I was 15 and probably looked about 11 when "Blazing Saddles" was released in 1974, but my buddies and I had no trouble buying movie tickets. The kid at the counter was no cop, and the sweet lady ...
A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...
If you love satirical black comedies trying to reclaim narratives, Blazing Saddles (1974) is a great find. Helmed by Mel Brooks, it is an inspiring post-modernist political satire on how racism was ...
Editor’s Note: Noah Berlatsky (@nberlat) is a freelance writer in Chicago. The views expressed here are his own. View more opinion on CNN. On social media at least, Mel Brooks’ classic “Blazing ...
If anyone knows how to make a comedy, it's Mel Brooks. His body of work is rife with comedy classics like Young Frankenstein and Spaceballs, the latter of which has a sequel — at last — in production ...
Fifty years ago, actor and director Mel Brooks released what many consider to be one of the greatest films in American cinema, “Blazing Saddles,” a movie that highlighted the struggles of the American ...
Mel Brooks' satirical Western Blazing Saddles got mixed reviews when it opened in February 1974, but it became the year's biggest box office hit. Above, Cleavon Little, left, as Sheriff Bart and Gene ...
Mel Brooks as Blazing Saddles’ Gov. William J. Le Petomane and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott: the resemblance is uncanny. Credit: Left: © 1974 – Warner Bros.; Right ...
This Houston Chronicle review was originally published on March 15, 1974. The easiest way to deal with Mel Brooks' new film "Blazing Saddles" (at the Greenway Plaza, Northwest, Town & Country and ...
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