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Blazing Saddles is a Warner Bros 1974 comedy, directed by Mel Brooks, and starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder. Slim Pickens, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman, Mel Brooks and Alex Karras are also featured.
The film is a parody of the Western film genre. The story is set in an fictitious locale in the western United States. Construction on a planned railroad runs into quicksand, and has to change its route, which will cause it to be built near the town of Rock Ridge. Attorney General Lamarr (Korman) wants to buy up all the land cheap, but has to cause the townspeople to leave. He hires some thugs to scare them, which causes them to demand that the Governor appoint a sheriff. The Attorney General convinces the dim-witted governor (Brooks) to appoint Black Bart (Little) as the new sheriff, believing this will so offend the townspeople they will either lynch him or they will leave. With the assistance of over-the-hill gunslinger Jim (Wilder), Bart overcomes the initially hostile reception and inspires the townfolk to resist Lamarr's band of thugs.
One of its most famous scenes is of a group of cowboys sitting round a fire eating plates of beans; the soundtrack has repeated, loud evidence of the most notorious side-effects of beans..
In 2000, the American Film Institute listed Blazing Saddles as #6 on its list of the all-time funniest American films.
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