| Mel Brooks scored his first commercial hit with Blazing
Saddles, a 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 in Blazing Saddles involving a bunch of hungry cowboys, heaping servings of baked beans and, well, you get the idea. ~Jeff Shannon - Amazon.com Audio Tracks: English/Spanish Subtitles: English/Spanish |
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