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AMCTV Celebrates 35th Anniversary of BLAZING SADDLES
amctv.com ^ | 02/15/09 | amctv

Posted on 02/15/2009 5:58:30 AM PST by TornadoAlley3

Blazing Saddles (1974) Closed Caption

Comedy, WesternTV14

Warner Brothers

Mel Brooks

Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens

Tune In Sun Feb 15 @ 8PM | 7C....Sun Feb 15 @ 10PM | 9C......Sat Feb 28 @ 8PM | 7C.......Sun Mar 01 @ 12AM | 11C

Vulgar, crude, and occasionally scandalous in its racial humor, this hilarious bad-taste spoof of Westerns, co-written by Richard Pryor, features Cleavon Little as the first black sheriff of a stunned town scheduled for demolition by an encroaching railroad. Little and co-star Gene Wilder have great chemistry, and the delightful supporting cast includes Harvey Korman, Slim Pickens, and Madeline Kahn as a chanteuse modelled on Marlene Dietrich. As in Young Frankenstein (1974), Silent Movie (1976), and High Anxiety (1977), director/writer Mel Brooks gives a burlesque spin to a classic Hollywood movie genre; in his own manic, Borscht Belt way, Brooks was a central player in revising classic genres in light of Seventies values and attitudes, an effort most often associated with such directors as Robert Altman and Peter Bogdanovich . Some of this film's sequences, notably a gaseous bean dinner around a campfire, have become comedy classics.

— Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: amctv; blazingsaddles; movie
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To: ARepublicanForAllReasons
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21 posted on 02/15/2009 6:57:46 AM PST by Dusty Road
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To: Dusty Road

“Never mind that $%^!, here comes Mongo!”


22 posted on 02/15/2009 6:59:53 AM PST by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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To: SolidWood

Hope AMC runs it uncut. Other channels dub-out the mother of all racial epithets rendering some of the best lines flat.


23 posted on 02/15/2009 7:08:10 AM PST by AU72
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To: dfwgator
LOL.

"Come on girls, it's ssooo, ssimple!"

24 posted on 02/15/2009 7:23:25 AM PST by ARepublicanForAllReasons (Give 'em hell, Sarah!)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Funniest. Movie. Ever.


25 posted on 02/15/2009 7:35:41 AM PST by poindexter
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To: TornadoAlley3

I wonder if they’ll show the whole thing or cut it to death like they always do...


26 posted on 02/15/2009 7:36:33 AM PST by stylin19a (Obama - the ethical exception asterisk administration)
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To: Country Eagle

Was very disappointed that The Godfather was on last night. Yesterday was Valentine’s Day. It would have been nice to see a romantic comedy. But no, the Godfather was on, Grrrr!


27 posted on 02/15/2009 7:44:22 AM PST by tob2 (Fox News Fan)
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To: ARepublicanForAllReasons

I usually like Mel Brooks. The unfunniest of his movies, IMHO, is Space Balls. Have tried many times to watch it but less than half way through, switch to something else. Space Balls is just not as funny as his others.


28 posted on 02/15/2009 7:48:40 AM PST by tob2 (Fox News Fan)
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To: tob2

Not only do they run the Godfather often, they have introduced commercials to a channel that was once without them, have not updated to a HD signal and control a HUGE portion of the classic movies made.


29 posted on 02/15/2009 8:02:02 AM PST by dabluesman
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To: TornadoAlley3
Twenty Eight posts and not one

"The Sheriff is a Ni(bell sounds)! repeated!

I thought that in light of this humor that the N word had been put to bed but alas...

Some monsters never die!


30 posted on 02/15/2009 8:04:59 AM PST by Young Werther (Julius Caesar (Quae Cum Ita Sunt. Since these things are so.))
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To: TornadoAlley3
where the white women at???
31 posted on 02/15/2009 9:06:20 AM PST by Chode (American Hedonist -)
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To: TornadoAlley3

I didn't get a "Harumph" from that guy!!

32 posted on 02/15/2009 9:47:12 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("To insist on strength is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering." Barry Goldwater)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“You watch your ass!”


33 posted on 02/15/2009 9:49:42 AM PST by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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To: Young Werther

The sheriff is a’ near!


34 posted on 02/15/2009 9:51:49 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (This disaster brought to you by the failed Obama administration.)
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To: tob2

Don’t you like movies with family values?


35 posted on 02/15/2009 9:55:07 AM PST by nufsed
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To: Young Werther

Would you help me with the bags?


36 posted on 02/15/2009 9:55:59 AM PST by nufsed
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What a Set of Knockers!


37 posted on 02/15/2009 10:38:07 AM PST by Young Werther (Julius Caesar (Quae Cum Ita Sunt. Since these things are so.))
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To: nufsed

“Don’t you like movies with family values?”

Of course I do. AMC seems to be running more of the Godfather trilogy than any other movies. There is so much more to watch those three.


38 posted on 02/15/2009 12:58:42 PM PST by tob2 (Fox News Fan)
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To: tob2

My comment was a sarcastic reference to mafia families.


39 posted on 02/15/2009 1:05:00 PM PST by nufsed
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To: tob2

Netflix and BitTorrent.


40 posted on 02/15/2009 5:48:27 PM PST by enviros_kill
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