Blazing Saddles

An engaging and often hilarious account of the history, impact, and legacy of Mel Brooks’s iconic Western send-up Blazing Saddles, based on original screenwriter interviews and featuring insightful modern commentary.

Mel Brooks’s Blazing Saddles shocked and delighted audiences upon its release in 1974. An homage to the West and the Western, this riotous parody also took to task the mythological idea of the West created by Hollywood over the course of the twentieth century, especially its por...