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Title:

Blazing saddles / directed by Mel Brooks ; produced by Michael Hertzberg ; screenplay by Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Alan Uger.

Edition:

30th anniversary special ed.

Publisher:

Warner Bros. Pictures,

Copyright Date:

2004, 1974

Description:

1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Features.
Videodiscs.
African American police--Drama.--Drama.
Railroad companies--Drama.
Sheriffs--Drama.--Drama.

Other Authors:

LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Warner Bros. Pictures ; a Mel Brooks film ; screenplay by Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Alan Uger ; story by Andrew Bergman ; produced by Michael Hertzberg ; directed by Mel Brooks. Director of photography, Joseph Biroc ; film editors, John C. Howard, Danford Greene ; choreography by Alan Johnson ; music composed and conducted by John Morris ; original songs "I'm Tired", "The French Mistake" and "The Ballad of Rock Ridge" music and lyrics by Mel Brooks, "Blazing Saddles" music by John Morris, lyrics by Mel Brooks, sung by Frankie Laine.

Notes:

Mel Brooks, Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens. Donation. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1974. Special features: Commentary by Mel Brooks; Back in the saddle (29 min.); Intimate Portrait: Madeline Kahn (4 min.); TV pilot Black Bart (25 min.); Additional scenes (10 min.); Theatrical trailer (2 min.). Participants: Cleavon Little (Bart), Gene Wilder (Jim), Slim Pickens (Taggart), David Huddleston (Olson Johnson), Liam Dunn (Rev. Johnson), Alex Karras (Mongo), John Hillerman (Howard Johnson), George Furth (Van Johnson), Claude Ennis Starrett Jr. (Gabby Johnson), Mel Brooks (Governor Lepetomane), Harvey Korman (Hedley Lamarr), Madeline Kahn (Lili Von Shtupp). Audience: MPAA rating: Rated R.

Contents:

Credits -- Workin' on the rail road -- Quicksand -- Hedley Lamarr -- Church meeting -- Governor -- New sheriff -- Rock Ridge welcome -- Message to the Governor -- Waco Kid -- Beanfest -- Mongo goes boom! -- Where's Froggy? -- Lili Von Shtupp -- I'm tired -- Wet sauerkraut in her hands -- Snoopin' around -- Equal opportunity employer -- "Where are all the white women at?" -- Fake Rock Ridge -- Do the voodoo you do -- Exact change -- Showtime? -- "I work for Mel Brooks!" -- Happy ending -- End Credits.

Summary:

Never give a saga an even break! Blazing Saddles is an iconoclastic, not-politically-correct parody; one of the 1970s most successful and popular films. Every clich©♭d element from every Western ever made is turned upside down and inside out, while retaining all the familiar caricatures--eh, characters--of the genre: a dance-hall girl, a gunslinger, a sheriff, and a town full of pure folk. Mel Brooks redefined film comedy, and proved that even sophomoric, scatological humor could be used to ridicule prejudice, injustice, and apathy.

ISBN:

9780790757353
0790757354

LCCN:

96508403

Locations:

TNPD062 -- Belle Plaine Community Library (Belle Plaine)

RZPE145 -- Carroll Public Library (Carroll)

VXPE964 -- Decorah Public Library (Decorah)

WHPE115 -- Storm Lake Public Library (Storm Lake)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)