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Director Mel Brooks
Screenplay Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, Alan Uger, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman

Blazing Saddles

Tagline: ...or never give a saga an even break!

Release Date: 1974-02-07

Duration: 93 minutes

Synopsis

A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lamarr sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.

Casting

  • Mel Brooks
    Governor William J. Le Petomane / Indian Chief
  • Patrick Labyorteaux
    Henry (uncredited)
  • Madeline Kahn
    Lili Von Shtupp
  • Liam Dunn
    Rev. Johnson
  • Gene Wilder
    Jim
  • Harvey Korman
    Hedley Lamarr
  • Dick Warlock
    Townsman (uncredited)
  • Dom DeLuise
    Buddy Bizarre
  • Richard Farnsworth
    Sheriff (uncredited)
  • Slim Pickens
    Taggart

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