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
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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
“Never mind that $%^!, here comes Mongo!”
Hope AMC runs it uncut. Other channels dub-out the mother of all racial epithets rendering some of the best lines flat.
"Come on girls, it's ssooo, ssimple!"
Funniest. Movie. Ever.
I wonder if they’ll show the whole thing or cut it to death like they always do...
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!
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.
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.
"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!
where the white women at???
I didn't get a "Harumph" from that guy!!
“You watch your ass!”
The sheriff is a’ near!
Don’t you like movies with family values?
Would you help me with the bags?
What a Set of Knockers!
“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.
My comment was a sarcastic reference to mafia families.
Netflix and BitTorrent.
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