Actor:          Cleavon Little, Harvey Korman, Slim Pickens, Madeline Kahn, Gene Wilder
Director:     Mel Brooks
Genre:         Comedy
Year:            1974
Studio:         Warner Home Video
Length:        93
Released:    September 5, 2006
Rating:         Restricted (MPAA Rating)
Format:         Blu-Ray
Misc:             Color
Language:   English, French, Spanish
Subtitles:  ;   English, French, Spanish

DESCRIPTION:

The railroad's got to run through the town of Rock Ridge. How do you drive out the townfolk in order to steal their land? Send in the toughest gang you've got...and name a new sheriff who'll last about 24 hours. But that's not really the plot of Blazing Saddles, just the pretext. Once Mel Brooks' lunatic film - many call it his best - gets started, logic is lost in a blizzard of gags, jokes, quips, puns, howlers, growlers and outrageous assaults upon good taste or any taste at all. Cleavon Little as the new lawman, Gene Wilder as the wacko Waco Kid, Brooks himself as a dim-witted politico and Madeline Kahn in her Marlene Dietrich send-up that earned an Academy Award nomination all give this sagebrush saga their lunatic best. And when Blazing Saddles can't contain itself at the finale, it just proves the Old West will never be the same!

Special Features

Audio commentary from Mel Brooks

28-minute retrospective featurette "Back in the Saddle"

3-minute excerpt from the Lifetime cable special "Intimate Portrait: Madeline Kahn"

Complete 1975 TV pilot for "Black Bart"

Alternate scenes

Theatrical trailer in 2.40:1 widescreen and 480p video