Sep 5th    

Blazing Saddles**                                     

US 1974. Warner Bros/Crossbow. 93m. Panavision

A black sheriff teams up with an ex-gunfighter to foil a crooked attorney and his posse.
Zany, scatological, typically crude Brooks spoof Western which still retains a lot of authentic nostalgia for the genre, also skilfully combined with the Blaxploitation vogue for the 70's, even managing to parody itself with a finale across the studio backlot where the heroes and the villain shoot it out at the cinema where the film is playing.

Written by: Norman Steinberg, Mel Brooks, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Alan Uger.
Producer: Michael Herzberg.
Director: Mel Brooks.
Starring: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Harvey Korman, Slim Pickens, Madeline Kahn (homaging Dietrich), Burton Gilliam, Alex Karras, David Huddleston, Claude Ennis Starrett Jnr, Mel Brooks, Liam Dunn, John Hillerman, Count Basie.
Photography: Joseph Biroc.
Music: John Morris (title ballad sung by Frankie Lane).
Editing: John C. Howard, Danford B. Greene.

 

Preceded by:

Tom & Jerry in

Jerry's Cousin**

 (US 1951. 6m.; d: William Hanna, Joseph Barbera; p: Fred Quimby.)