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
Jockeying for #1 and #2 -- they keep changing position, as time goes by -- are:
Young Frankenstein
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Ok. Then I’ll rephrase my answer: Yes I do have respect for family values but not the mafia family values. lol
The Three Stooges, not so much. The Marx Brothers, not at all. They don’t even make me chuckle. Though I did like Mel’s High Anxiety for some reason.
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