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Blazing Saddles <\/em><\/strong>(1974)<\/span><\/p>\n Director: Mel Brooks<\/strong><\/p>\n Screenplay: Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew aBergman, Richard Pryor, Alan Uger <\/strong>story by Andrew Bergman<\/strong><\/p>\n Stars: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn, Mel Brooks, Burton Gilliam, Alex Karras, David Huddleston, Liam Dunn, John Hillerman, George Furth, Jack Starrett, Richard Collier, Dom DeLuise, Richard Farnsworth, Sally Kirkland, Hal Needham, Rodney Allen Rippy\u00a0 <\/strong>and Count Basie.<\/strong><\/p>\n Tagline:\u00a0 Mel Brooks and the West! Together for the last time!<\/em><\/p>\n The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Quicksand forces the new railroad to change its route.\u00a0 When the dastardly Hedley Lamarr (Korman) learns the railroad will have to go through the town of Rock Ridge, he sees an opportunity to get rich.\u00a0 If Lamarr can get the town’s citizens to leave, he will become owner of all the land.<\/p>\n Lamarr sends his thugs to scare the people into leaving.\u00a0 Instead, they wire the Governor that they need a Sheriff to protect them.\u00a0 Lamarr tricks the Governor into sending an African American who was about to be hung.\u00a0 Lamarr figures that a black Sheriff won’t be much protection and will upset some town folk enough to leave.<\/p>\n Boy, was Lamarr wrong.<\/p>\n Let the fun begin!<\/p>\n Thoughts (beware of spoilers)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n Blazing Saddles<\/em> was nominated for six Academy Awards<\/em>: Blazing Saddles<\/em> wouldn’t be made today.\u00a0 It almost wasn’t in 1973.\u00a0 John Wayne turned down the Waco Kid role.\u00a0 Wayne thought it would tarnish his image.\u00a0 Gig Young was hired but collapsed during the first scene.\u00a0 It was later discovered Young suffered from alcohol withdrawal.\u00a0 Gene Wilder was brought in to replace Young.\u00a0 Richard Pryor was the first choice to play Bart.\u00a0 The studio wouldn’t hire Pryor due to previous drug arrests.\u00a0 Cleavon Little got the role.<\/p>\n The film makes fun of classic western troupes, breaks the fourth wall, features sight and verbal gags.\u00a0 It is all over the place.\u00a0 Everything is fair game.\u00a0 Blazing Saddles<\/em> isn’t for those easily offended.\u00a0 Everyone else is in for a comedy guaranteed to entertain.<\/p>\n Blazing Saddles <\/em><\/strong>(1974) rates 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n Blazing Saddles (1974) Director: Mel Brooks Screenplay: Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew aBergman, Richard Pryor, Alan Uger story by Andrew<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,63,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33617"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33632,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33617\/revisions\/33632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNominated for<\/strong><\/em>
\nBest Actress in a Supporting Role <\/em>(Madeline Kahn)
\n<\/em>Best Film Editing (John C. Howard, Danford B. Greene)
\nBest Music, Original Song<\/em> (John Morris – music, Mel Brooks – lyrics, for the song “Blazing Saddles”<\/em>)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\")
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