Blazing Saddles

Archive - Festival 32
Director: Mel Brooks
USA 1974
93 minutes
English
Subtitles in Hebrew

The Haifa IFF honors the life and career of Gene Wilder (1933–2016) and celebrates the 90th birthday of Mel Brooks (born 1926) by presenting one of their great films. Blazing Saddles is every Western you've ever seen turned upside down and inside out as a black sheriff (Cleavon Little) and his white sidekick (Gene Wilder) save the town of Ridge Rock from land speculators.
“I really believe that it's the funniest movie ever made. Sometimes you get lucky” - Mel Brooks.
Filmography: High Anxiety (1977), Silent Movie (1976), Young Frankenstein (1974), The Twelve Chairs (1970), The Producers (1968).
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Director Mel Brooks
Production Michael Hertzberg
Script Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Alan Uger, Andrew Bergman
Cinematography Joseph F. Biroc
Editing Danford B. Greene, John C. Howard
Music John Morris
Actors Gene Wilder, Cleavon Little, Madeline Kahn, Slim Pickens, Mel Brooks
Source Park Circus, Glasgow