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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790757353
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790757354
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 29, 2004
Running Time: 93 minutes
Sales Rank: 549
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: February 07, 1974
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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!Running Time: 93 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 085391895923
Amazon.com essential video:
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
Amazon.com:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - tried to watch it again after a long time.
As a little kid, I loved this movie. All the cartoonish candygram for Mongo schtick and the farting cowboys. As an adult I watched it, found it boring and was offended by all the questionable race humor.
I give it two stars because I remember a funny movie i loved as a kid. (he took hmself hostage hardy har har) otherwise I'd give it negative one star.
Rating:  - Blazing Saddles
This is one of the best classic Films
in Hollywood CA. It is VERY VERY FUNNY!!!
You should own it on BLU-RAY DISC today.
Rating:  - Candy Gram for Mongo
Great! Along with The Producers and Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks has made three of the all time funny movies. I remember seeing this when in was first released and the audience in the cinema were in hysterics of laughter throughout and today it still is a hoot.Great cast, crazy script(such as it is)and just a great vibe throughout combine to make a movie classic. Mel Brooks has tried many times to recreate the wackiness and great spoofery of Blazing Saddles and has never succeeded.What makes Blazing Saddles so good is that he went for it 100% and was inspired. Most of his movies since have been merely crude and boring.
Rating: - l get no kick from champagne, mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all...
...l get a belt out of Blazing Saddles. Now l bet you're wondering why l'm singing and not reviewing. (Y0U BET Y0UR A--!!!) Well, the real people of Rock Ridge will love this movie, as will the fake ones. You'll love this movie more than a box of paddle-balls.
Rating: - Really?
String together a group of stereotypes and cliché ridden gags and you have your generic parody. Sadly, `Blazing Saddles' doesn't add anything else to the pot to make it noteworthy or memorable. In fact, `Blazing Saddles' is so generic I am still baffled at all the unwavering devotion it receives. Now understand that I am a huge fan of Mel Brooks and I adore Gene Wilder (I gave `Young Frankenstein' 5 stars recently) but this film is not one I can gather behind. It has so many loyal supporters, but I am not one of them.
The plot centers around a black man appointed sheriff of a racist white town in order to serve the interests of a railroad company who want to build a railway going through the town. If a black man is sheriff than everyone will leave, right. With the help of Deputy Jim, Sheriff Bart sets out to foil these plans.
Insert mindless gags that seem to think they are funnier than they really are.
I don't know; maybe I just don't get it. Well, I guess that is the case because clearly there is something to be gotten here, I just can't see it. Everyone has different taste, that is true, but I can't see what would appeal to anyone here. Gene Wilder is the best thing about this film, aside from Madeline Kahn who actually tickled my funny bone a bit, but for the most part nothing was even remotely entertaining...
...except the ending; I'll give it that. The final few minutes of the film are hilarious. See, writing this review has ... Read More
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