Blazing Saddles 1974 - Reactor's Cut

[@drigerdranzer7514]

12:20 The biggest star of the whole cast. The legend Count Basie and his band.

[@YugSihtTsuj]

Someone once remarked to Mel Brooks that "you couldn't make that movie these days," and he replied "we couldn't make it _then."_

[@williamjones6031]

1. Mel Brooks played the Governor, the Indian Chief, and a round-up thug in the aviator hat. 2. Mel Brooks doesn't just break the 4th wall he shatters, steps on and grinds it into the ground. 3. The preacher/Liam Dunn also plays in Young "Frankenstein" as Mr. Hilltop. Madeline Kahn also had a smallish role in it. 4. Imagine how much fun this was to make.🤣🤣🤣🤣 5. The line, "You know morons" was ad lib by Wilder. Little's reaction was real. 6. The guy that was supposed to play Jim showed up the first day drunk, so he was let go. Wilder agreed to do this movie for Mel Brooks only if Mel would direct Young Frankenstein for him. 7. Richard Pryor was supposed to play Bart but he was going through his addictions at the time and they thought it wouldn't be a good idea. However, he did some of the writing. 8. Jim still has his popcorn from the theater. Movie suggestion "Young Frankenstein" with Gene Wilder PS: This was made when people still weren't afraid to laugh and have fun

[@royalspartantaketwo3107]

Thanks for all of the info and Movie suggestion. I'll put it in my next poll.

[@garylee3685]

Jesse Owens was an African American Olympic runner in the 30's.

[@bradb3248]

He ran in the 1936 Olympics in Munich winning four gold medals. Which rather pissed off Mr Hitler and the other Nazi scum.

[@oliverbrownlow5615]

More than that, Jesse Owens was a champion runner who humiliated Hitler at the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, Germany by winning four gold medals. Hitler had hoped to use the games to demonstrate Aryan (white) supremacy, but Owens' wins (more than any other athlete at the games) made him look like a fool.

[@peterblood50]

The horse was an accessory to the crime that the rider was being hung for. YES/ NO tells you which side you can pass on. (Like on a school bus)

[@kathrynroat9139]

I actually thought they just had the animal there so they could use the expression hung like a horse. Thank you!

[@oliverbrownlow5615]

Note that Cleavon Little's name precedes Gene Wilder's in the opening credits. As the Tony-Award-winning star of the Broadway musical *Purlie,* he may have been considered the bigger name.

[@hellsing507]

Amazing movie saw it with my dad back when I was 13, best satire of racism ever god bless Mel Brooks.

[@michaelschroeck2254]

Thank you so much for being brave and not bleeping out the “words that shall hot he named!!”

[@bwilliams463]

They hanged the horse as an Accessory to the crime; he was the getaway driver.

[@mephitismephitis6825]

Le Pétomane, was a French flatulist (professional fartist) and entertainer.

[@BarnDoorProductions]

Not to be confused with his cousin, the French flautist.

[@Jsspres]

Randolph Scott was a Western movie star in the 1950s. The two other Mel Brooks movies with Gene Wilder are The Producers and Young Frankenstein.

[@oliverbrownlow5615]

Randolph Scott's career in Westerns spanned 30 years, from 1932 to 1962.

[@danielstartek9729]

Hey Royal Spit Take eat another dozen donuts and cake and fudge and lard!