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R 1974 ‧ Parody film/Comedy ‧ 1h 35m
DescriptionIn this satirical take on Westerns, crafty railroad worker Bart (Cleavon Little) becomes the first black sheriff of Rock Ridge, a frontier town about to be destroyed in order to make way for a new railroad. Initially, the people of Rock Ridge harbor a racial bias toward their new leader. However, they warm to him after realizing that Bart and his perpetually drunk gunfighter friend (Gene Wilder) are the only defense against a wave of thugs sent to rid the town of its population.
Release date: February 7, 1974 (USA)
Director: Mel Brooks
Featured song: Signature / Main Title
Story by: Andrew Bergman
Screenplay: Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, Andrew Bergman, Norman Steinberg, Alan Uger
Soundtrack Credits
Blazing Saddles
Music by John Morris
Lyrics by Mel Brooks
Sung by Frankie Laine
The French Mistake
Music and Lyrics by Mel Brooks
I Get a Kick Out of You
(uncredited)
Written by Cole Porter
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
(uncredited)
Written by Wallis Willis
Camptown Races
(uncredited)
Written by Stephen Foster
The Ballad of Rock Ridge
Music and Lyrics by Mel Brooks
April in Paris
(uncredited)
Music by Vernon Duke
Lyrics by E.Y. Harburg
Performed by Count Basie and His Orchestra
I'm Tired
Music and Lyrics by Mel Brooks
Performed by Madeline Kahn
Merrily We Roll Along
(uncredited)
Written by Charles Tobias, Murray Mencher & Eddie Cantor
Hail to the Chief
(uncredited)
Music by James Sanderson
Performed by Harvey Korman and Mel Brooks
Springtime for Hitler
(uncredited)
Written by Mel Brooks
References
Little Caesar (1931)
During the pie fight at the Warner Brothers commisary, a picture of Edward G. Robinson dressed as Rico can be glimpsed very briefly on the back wall.
Anything Goes (1936)
"I Get a Kick Out of You"
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
Robert Ridgely (Boris the hangman) does a spot-on voice imitation of Charles Laughton's Quasimodo.
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941)
Subtitled with the movie's name on the poster. "Never give a *saga* an even break."
Calling Dr. Gillespie (1942)
During the hangings, Harvey Korman says of a hangee in a wheelchair (representing Lionel Barrymore of the Gillespie films) "ah yes, the Dr. Gillespie killings", in reference to the "death" of the series
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
The scene with Mexicans standing in line handing out badges is, of course, a homage to Alfonso Badoya's character in "Treasure of Sierra Madre" where he replies to Bogart, " Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges."
Oklahoma! (1955)
in the line "jumping around like a bunch of Kansas City faggots"
ABC's Wide World of Sports (1961) (TV Series)
Taggart (Slim Pickens) says "What in the Wide World of Sports is going on here?"
The War Wagon (1967)
In the bar room fight in The War Wagon Howard Keel pushes people across the bar with a piano. In Blazing Saddles bar fight Mongo has people against the wall trapped behind a piano.
The Producers (1967)
Right before the "I'm Tired" scene, after Jim tells Bart about Lili Von Shtupp, the tune that is playing in the background is the theme from the fictional play Springtime For Hitler which appears in Mel Brooks' first film The Producers. Other references to the previous film include when Governor Le Petomane echoes Max Bialystock's line "Hello Boys!"
Cabaret (1972)
When Hedley knocks on her door, Lili von Shtupp replies with "Wilkommen, bienvenue, welcome," a reference to the film's first song.
Scarecrow (1973)
Large poster on wall outside WB studios
Young Frankenstein
1974
Spaceballs
1987
The Producers
1967
Silent Movie
1976
History of the World, Part I
1981
High Anxiety
1977
The Twelve Chairs
1970
Support Your Local Sheriff!
1969
Life Stinks
1991
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
1993
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
1995
Support Your Local Gunfighter
1971
The World's Greatest Lover
1977
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
1975
A Million Ways to Die in the West
2014
The Frisco Kid
1979
The Sheepman
1958
The Villain
1979
Wagons East
1994
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
1989
Stir Crazy
1980
Airplane!
1980
Animal House
1978
To Be or Not to Be
1983
Three Amigos
1986
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969
Cat Ballou
1965
City Slickers
1991
Unforgiven
1992
The Big Lebowski
1998
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