First Time Watching "BLAZING SADDLES" (1974) UNCOMFORTABLE HILARITY!
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- Blazing Saddles (1974)
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.
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Blazing Saddles is a 1974 American satirical Western black comedy film directed by Mel Brooks. Starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder, the film was written by Brooks, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, and Alan Uger, and was based on Bergman's story and draft. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and audiences, was nominated for three Academy Awards and is ranked No. 6 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years...100 Laughs list.
Brooks appears in three supporting roles, Governor William J. Le Petomane, a Yiddish-speaking Native American chief and "a director" in line to help invade Rock Ridge (a nod to Hitchcock); he also dubs lines for one of Lili von Shtupp's backing troupe. The supporting cast includes Slim Pickens, Alex Karras, and David Huddleston, as well as Brooks regulars Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn, and Harvey Korman. Bandleader Count Basie has a cameo as himself, appearing with his orchestra.
The film satirizes the racism obscured by myth-making Hollywood accounts of the American West, with the hero being a black sheriff in an all-white town. The film is full of deliberate anachronisms, from the Count Basie Orchestra playing "April in Paris" in the Wild West, to Slim Pickens referring to the Wide World of Sports.
In 2006, Blazing Saddles was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
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This film is not racist - it makes fun of racism!
This was the most anti-racist movie of the 1970s. Literally NONE of the humor in that movie was "offensive" except for racists who don't like being laughed at....
"Was that real!?" when Mongo punches the horse...The horse was trained to throw his head to the side and "fall" when the rider (who was also the trainer) tugged on the reins. If you go back and watch the trainer's hands, you can see him give the horse the signal. It's exactly the same way a human actor is trained to get punched on camera. The trick is, your attention is on Mongo, so no one is looking at the rider's hands.
It was extremely convincing lol
Many many many horses have been trained to do "falls" in the movies
@@GhostWatcher2024 A lot of older movies unfortunately used running W's (trip wires); good to know that wasn't the case here.
People tell Mel Brooks, "You couldn't make that movie today." He responds, "We couldn't make this then!" Also, Richard Pryor wrote a good bit of this.
I think movies today are worse than this.
Richard Pryor mostly wrote the bits about Mongo.
Mel Brooks' point of view in this movie basically was "You can't show how stupid racist people are without showing them being racist."
The line "You know, morons!" was improvised by Gene, and Cleavon's laugh was authentic.
Seemed like it
My favourite line in the movie. So true!
@@FlixTalk Try "Dracula: Dead And Loving It". You won't be disappointed. Stay safe and be well. Also, you have to watch this from the beginning. It's actually an anti-racist movie. It makes fun of racism using ignorant racist whites. So actually, the joke's on whitey.
Obviously there's a big difference between *wrong* and *depicting wrong to ridicule it*.
Mel Brooks as an Yiddish Indian war chief always cracks me up.
To make that even stranger, there was a belief in the 19th century that Native Americans were the Lost Tribes of Israel. Now that's weird!
@@simonbeaird7436 Mormons Believe this!
The common clay of the New West?
"I guess this was before him in Richard Pryor flicks." Actually , this was a Richard Pryor flick. He was Mel Brooks 1st choice for sheriff Bart but because of some public drug issues and arrests he wasn't insurable, otherwise this would have been their 1st on air team up. As it was he was one of the writers for it.
This is true, and Pryor helped write this movie... But I think it was a Blessing Pryor could not do the movie, Because Little really was a better choice in this one.
Pryor wrote most of the "black" jokes. Or what millenial snowflakes would consider "racist" jokes. In fact, this was the most ANTI-racism movie of it's time.
At the time it was made, Blazing Saddles did more to highlight the sheer stupidity of racism than any other movie. The reaction of people today, looking through the lense of years of PC culture, means they can't see beyond the "offensive" language to the point of the film.
@@YN97WA In other words, this movie highlights the sheer stupidity of the PC brigade.
@@bessarion1771 I am likely one of those of whom you speak, and it seems to me that you grasped for a straw in an effort to be more reactionary than I’ve ever been accused of, and that’s saying something.
Being in my mid 50s it’s always hilarious to me to see how uncomfortable words make younger people. I’m mixed race, born in the 60s(think about that for a minute) my childhood was the 70s and I partied like crazy in the 80s. I’ve been called many things and some were so funny I still use them today and never once was I offended. Why? They are just words. Words only have the power that you give them. It’s really sad that humor like this can’t exist anymore because the world is to damn sensitive. It seems like you were able to appreciate the humor and I applaud that, not many your age would . A good reaction to one of the greatest comedies of all time
I couldn't agree more!
Charlie: They said you was hung.
Bart: And they was right.
Best joke in the movie. 😆😆😆
My favorite line too
Best joke^^
second place goes to “bitch was inventing the candy gram”
I think "Pardon me while I whip this out" is even funnier.
This and Young Frankenstein are my favorite Mel Brooks movies!
Much agree
Also, one that I don't see being shown much these days......Silent Movie. OH! And High Anxiety!! lol
Superb!
Wilder wrote Young Frankenstein, and part of Wilder's price to take the role of Jim was that Brooks direct YF
Nobody got the 'Laurel & Hardey' joke from the Mayor.
That Morons line wasnt writen. Gene improved that. Broke Clevon up.😆
Yeah, everyone missed the Laurel & Hardy gag and they didn`t know the Orchestra in the desert was
Count Basie and his Orchestra and there was a suggestion that two of the "Johnsons" in the town was the beginning of "Johnson & Johnson" 😂😂
Mel Brooks is Jewish, he knows what oppression and prejudice looks like. And as a comedian, he knew how to make racism funny.
Agreed
The " Jewish Indians " was a shoutout to the fact that a lot of old western employed Jews to play the parts if Indians in westerns
He makes racism funny to disarm it. I mean he is a Jewish guy that would make people laugh by making Hitler ridiculous. He was 13 by the time World War 2 came around. He defeated hate with laughter.
@@rickcoona And a lot of Italians. The "crying Indian" from the 1970s commercials on litter was an Italian man who made a career for himself playing "Iron Eyes Cody."
Mongo is played by Alex Karras he played football and just went into the hall of Fame this year.
He was great!
Also played the dad on Webster
One my all time favorite comedies. Clevon Little threatening himself is the funniest scene ever.
Also my favorite scene followed by "Where da white women at?"
Mel Brooks originally wanted to cast Richard Pryor in the role, but the studio felt that his prior arrest record for drug possession made him uninsurable, so Cleavon Little was cast instead. Just think, the Gene Wilder/Richard Pryor duo could've begun years earlier than it did.
Hey Rasmussen, a little known performance by Clevon was in the last non CGI speed movie. “ Vanishing Point” starring Clevon Little as a blind soul DJ in the middle of nowhere directing a hell-bent X race car driver ( Barry Newman) throughout the west at real speed outrunning a helicopter in his supercharged 1970 Dodge Challenger.
The point of Mel Brooks' satire was to show how stupid racism is. Remember that 1974 was right after all the civil rights upheaval during the 1960's, and less than 30 years after WWII, so he was criticizing racism against black people and making fun of the Nazis, too. He wasn't doing all of that just because he could. Your message often resonates better when you're making people laugh. I really believe comedy and music have led to much positive change, and they continue to do so now.
Using ANY language to parody racism is not the same as racism. Unfortunately, the current culture has lost the ability to view things in historical context, so a movie like this will never be made again for fear of offending someone.
I'm glad I saw this when it first came out, when viewers of all races and cultures found this hilarious and appreciated it's creativity and lack of nuance.
Steve B. Spot on.
I agree . When he said he was glad we have come so far, I thought , Are you crazy? You cannot even say hello in this butt hurt world. There is too much political capitol in race baiting today. And the comment that now we can look back on this and laugh shows he missed the point. What exactly did he think we did back then? We watched this and got the message. We laughed at the jokes. Its satire. At least he laughed at the jokes, even if he makes erroneous assumptions about the 70's. We can forgive that somewhat since he was not there.
I watched "Demolition Man" recently, and was amazed at how similar that movie's bland and inoffensive future looked to today's PC-at-all-costs culture. It was funny then, but it's not so funny now.
@@midnightwind8067 You get it, unfortunately our reactor did not. So sad. Back in 74, we all understood that what was going on in this movie was a complete repudiation of racism in the most hilarious way. I watched this movie at age 20 at the Fox Venice theater where half the audience was black and they were laughing their asses off with everyone else. We could all laugh at ourselves and take a joke 50 years ago; not today where people live in fear of being cancelled. Mel Brooks was more Woke back in 74 then the Wokest person in 2021.
It's not really in a historical context, though. The movie is making fun of racists in contemporary issues as well and that's why it still works.
why is it a movie, made recently, like Django, can use language of the period and be considered a masterpiece but a comedy made almost 50 years ago using the language of the period be considered "objective"? both are using the language to separate the ignorant from the accepting and point out racism is repulsive..I think that's kind of hypocritical.
you would be surprised how loose and free satire was in the 70s. broke down a lot of raciest crap with satire. we need it now more then ever
Seriously. All in the Family did this brilliantly as well. Also the Jeffersons did as well to a lesser extent. George was a big of a bigot towards white people and especially mixed marriages.
Richard Pryor helped write the script. The legend is that Brooks wrote the black actors' dialoge, while Pryor wrote the white folks.
Part of the problem today is that you CAN"T joke like that, or you risk getting cancelled. Absolutely stupid.
It was humour like that, dissing EVERYONE that was building up ties between all. I lived it FFS.
That must be why Quentin Tarantino got cancelled.
I heard this was the first movie ever in history to portray fart sounds.
It's twue. It's twue.
It's not a racist movie. It's a movie about racism... and it's making fun of it.
16:46 It's the French Mistake!
The words ARE the moves!
Look:
"Throw out your hands,
"Stick out your tush
"Hands on your hips
"Give 'em a push
"You'll be surprised
"You're doing the French mistake...
"Voila!"
Jeez!
Which was a nod to the big Buzzby Berkley musicals. ( that hired a lot of gay men as dancers)
@@rickcoona You will definitely want to look up Busby Berkeley.
This scene has nothing to do with anything about Busby Berkeley
This was referrential to Fred Astaire dancing down a flight of stairs.
I love when people these days say stuff like "Can't say that"...
You can, in fact, say whatever you like in America... even to this very day. The problem is that you're all too scared to speak your mind for fear of cancel culture.
Exactly...... 90% of the population have no arsehole...
I remember the first time this played on tv, they cut the farts and added cows mooing, but left all the n-words. You couldn't say "god damn" either on tv, which led to phrases like, "gosh-darned n-word"... Shameful. I wasn't even in my teens then, and I still recognized that disparity in values. Damn funny movie, though.
There is nothing wrong poking fun at something as stupid as racism. Its called comedy. This generation has lost perspective. There's a time for being serious and then there's a time to laugh at ourselves and our stupid ways that we live that we call life.
I felt so bad for this guy not being able to just "let go" and enjoy the movie, he just seemed so inhibited the whole time. Yes we knew it was wrong at the time, but we got that it was poking fun at and exposing the absurdity. Today people seem more interested in fake virtual signaling than just keeping it real.
Now flash back to your viewing of Robin Hood: Men in Tights when Ahchoo is made the new sherrif of Nottingham and says "It worked in Blazing Saddles."
"Is That Real?", NO! That was a highly trained stunt horse.
This film is so over the top but in a good way. To Be or Not to Be (1983) is another Mell Brooks classic. Along with the Gene Wilder | Richard Pryor classics Silver Streak (1976) and See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989).
Young Frankenstein is a must see Mel Brooks movie.
I agree 100%. Cannot be missed! It is hysterical!
The original (1967) version of "The Producers" is also a must-see. It's the one with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder. The remake is also good, but the original is extremely funny and just outrageous for its time.
After the death of Gene Wilder in August of 2016, Mel Brooks and Burton Gilliam are the only survivors of the 14 main cast members. Mel Brooks was one of the older cast members, being 47 at the time of filming, with only Slim Pickens and Liam Dunn being older at the time of filming; they died at age 64 and 59 respectively.
The lady who said is someone going to help that poor man, I believe she passed away a few months ago.
@@kennethspears22
That was Carol Arthur. Dom DeLuise who was also in a small role in Blazing Saddles was her husband.
Hopefully reactors understand that the dialog and gags were written and produced by Mel Brooks (a Jew) and Richard Pryor (and others). The point was to mock and stand up to prejudice and racism by showing its absurdity. This and another Mel Brooks gem, Young Frankenstein, are funnier than snot and are 2 of my favorite all time movies.
Plan to check out Young Frankenstein soon as well! Thanks for the comment!
want more gene wilder? The Story of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother. want more Mel? High Anxiety, Young Frankenstein, Dracula: Dead and Loving It
Now you've got to see Young Frankenstein! 😊 More Gene Wilder, more Madeline Kahn.
I was 25 when I went to see this at the theatre, the black audience laughed harder than the whites...
Satire done well is hilarious. I laugh at Latin stereotypes done well myself in movies and tv
several of the the white actors were hesitant to use the "n" word, one(Lyle) almost didn't take the part because of it. Little and Pryor assured them that it would be ok because it's only a character role.
The "morons" line wasn't an out-take per se, but Gene Wilder did ad lib the line on set, so Cleavon Little's reaction is real.
Mel Brook's as the indian chief has an added Easter Egg, in that he's speaking Yiddish. Translated, he says (roughly):
"Schvartzes" = "Blacks" (The term is derogatory)
“Zeit nisht meshugge" = "Don't be crazy"
"Loz im geyn" = "Let them go"
"Abi gezunt” = "As long as you've got your health".
"Hosti gezn in deyn lebn" = "Have you ever seen in your life?"
Now you must watch "Young Frankenstein."
Great video! One of my favorite comedies of all time. I always loved how every person in Rockridge has the last name Johnson and how Hedley Lamar is absolutely ridiculous.
I loved his rivlets of transient thought. (or whatever 😂)
Hedy Lamarr sued for the use of her name without permission
And Mel's response was "pay her, it's heady Lamar for god's sake"
The burbs...havent seen any reviewer do it...tom hanks
Richard Pryor came up with the character "Mongo."
My favorite little detail: Bart has the movie popcorn in his hands at the end
Mel Brooks is a genius with satire and this film is a racial satire; and therefore, not a racist movie. (The studios back then were more concerned with the farting scene more than anything else.) Things that can't be said will be said because of the rules of parody. Everyone is a target 😂 this genre takes no prisoners! Trippy as heck but this movie will stay a comedy classic, esp with breaking the 4th wall too!! Richard Pryor's writing shines through here 🤣 Good choice to react to.
On the extended DVD there is a pilot episode of a show that was called Black Bart. It was the character of the sheriff, and it was played by Lou Gosset JR.
The Richard Pryor/Gene Wilder movies started with _Silver Streak_ in 1976, another favorite movie of mine.
Nobody mentions SLIM PICKENS. This guy is legendary.
Humor is based on being "offensive" to any and all groups. They are usually based on stereotypes. Blonde jokes, old people jokes, redneck jokes and yes, jokes about people of color. People need to pull that stick out of their behinds and stop being so sensitive and overly critical. I myself am a guy with handicaps and I most enjoy jokes about the handicapped. There's a man with no arms or legs laying on the doorstep. You know his name has to be Matt!
We haven't gone anywhere as a people, we are right back to supposed racists, skin color and classism. We were in a better place when these movies were out, we could all laugh at racism. Now we have the news telling minorities that white people are bad....which further divides us.
Comedy movies haven't gotten better with "woke" movies and comedy....it sucks.
When you said, “I’m really not a PC guy” - I immediately subscribed! I like that! 👌🏻😉
A lot of negative comments criticizing the reactor as too sensitive, PC, and missing the point of the movie. Obviously they’re racists. ;)
Watching millennials react stupidly is also uncomfortable hilarity,
Stupidly? Lol don't know what that means but yeah in a millennial..who the fuck cares lol
Those saying it is "racist" are idiots. It is anything but.
FANTASTIC movie though!
Check out Young Frankenstein Mel Brooks' follow-up to B.Z. also starring Gene Wilder and Madeline Kahn. It's a spoof on the Frankenstein movies. Hilarious.
too young but check on randolph scott actor heddy lammar actress richard dix actor marlene dietrich actress 1930s 40s send ups
There is a difference between a racist movie and a movie that portrays racists as villains and fools.
But some people just aren't bright enough to get it.
Mel Brooks wrote most of it. But Richard Pryor did too. Very intelligent comedy skits.
To this day I haven't seen any of these videos where the person noticed that everyone in town has the last name "Johnson" xD
Yeah, the whole Howard Johnsons restaurant thing has faded too far into the mist. I've also never seen any of these reactions where they pick up on the Hedley Lamarr joke. In 1974 EVERYBODY knew who Hedy Lamarr was. She was only in her 50s at the time and was world famous. Madeline Kahn's role was a brilliant parody of parts Hedy Lamarr played in a few '30s westerns. There are many other examples of topical humor in this movie that are always missed.
If you really like seeing a pie in the face, you must watch 'The Great Race' (1965). It has the largest pie fight in movie history.
It's also a fun one, with an archetypical hero versus an archetypical villain.
They offered a role in the film to John Wayne.
He turned it down, because it wasn't the type of film that he is known for.
But he said he would be in the front row of the film premiere
To me this movie is one of the best comedy movies of all time
"Badges ? We don't need no stinking badges !"
Sad to see this quote has faded out of American pop culture. Not included in any UA-cam reaction.
Sorry bud. Yes that part was funny. And being Mexican American I've heard that phrase all my life
It's from the classic Humphrey Bogart movie "Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
Punching out the horse is so cool that Arnie copied it - punching out a camel in "Conan The Barbarian"
A movie that could NEVER be made today!!
They thought that when this was released. It could still be made, it would need to be someone with balls.
Tarantino could do it, rode side-by-side with Django.
Nonsense:
*Django Unchained*
Black hero starts from the bottom of society, lucks into a position of authority, teams up with a more experienced white gunslinger, brings justice to the unjust
They even used the gag where they lured the racist bad guys near the cache of explosives with a silly deception, and then detonated it from a distance with expert sharphooting
N-word count:
Blazing saddles: Seventeen
Django: ONE HUNDRED AND TEN
Glad you got that role reversal! First reactor I've seen pick that up!
This movie doesn't just break the fourth wall it obliterated it.
"Have you ever seen such cruelty?" In Portland last year.
In Chicago for the last 50 years...
@@ffjsb Touche.
@@ffjsb Yet Chicago is not in the top 25 cities for gun violence...touche.
You took it too seriously
I loved this movie as a kid, and I still love it as an adult!!! Great reaction!!!
Mel Brooks was one of the writers on "Your Show of Shows", a mega hit live comedy show from the 50's which is sort of a model for SNL. That would explain why each scene seems like it's own skit.
Wow..makes alot of sense to me now. Thanks for the info!
He was also the primary writer for Get Smart
That was a real horse trained to play dead anf flop on the ground. The punch was fake.
The funniest thing about it is that race relations were generally better in the 70s than they are now.
We didn't have a political party stirring the pot and throwing gasoline on it 😱
Objectively not true
if you liked this movie, and airplane, you should watch Hotshots! Cleavon Little was in 1971's Vanishing Point, a great car movie! He's not the main star but, he has a great part!
Always support a Vanishing Point suggestion - just make sure it's the 1971 original, NOT the utterly bullshit remake.
I would very much add Top Secret to that list
The singer of the song Blazing Saddles was Frankie Laine. He was a popular singer in the 40's and 50's, but also sang the majority of western theme songs. He did not know the movie was a comedy, so the seriousness of the performance just adds to the movie.
They put out a request for someone to sing like Frankie Laine. Frankie Laine answered it, and got the job. The whips were overdubbed later.
Mel Brooks purposely never told Frankie Laine that it would be a comedy specifically for that reason. Because he didn't think Laine would give him a serious performance if he knew it was for a comedy.
@@rickylyon3846 Thank you
I know I'm a year late, but at 10:43 the native Americans are speaking Yiddish. If you're Jewish or grew up around a lot of Ashkenazi Jews, this is very funny.
The full translation:
Shvartses! - Black ppl!
No, no, zayt nisht meshuge! - No, no, Don't be crazy!
Loz im geyn! - Let him go!
(In English) Cop a walk, it's alright.
Auf wiedersehen - Goodbye
(In English)Take off!
Hosti gezen in dayne lebn? - Have you ever seen such a thing?
(In English) They darker than us! Woof!
Lol thanks for the translation. I remember growing up Howard Stern says ng Shvartses all the time , so that word I've heard before lol
If you like Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder, then I'll be waiting for your Young Frankenstein video.
Mel Brooks made movies for people who had brains and common sense and who understood mockery and satire. Today, nobody under 30 would understand the point of what he was trying to say. They'd just automatically be offended because that's their knee-jerk reaction to pretty much everything. That's the sad part. They don't know what they're missing.
Absolutely spot on!
We all knew it was making fun of racism back then.
Not sure why you say that the word Chink, the N word cannot be used in todays movies. there are a lot of movies made in 2015 to 2021 that use racial words through the whole movie and just as many Asian, black etc like the movies as much as caucasians.
Hollywood can choose to say whatever they want in writing . I don't make the movies. It's just most snear at that writing
While Cleavon Little had a pretty long career in television and such, the only other movie role I remember him from is Vanishing Point, where he was a radio host in a small town. Damn good car movie from the 70s.
It's truly a live action looney tunes cartoon
Yep, Cleavon Little as Bugs Bunny, Harvey Korman as Wile E. Coyote, Slim Pickens as Yosemite Sam, David Huddleston as Foghorn Leghorn, and Alex Karras as Gossamer. LOL
Please please please...Young Frankenstein next!
The first pairing of Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor was in Silver Streak 1976
I watched it on TCM a couple if nights ago, after a couple of decades and it cracked me up even more. They had an electrifying chemistry having fun together
Great movie. You should see High Anxiety also from Mel Brooks which a spoof on Alfred Hitchcock movies.
Building the fake town was a parody of the Clint Eastwood classic "High Plains Drifter."
People are to soft and offended way to easy.
The guy who played Gabby Johnson (he spoke authentic frontier gibberish) was Jack Starrett, in the movie First Blood (Rambo pt-1) he was the cop who fell out of the helicopter, Blazing Saddles, fighting racism with racism pure comic genius and 47 years on its still funny as f#@k and still able to kick racism square in the nuts...
Alex Karras (Mongo) was a NFL star defensive lineman in the 1960's and 70's.
In 2021, he would be SMALL, tiny, much too small to go against modern day O-linemen at 300 lbs
College linemen in the 50's and 60's were smaller than ME...6'1", 215 while playig WR at TEXAS in the 80's. in 1960, they would have made me an offensive lineman or a TE. Seriously.
Look at their rosters and how SMALL linemen were back then. Most right around 200 lbs
Google college teams rosters back then
Wheel chair man from the big Lebowski “ the other Lebowski “and I think Quentin took the sheriffs ride in and brought it back in Django’s entrance as well
The role of Bart was intended for Richard Pryor, but due to the controversial nature of Pryor's stand-up routines of the day, and his reputation, Mel Brooks couldn't secure financing for the project with Pryor in that role. So he was made a co-writer of the script, and Cleavon Little played Bart.Richard Pryor came up with the character "Mongo."
Good stuff dude, just subed.
Only other movie I can think of with clevon little is once bitten
YES! I loved that movie as a kid!
I agree about the 4th wall breaking, I think it ruined the ending. And the gag of seeing the movie in the theater as they're still making it, Brooks recycled that gag in "Spaceballs" where they were watching the video of themselves watching the video.
His most accessible film is "Young Frankenstein", a total classic which stars Gene Wilder with Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldon and Teri Garr at her cutest. Probably his best made film though is "High Anxiety" in which Brooks stars, it's a spoof of Alfred Hitchcock movies, I'm sure no one has reacted to that one. Harvey Korman and Madeline Kahn are in that too (and Cloris Leachman who's also in "Young Frankenstain").
Clevon Little was awesome as a blind DJ in a small dusty midwestern town. The movie from early 70s ? “Vanishing Point” the last authentic speed car movie. Insurance prohibited real high speed filming in all films afterwards. Now simulations or CGI fill the gap.
THe DVD & Blu-Ray has the pilot for a non-starter TV SitCom called "Black Bart" starring "Louie Gossett" (the great Lou Gossett Jr.) It had little to do with the movie, but worth a watch.
So much of the humor, Laurel & Hardy, Count Basy, Wide Wide World of Sports, Howard Johnsons 1 flavor...go right past the younger watchers.
Watch the ORIGINAL.....( NOT the remake...)...'The Producers'......by Mel Brooks. Starred Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, & Dick Shawn. It came out sometime in the 1960s.
RE: The premier for Blazing Saddles in Blazing saddles...
Wait 'til you see Spaceballs.