Blazing saddles.

Resource Information

The work Blazing saddles. represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Reuben Hoar Library (Littleton). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

The Resource Blazing saddles.

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 ; a Crossbow production

Title variation: Mel Brooks' Blazing saddles

Contributor

Actor

Cinematographer

Biroc, Joseph, 1903-1996

Composer

Morris, John, 1926-2018

Distributor

Warner Home Video (Firm)

Film director

Brooks, Mel, 1926-

Film editor

Film producer

Hertzberg, Michael

Performer

Laine, Frankie, 1913-2007

Presenter

Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- )

Production company

Crossbow Productions

Publisher

Warner Bros. Entertainment

Screenwriter

Subject

Genre

Language

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

Member of

Awards note: Writers Guild of America, 1975: Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen (Brooks, Steinberg, Bergman, Pryor, Uger)

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

Dewey number: 791.43/72

Intended audience: MPAA rating: R

Language note: English, dubbed French or dubbed Spanish dialogue, with optional subtitles in English, French or 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

Context

Context of Blazing saddles.

Structured data from the Bibframe namespace is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by Reuben Hoar Library (Littleton). Additional terms may apply to data associated with third party namespaces.

Blazing saddles. Resource Information The work Blazing saddles. represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Reuben Hoar Library (Littleton). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Context

Work of

Blazing saddles.

Resource Information

The work Blazing saddles. represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Reuben Hoar Library (Littleton). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.