cc All-new 30th-anniversary digital transfer Soundtrack remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1 Scene-specific commentary by Mel Brooks 2 blazingly boffo documentaries: Back in the Saddle Intimate Portrait: Madeline Kahn (Excerpt) Black Bart: 1975 pilot episode of the proposed tv series spinoff Additional scenes Theatrical trailer Languages: English & Español Subtitles: English, Français & Español Region: 1
[With BBQ Book] Audio: DD5.1/DD1
Rating: R Genre: Comedy Release Date: 05/23/2006 Dubbed: English/Espanol Sound: DD5.1/DD1 Run Time: 93 Minutes Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
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.