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 that 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 her an Academy Award nomination all give this sagebrush saga their lunatic best.

GENRE: Comedy
MPAA RATING: R
RUN TIME: 1h 35m
RELEASE DATE: February 07, 1974
STARRING: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman, Mel Brooks
DIRECTOR(S): Mel Brooks
PRODUCER(S): Michael Hertzberg
WRITER(S): Andrew Bergman, Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Richard Pryor, Alan Uger
STUDIO: Warner Bros.