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Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has announced the 40th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray release of Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles, which stars Cleavon Little, Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn, Gene Wilder and Brooks himself. The new Blu-ray release of the classic comedy arrives with new, exclusive special features on May 6th.
Blazing Saddles, one of Warner Bros.' most successful ever, is listed as #6 on the American Film Institute's (AFI) list of the best comedies of all time. First released in 1974, the movie grossed nearly $120 million at the domestic box office and has sold more than 4.6 million Blu-rays and DVDs. The Western film genre spoof is one of Brooks' most commercially successful films, along with Young Frankenstein, also released that same year.
Tech specs have yet to be detailed. Special features and bonus content includes:
•NEW - Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West - Brooks reflects on his own movie-making chutzpah, Blazing Saddles' lasting cultural impact on audiences of all generations, and alongside co-stars Gene Wilder and Madeline Kahn, proves why his film is one of the funniest and most outrageous film ever made.
•10 Exclusive Art Cards with funny quotes and images from the film
•Audio Commentary with Mel Brooks
•Back in the Saddle: cast reunion documentary
•Black Bart: 1975 television pilot inspired by the movie
•Deleted Scenes
•Theatrical Trailer
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=13156
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That's always frustrating when some of us already have the original Blu-ray. It's like the big 5 1/2 hour "Pride & Prejudice," which has had a series of upgrades, leaving me with THREE versions of it on DVD and now the dilemma of wanting to buy it again on Blu-ray just for the added special features. "Blazing Saddles" was such an hysterically funny movie, and probably my favorite from Mel Brooks!
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Plus many of us also bought it on VHS way back in the Dark Ages!
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Oh Yes, the disappearing airbrushed-out-of-history career of john morris.
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I've never really watched the film all the way through and even then, that was a long time ago, so I decided to watch it today.
The first thirty minutes or so are just painful. It's not funny, it's slow. And even when the good jokes do finally come in, they are sparse, mainly racial, and ultimately it's for me a long unenjoyable experience. The funny/"funny" jokes just don't outweigh the film as a whole for me.
The score by John Morris, is of course the only highlight of the film.
One of Mel's funniest? Hardly.
So, then I decided to check out the pilot, which I knew next to nothing about.
Well … that was a television pilot, that I can say. Not funny, not entertaining, boring, barely cohesive, and the acting leaves much to be desired. The score by Tom Scott is unremarkable and if it was never released on CD, I'd not be bothered.
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Andrew Bergman's first screenplay for this was titled Tex-X.
Mel Brooks and Richard Pryor came onboard later and added their spins on the material.
This movie was absolutely, positively intended to be a movie that wouldn't pander to the squares.
The black dude and the Jewish guy being the good guys were a good indicator of that.
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Sep 24, 2022 - 3:10 PM
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I remember seeing this at the cinema with my brother-in law (ABC Ealing Broadway), & he was laughing so much at the farting scene he fell out of his seat. I remember Mel Brooks turn as Governor Lepetomane being painfully unfunny, but the rest of it was great. I don't have it on disc, but I recorded it from BBC4 the other day, so it'll be interesting to see what I think of it now.
Piss on you, I'm working for Mel Brooks!
From IMDB:
"Production began with Gig Young as Jim, The Waco Kid. On the first day of shooting the scene where the drunk Waco Kid hangs from a bunk asking if Bart is black, Young revealed that he really was indeed drunk (he had had an alcohol problem for years) and proceeded to undergo a physical collapse on-set. According to Mel Brooks, "On the first day of shooting... we hung him upside down in the jail cell, and green stuff started spewing out of his mouth." Young's agent tried to defend him by explaining that he was a recovering alcoholic, with Brooks responding that wasn't actually recovered yet. Brooks shut down production for a day and Gene Wilder flew cross-country to take over the role. Young sued Warner Brothers for breach of contract."
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For uk viewers, Blazing Saddles is on bbc4 tonight (After Butch Cassidy n sundance kid)
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Well, if youve drunk too much woke wine in the years since, its probably not worth the time Mitch. 
I think truth is if you dig the film, you love it. If you dont dig it, then no amount of views is gonna change that.
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Like it apart from the very end, where it spills over into other studios.
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Dr Nuts-Score johnson is right about Olsen Johnson being right...
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... at least I recall laughing more than once. 
