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Blazing Saddles

Uniquely for a spoof, and certainly unique in Mel Brook's oeuvre, it has a darkly angry heart. It is a film about real bigotry, a phony West and the unreliability of movies as repositories for a shared history.

Determined that Blazing Saddles wouldn't end slowly, Brooks has provided for it a totally uninhibited Hollywood fantasy...

...a burlesque about a western town standing in the way of the railroad expansion and the black sheriff sent to discourage its citizens from deserting...

...the more Blazing Saddles seems in danger of toppling over, the funnier it is, because Brooks is willing to go to any lengths necessary to get a laugh.