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Blazing Saddles is a 1974 American western comedy film directed by Mel Brooks and written by Brooks, Richard Pryor, and Gene Wilder. The film stars Wilder, Brooks, Cleavon Little, Karen Black, and Richard Pryor. The film tells the story of an escaped black convict (Wilder) who is given the job of sheriff of a small town in the American Old West. The townspeople decide to build an exact replica of their town to fool the invading posse. The film descends into postmodern chaos as the action spills out of the film set into wider Hollywood.
Cleavon Little plays an escaped black convict who ends up being given the poison chalice job of the new Rockridge Sheriff by scheming railroad developer and politician Hedley LaMarr (Harvey Korman). Notionally sent in to protect the ungrateful Rockridge community from marauding gangs, his only ally turns out to be alcoholic former gunslinger The Waco Kid (Gene Wilder). Though initially expressing racial prejudice the townsfolk eventually adopt the Sheriff to help them outwit Hedley LaMarr, deciding to construct an exact replica of their town to fool the invading posse. The film descends into postmodern chaos as the action spills out of the film set into wider Hollywood.
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