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| Blazing Saddles (1974) (Dinner & a Movie Version) | 
 enlarge | Actors: Richard Collier, Carol Deluise, Dom Deluise, Liam Dunn, George Furth
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: Video
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (339 reviews)
Sales Rank: 72843
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Hifi Sound, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Yiddish (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: VHS Tape
Running Time: 101 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0790735695
UPC: 085391610939
EAN: 9780790735696
ASIN: 0790735695
Release Date: September 29, 1998
Theatrical Release Date: February 7, 1974
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Amazon.com essential video
Mel Brooks scored his first commercial hit with this raucous Western spoof starring the late Cleavon Little as the newly hired (and conspicuously black) sheriff of Rock Ridge. Sheriff Bart teams up with deputy Jim (Gene Wilder) to foil the railroad-building scheme of the nefarious Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman). The simple plot is just an excuse for a steady stream of gags, many of them unabashedly tasteless, that Brooks and his wacky cast pull off with side-splitting success. The humor is so juvenile and crude that you just have to surrender to it; highlights abound, from the lunkheaded Alex Karras as the ox-riding Mongo to Madeline Kahn's uproarious send-up of Marlene Dietrich as saloon songstress Lili Von Shtupp. Adding to the comedic excess is the infamous campfire scene involving a bunch of hungry cowboys, heaping servings of baked beans and, well, you get the idea. --Jeff Shannon
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 great January 6, 2009
I bought this movie for my husband's birthday, and he loves it. Amazon was fast, inexpensive and easy to use.
Incredible picture quality on blu-ray! December 19, 2008
I didn't have high expectations for picture/sound quality of Blazing Saddles on blu-ray. I mean, it's such an old movie, how good could it be?
I was actually shocked to find it has excellent picture quality ...amazing picture quality, considering the movie was filmed in 1974! The edges are sharp, the colors are rich, I have never seen Blazing Saddles like this before. The audio is also very good.
If you're a Mel Brooks fan, this one is well worth getting on blu-ray.
One of the funniest movies ever made December 17, 2008
You can't go wrong having this movie in your collection. It is funny every time you watch it.
Great Mel Brooks flick December 8, 2008
This movie is just as funny as it was when it first came out over 30 yrs ago. I decided to get the DVD after several years of having 1 liners from the movie coming up in casual conversation. This is a classic and only Mel Brooks could produce a movie that mocks racism this way. Executive at studios today would probably be afraid to release a movie like this.
classic comedy November 22, 2008
Blazing Saddles is such a classic. From "candygram for Mongo!" to "it's twoo! it's twoo!" it's nonstop laughs.
To save money, the railroad needs to go through the town of Rock Ridge, and governor's right-hand man, Hedley--not Hedy!--Lamarr (Harvey Kormann) come up with a solution to get the residents to leave: hire a black sheriff (Cleavon Little).
When Bart (Little) gets to his office, he discovers the Waco Kid (Gene Wilder) sleeping off a drunk in his cell. They become friends and allies and save the day.
Brooks doesn't miss a trick with the humor, which, despite the famous campfire farting scene (which I saw once inexplicably edited for television as burping), is both sillier and smarter than most modern over-the-top comedies. I think it's because the jokes are all very pointed, and they're funnier because they're true.
The biggest point of the movie is, of course, racism, and it's treated in a way unheard-of today--by blatant ridicule. Those who are racist out of ignorance learn the error of their ways, and the outright bigots are shown to be idiots. It pulled out all the stereotypes and turned them around and demonstrated their foolishness. I don't want to turn this into an anti-PC rant, so I'll just point out that laughing at something helps it lose its power.
My sons, of course, loved it, and it sparked a lot of serious in-depth discussions about racism and about humor. They hadn't seen it before, because it's rated R, but there are R-rated movies, and then there are R-rated movies, and I don't think it was inappropriate for my 12- and 16-year-old sons.
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