox-riding Mongo to Madeline Kahn's uproarious send-up of Marlene Dietrich as saloon songstress Lili Von Shtupp. Adding to the comedic excess is the infamous campfire scene involving a bunch of hungry cowboys, heaping servings of baked beans and, well, you get the idea. --Jeff Shannon
Product Description
The railroad's got to run through the town of Rock Ridge. How do you drive out the townfolk in order to steal their land? Send in the toughest gang you've got...and name a new sheriff who'll last about 24 hours. But that's not really the plot of Blazing Saddles, just the pretext. Once Mel Brooks' lunatic film many call his best gets started, logic is lost in a blizzard of gags, jokes, quips, puns, howlers, growlers and outrageous assaults upon good taste or any taste at all. Cleavon Little as the new lawman, Gene Wilder as the wacko Waco Kid, Brooks himself as a dim-witted politico and Madeline Kahn in her Marlene Dietrich send-up that earned an Academy Award nomination all give this sagebrush saga their lunatic best. And when Blazing Saddles can't contain itself at the finale, it just proves the Old West will never be the same!
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