Blazing saddles

Resource Information

The work Blazing saddles represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Blazing saddles

Statement of responsibility

Warner Bros. Pictures ; a Mel Brooks film ; screenplay by Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Alan Uger ; story by Andrew Bergman ; produced by Michael Hertzberg ; directed by Mel Brooks

Title variation

Mel Brooks' Blazing saddles

Creator

• Blazing saddles (Motion picture)

Contributor

• Kahn, Madeline
• Karras, Alex
• Korman, Harvey, 1927-2008
• Laine, Frankie, 1913-2007
• Little, Cleavon
• Lukas, Karl, 1919-1995.
• McGregor, Charles, 1922-1996.
• Megowan, Don.
• Morris, John, 1926-2018
• Pickens, Slim
• Pryor, Richard, 1940-2005.
• Starrett, Jack, 1936-1989.
• Steinberg, Norman.
• Uger, Alan
• Wilder, Gene, 1933-2016.
• Collier, Richard, 1919-2000.
• Brooks, Mel, 1926-
• DeLuise, Dom
• Dunn, Liam, 1916-1976
• Biroc, Joseph, 1903-1996.
• Furth, George, 1932-2008
• Greene, Danford B
• Hertzberg, Michael
• Bergman, Andrew
• Hillerman, John
• Hilton, Robyn, 1940-
• Arthur, Carol, 1935-2020
• Howard, John C., 1930-1983
• Warner Home Video (Firm)
• Huddleston, David, 1930-2016
• Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- )

Actor

• Dunn, Liam, 1916-1976
• Wilder, Gene, 1933-2016.
• Starrett, Jack, 1936-1989.
• Pickens, Slim
• Furth, George, 1932-2008
• Collier, Richard, 1919-2000.
• Brooks, Mel, 1926-
• Megowan, Don.
• McGregor, Charles, 1922-1996.
• Lukas, Karl, 1919-1995.
• Little, Cleavon
• Korman, Harvey, 1927-2008
• Karras, Alex
• Kahn, Madeline
• Huddleston, David, 1930-2016
• Arthur, Carol, 1935-2020
• Hilton, Robyn, 1940-
• Hillerman, John
• DeLuise, Dom

Cinematographer

• Biroc, Joseph, 1903-1996.

Composer

• Morris, John, 1926-2018

Conductor

• Morris, John, 1926-2018

Director

• Brooks, Mel, 1926-

Producer

• Hertzberg, Michael

Screenwriter

• Steinberg, Norman.
• Bergman, Andrew
• Uger, Alan
• Pryor, Richard, 1940-2005.
• Brooks, Mel, 1926-

Subject

• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• West (U.S.) -- Ethnic relations -- Drama
• West United States
• Western films
• Western films
• Western -- Feature
• African American police
• African American police -- West (U.S.) -- Drama
• Afronorteamericanos -- Ieste (Estados Unidios) -- Teatro
• Comedy -- Feature
• Comedy films
• Comedy films
• DVD-Video discs
• Drama
• Ethnic relations
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Feature films -- United States
• Parody -- Feature
• Parody films
• Parody films
• Policía -- Ieste (Estados Unidios) -- Teatro
• Railroad companies
• Railroad companies -- Drama
• Sheriffs
• Sheriffs -- West (U.S.) -- Drama

Genre

• Parody
• Comedy films
• Parody films
• Western
• Comedy
• Teatro
• Feature films
• Drama
• Western films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• DVD-Video discs

Language

• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

Never give a saga an even break! Blazing Saddles is an iconoclastic, not-politically-correct parody; one of the 1970s most successful and popular films. Every clichéd element from every Western ever made is turned upside down and inside out, while retaining all the familiar caricatures--eh, characters--of the genre: a dance-hall girl, a gunslinger, a sheriff, and a town full of pure folk. Mel Brooks redefined film comedy and proved that even sophomoric, scatological humor could be used to ridicule prejudice, injustice, and apathy

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Joseph Biroc ; film editors, John C. Howard, Danford Greene ; choreography by Alan Johnson ; music composed and conducted by John Morris ; original songs "I'm Tired", "The French Mistake" and "The Ballad of Rock Ridge" music and lyrics by Mel Brooks, "Blazing Saddles" music by John Morris, lyrics by Mel Brooks, sung by Frankie Laine ; production designer, Peter Wooley ; choreography by Alan Johnson

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

MPAA rating: Rated R

Language note

Dialogue in English with optional soundtracks in French and Spanish and optional subtitles in English, French and Spanish; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired

LC call number

PN1995.9.C55

LC item number

B53 2004

PerformerNote

Cleavon Little (Bart), Gene Wilder (Jim), Slim Pickens (Taggart), David Huddleston (Olson Johnson), Liam Dunn (Rev. Johnson), Alex Karras (Mongo), John Hillerman (Howard Johnson), George Furth (Van Johnson), Claude Ennis Starrett Jr. (Gabby Johnson), Mel Brooks (Governor Lepetomane), Harvey Korman (Hedley Lamarr), Madeline Kahn (Lili Von Shtupp), Carol Arthur, Charles McGregor, Robyn Hilton, Richard Collier, Don Megowan, Karl Lucas, Dom DeLuise

Runtime

93

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action