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Blazing Saddles is a 1974 American satirical postmodernist [4] [5] Western black comedy film directed by Mel Brooks, who co-wrote the screenplay with Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg and Alan Uger, based on a story treatment by Bergman. [6] The film stars Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder.
Cleavon Jake Little (June 1, 1939 – October 22, 1992) was an American stage, film and television actor. He began his career in the late 1960s on the stage. In 1970, he starred in the Broadway production of Purlie, for which he earned both a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award.
Brooks receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010. Mel Brooks is an actor, comedian, and filmmaker of the stage, television, and screen. He started his work as a comedy writer, actor, and then director of 11 feature films including The Producers (1967), Young Frankenstein (1974), and Blazing Saddles (1974).
Martin Chilton looks back on how the creation, making and legacy of ‘Blazing Saddles’ were as anarchic as the film itself Blazing Saddles at 50: Against all odds, Mel Brooks created the ...
Written by Brooks and a team of writers that included the late, great Richard Pryor, Blazing Saddles remains the 96-year-old director's biggest box-office hit, and picked up three Oscar ...
[1] [2] [3] Blazing Saddles was awarded the #6 slot on the American Film Institute's list of Top 100 comedy films of all time. [4] Hertzberg started working as an assistant director in commercials, television and feature films. [5] He was the first assistant director to Frank Perry on the hit cult film, The Swimmer, starring Burt Lancaster.
HBO Max has added a disclaimer to Mel Brooks’ 1974 comedy “Blazing Saddles” that puts the film’s racist, explicit material into the appropriate context.As with the intro that was added to ...
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