Blazing Saddles
Blazing Saddles
A town where everyone seems to be named Johnson is in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, Hedley Lemar, a politically connected nasty person, sends in his henchmen to make the town unlivable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor. Hedley convinces him to send the town its first sheriff.
Matthew Ulm reviewedMay 22, 2025
It is one of my personal favorites and most irreverent I know of. This and Frankenstein are Gene and Mel and their very best. How the actors were able to do this film with straight faces I will never know. If you hear the handkerchief by Mel Brooks, the story explains everything.