(Rated R)(1hr 33mins)
Vulgar, crude, and occasionally scandalous in its racial humor, this
hilarious bad-taste spoof of Westerns, co-written by Richard Pryor,
features Cleavon Little as the first black sheriff of a stunned town
scheduled for demolition by an encroaching railroad. Little and
co-star Gene Wilder have great chemistry, and the delightful
supporting cast includes Harvey Korman, Slim Pickens, and Madeline
Kahn as a chanteuse modelled on Marlene Dietrich. As in Young
Frankenstein (1974), Silent Movie (1976), and High Anxiety (1977),
director/writer Mel Brooks gives a burlesque spin to a classic
Hollywood movie genre; in his own manic, Borscht Belt way, Brooks was
a central player in revising classic genres in light of Seventies
values and attitudes, an effort most often associated with such
directors as Robert Altman and Peter Bogdanovich . Some of this film's
sequences, notably a gaseous bean dinner around a campfire, have
become COMEDY CLASSICS. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi
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