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Blazing Saddles DVDs, Trivia, Photos, Videos and More from the Funniest Movie of All Time.
"Unfortunately there is one thing standing between me and that property - the rightful owners. " - Headley Lamarr
The iconoclastic, not-politically-correct Blazing Saddles (1974) is one of Mel Brooks' funniest, most successful and most popular films. It is an unsubtle spoof or parody of all the cliches from the time-honored genre of westerns, similar to the comic attitude of numerous Marx Brothers films.
The crude, racist and sexist film with toilet humor and foul language includes the main elements of any western - a dance-hall girl, a gunslinger, a sheriff, a town full of pure folk - and more, but it twists them around. So they become a black sheriff, a racist town and a sex-obsessed Governor.
Co-written by Richard Pryor, the film is considered progressive in the way that it butchered stereotypes and faced issues of race-relations head on. Not to mention, it just also happens to be one of the funniest movies ever made.
30th Anniversary Edition DVD
Blazing Saddles (30th Anniversary Special Edition)
This special edition DVD features an 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!
Amazon Price: $7.99 (as of 07/26/2008)
Blazing Saddles - Limited Edition Collector's Set
This special collection includes the above DVD plus - 8 Original Limited Edition Lobby Cards, an Exclusive Limited Edition Senitype image from movie with 35mm Film Frame and an Original One Sheet Movie Poster (27x40)!
Amazon Price: (as of 07/26/2008)
Blazing Saddles Opening Scene
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Blazing Saddles On The Web
- Blazing Saddles @ IMDB
- To ruin a western town, a corrupt political boss appoints a black sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.
- Blazing Saddles Sounds
- A big collection of hilarious .wav files from the classic Mel Brooks western spoof. "A wed wose. How womantic".
- Filmsite.org Essay
- This detailed article looks at the film in depth, and explicates many of the racy themes and subjects that have helped this hilarious movie stand the test of time.
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Theme From Blazing Saddles
Lyrics to the Oscar nominated theme song, sung by Frankie Laine.
He rode a blazing saddleHe wore a shining star
His job to offer battle
To bad men near and far
He conquered fear and he conquered hate
He turned our night into day
He made his blazing saddle
A torch to light the way
When outlaws rule the West
And fear fills the land
A cry went up for a man with guts
To take the West in hand
They needed a man who was brave and true
With justice for all as his aim
Then out of the sun rode a man with a gun
And Bart was his name, yes Bart was his name
"How about some more beans, Mr. Taggart?"
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Blazing Saddles Reviews
- Roger Ebert's 1974 Blazing Saddles Review
- "Blazing Saddles" is a crazed grabbag of a movie that does everything to keep us laughing except hit us over the head with a rubber chicken. Mostly, it succeeds. It's an audience picture; it doesn't have a lot of classy polish and its structure is a total mess. But of course! What does that matter while Alex Karris is knocking a horse cold with a right cross to the jaw?
- DVD Journal BS Review
- Chalk up Blazing Saddles as only a lampoon of Hollywood westerns and you miss the point by a Texas mile. After its release in 1974, Mel Brooks' R-rated lowbrow "Night at the Horse Opera" became a surprise box-office hit and the all-time highest-grossing western until 1990's Dances With Wolves.
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- The crude, racist and sexist film with toilet humor and foul language includes the main elements of any western - a dance-hall girl, a gunslinger, a sheriff, a town full of pure folk, and more, but it twists them around. So they become a black sheriff, a racist town, a sex-obsessed Governor, and so forth.
