Blazing Saddles (1974)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 93m
Director: Mel Brooks
Cast: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens
Synopsis:
Privy to the knowledge that the railroad will soon be diverted through his town, a corrupt politician attempts to bring about and exploit civic disorder by appointing a black sheriff.
Review:
Scattergun assembly of movie in-jokes and gutter humour, much imitated since, not least by its director, but never quite with the same degree of misplaced innocence. The ending, in which a fistfight spreads from sound stage to studio lot, is very much a copy of the climax of Casino Royale (1967), but the film, which was deemed 'culturally, historically or (apparently they couldn't quite decide) aesthetically significant' by the Library of Congress in 2006, is now impervious to criticism.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 93m
Director: Mel Brooks
Cast: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens
Synopsis:
Privy to the knowledge that the railroad will soon be diverted through his town, a corrupt politician attempts to bring about and exploit civic disorder by appointing a black sheriff.
Review:
Scattergun assembly of movie in-jokes and gutter humour, much imitated since, not least by its director, but never quite with the same degree of misplaced innocence. The ending, in which a fistfight spreads from sound stage to studio lot, is very much a copy of the climax of Casino Royale (1967), but the film, which was deemed 'culturally, historically or (apparently they couldn't quite decide) aesthetically significant' by the Library of Congress in 2006, is now impervious to criticism.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 93m
Director: Mel Brooks
Cast: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens
Synopsis:
Privy to the knowledge that the railroad will soon be diverted through his town, a corrupt politician attempts to bring about and exploit civic disorder by appointing a black sheriff.
Review:
Scattergun assembly of movie in-jokes and gutter humour, much imitated since, not least by its director, but never quite with the same degree of misplaced innocence. The ending, in which a fistfight spreads from sound stage to studio lot, is very much a copy of the climax of Casino Royale (1967), but the film, which was deemed 'culturally, historically or (apparently they couldn't quite decide) aesthetically significant' by the Library of Congress in 2006, is now impervious to criticism.