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The railroad’s got to run through the town of Rock Ridge. How do you drive out
the townsfolk 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
many call it 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 dimwitted politico and Madeline Kahn in her Marlene
Dietrich send-up that earned an Academy Award-nomination all give this sagebrush
saga their lunatic best. And when "Blazing Saddles" can’t contain itself at the
finale, it just proves the Old West will never be the same!
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