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Blazing Saddles

1974 Film Synopsis & Plot Summary

7.2/10

Rating

93 min

Runtime

1974

Release Year

Mel Brooks

Director

Cast

Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn

Quick Synopsis

A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lamarr sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.

Full Plot Summary of Blazing Saddles

A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lamarr sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.

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