Blazing Saddles (1974) Front Cover Actor Cleavon Little Bart Gene Wilder Jim, the Waco Kid Movie Details Director Mel Brooks Language English Audience Rating R Running Time 105 mins Country USA Color Color Plot Vulgar, crude, and occasionally scandalous in its racial humor, this hilarious bad-taste spoof of Westerns, co-written by Richard Pryor , features Cleavon Little as the first black sheriff of a stunned town scheduled for demolition by an encroaching railroad. Little and co-star Gene Wilder have great chemistry, and the delightful supporting cast includes Harvey Korman , Slim Pickens , and Madeline Kahn as a chanteuse modelled on Marlene Dietrich . As in Young Frankenstein (1974), Silent Movie (1976), and High Anxiety (1977), director/writer Mel Brooks gives a burlesque spin to a classic Hollywood movie genre; in his own manic, Borscht Belt way, Brooks was a central player in revising classic genres in light of Seventies values and attitudes, an effort most often associated with such directors as Robert Altman and Peter Bogdanovich . Some of this film's sequences, notably a gaseous bean dinner around a campfire, have become comedy classics. — Robert Firsching Personal Details Seen It Yes Index 404 In Collection Yes Product Details Format DVD Region Region 1 Release Date 2003 Nr of Disks/Tapes 1