Blazing Saddles

Thursday, July 2 at 7:00 PM
Michigan

Film | Comedy/Western | R | 1h 33m | 1974
Part of Happy Birthday, Mel Brooks

In this satirical take on Westerns, crafty railroad worker Bart (Cleavon Little) becomes the first black sheriff of Rock Ridge, a frontier town about to be destroyed in order to make way for a new railroad. Initially, the people of Rock Ridge harbor a racial bias toward their new leader. However, they warm to him after realizing that Bart and his perpetually drunk gunfighter friend (Gene Wilder) are the only defense against a wave of thugs sent to rid the town of its population. From writer/director Mel Brooks.