Thursday, August 25, 2011

Blazing Saddles (1974)

A crooked government official wants to drive the people of Rock Ridge out of town and buy all the land there, because the railroad will pass there increasing the value of the land.

Second viewing. It begins as a ferocious satire of the U.S. of 100 years ago. Whether and how that reverberates to present-day U.S. is anybody's guess. The rest of it is sheer ludicity.

Rating: 63 (unchanged)

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