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Blazing Saddles

Release Date:February 7, 1974

Running Time:93 min

Genres:Comedy, Western

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Cast

Cleavon Little Gene Wilder Slim Pickens Harvey Korman Madeline Kahn Mel Brooks Burton Gilliam Alex Karras David Huddleston Liam Dunn John Hillerman George Furth

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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.

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