1974 · comedy · western
Blazing Saddles
Directed by Mel Brooks1h 33m1974
A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lamarr sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.
Our read: Blazing Saddles (1974) reads as a cosy, kinetic, inventive comedy · western entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / western, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
- cosy
- brisk
- funny
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