Origin: U.S. (Crossbow, Warner Bros.) 1974Length: 93 minutes
Format: Technicolor
Director: Mel Brooks
Producer: Michael Hertzberg
Screenplay: Andrew Bergman, Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, Alan Uger
Photography: Joseph F. Biroc
Music: Mel Brooks, Vernon Duke, John Morris
Cast: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, David Huddleston, Liam Dunn, Alex Karras, John Hillerman, George Furth, Jack Starrett, Mel Brooks, Harvey Korman, Carol DeLuise, Richard Collier, Charles McGregor
Oscar nominations: Madeline Kahn(actress in supporting role), John C. Howard, Danford B. Greene(editing), John Morris, Mel Brooks(song)
Links: Blazing Saddles Trailer, Blazing Saddles Wiki
Though it may not be the peak of Mel Brooks's cinematic output - The Producers is still more shocking and pointed - with its mixture of surrealism, slapstick, and (then ground-breaking) vulgarity, Blazing Saddles is certainly his most influential film. Despite both its hackneyed setting - the old West - and its 1970s veneer - hip gags about race and sex - it stands as one of the more brilliant works in the career of a great 1950s comedy writer.
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