A seasoned political man named Headley Limar is trying to control all the territory inside the city. In order to achieve his goal, he tried to send in his followers to make the city unusable to seize it. After the time, Sharif was killed in the city, and the city Sharif asked the governor. Headley tries to convince the governor to send the first black sheriff in the West, a man named Bart, a politically sophisticated man who is trying to do more but will face some obstacles in defeating the small city population.
Although Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder head a uniformly competent cast, pic is handily stolen by Harvey Korman and Madeline Kahn. Kahn is simply terrific doing a Marlene Dietrich lampoon.
Its genius, then and now, was the manner in which director Mel Brooks and his writers turned a broad Western spoof into what was, for its time, a revolutionary satire of race relations.
Blazing Saddles has no dominant personality, and it looks as if it includes every gag thought up in every story conference. Whether good, bad, or mild, nothing was thrown out.
Goldarned if the whole fool enterprise is not worth the attention of any moviegoer with a penchant for what one actor, commenting on another's Gabby Hayes imitation, calls 'authentic western gibberish.'
