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Blazing Saddles [VHS] [1974]

VHS ~ Cleavon Little
4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn
  • Directors: Mel Brooks
  • Writers: Mel Brooks, Alan Uger, Andrew Bergman, Norman Steinberg, Richard Pryor
  • Producers: Michael Hertzberg
  • Format: HiFi Sound, PAL
  • Language English, Yiddish
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • VHS Release Date: 1 Oct 1999
  • Run Time: 89 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004CIBH
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 4,880 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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    #76 in  Video > Action & Adventure > Westerns

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Amazon.co.uk Review

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 humour is so juvenile and crude that you just have to surrender to it; highlights abound, from 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


Synopsis

A Wild West parody, where a black railroad worker and an alcoholic ex-gunfighter foil a crooked attorney and his henchmen.

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Timeless Genius!!, 1 Jan 2007
By Mr. A. Hale - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blazing Saddles (30th anniversary edition) [DVD] [1974] (DVD)
Just to say that I could watch this film seven days a week and I could never tire of it! It is is just simply a piece of cinematic genius in its own way and will hopefully live on forever despite people like Mr Hutton getting rather carried away in his review and taking the film to be literal in it's "racism" etc! May I suggest that he needs a long calming holiday and to get an open mind and a sense of humour. Everyone else I know that has seen this film,both BLACK and WHITE has understood the intended controversial humour and irony.Quite simply a must have for anyones dvd collection!!
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The funniest film ever made, 10 Feb 2001
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This review is from: Blazing Saddles [1974] [DVD] (DVD)
This is quite simply the funniest film that has ever been made. It is an absolute riot from start to finish. Gene Wilder and Cleavon Little are excellent but Harvey Korman steals the show for me as the hilarious Hedley ("That's HEDLEY!!!") Lamarr.

An audio commentary from Mr Brooks is all that is missing from the DVD.

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars One of brooks' finest films, 21 Jul 2002
This review is from: Blazing Saddles [1974] [DVD] (DVD)
I only watched this film because my best friend is a Mel Brooks fanatic and after seeing 'Men In Tights' previously I didn't have high hopes. To my delight it turned out to be one of the freshest and most engaging comedies I've seen in ages even though it may have been released 28 years ago. Gene Wilder is brilliant as the Waco Kid and Cleavon Little gives a great performance as the 'black sheriff'. I challenge you not to watch this film with a smile on your face from start to finish, purely because of the great performances by all of the cast and the wonderful humour of Brooks.
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5.0 out of 5 stars B lazing Saddles
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5.0 out of 5 stars Farts and one-liners
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2.0 out of 5 stars Sadly not anywhere near as good as I remember it
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