BLAZING SADDLES

The railroad’s got to run through the town of Rock Ridge. How do you drive out the townfolk in order to steal their land? Send in the toughest gang you’ve got – and name a new sheriff who’ll last about 24 hours. But that’s not really what Blazing Saddles is about. Once Mel Brooks’ lunatic film (#6 on the American Film Institute’s List of the all-time Top-100 Comedy Movies) gets started, logic is lost in a blizzard of gags, jokes, quips, puns, howlers, growlers and outrageous assaults upon one’s funnybone.