Blazing Saddles and all you can eat Texas chili

Sunday, December 27 at 6:00 pm

Film is $5.00

Film and Texas chili is $13

Screenings are 13 and over. Those under 17 years old must be accompanied by a parent

Box Office opens 30 minutes prior to screening

$13 gets you in the door and all the Texas chili you can eat… comes with one side of corn bread and salad!

Never give a saga an even break!

Blazing Saddles (1974) is a satirical Western comedy film directed by Mel Brooks. Starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder, it was written by Brooks, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, and Al Uger, and was based on Bergman’s story and draft. The movie was nominated for three Academy Awards, and is considered one of the great American comedies, coming in at number six on AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Laughs list. The Ultimate Western Spoof. A town where everyone seems to be named Johnson is in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, Hedley Lemar, a politically connected nasty person, sends in his henchmen to make the town unlivable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor. Hedley convinces him to send the town the first Black sheriff in the west. Bart is a sophisticated urbanite who will have some difficulty winning over the townspeople.

Brooks appears in multiple supporting roles, including Governor Le Petomane and a Yiddish-speaking Indian Chief. Slim Pickens, Alex Karras, David Huddleston, and Brooks regulars Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn, and Harvey Korman are also featured. Musician Count Basie has a cameo as himself. The film exposes the racism obscured by myth-making Hollywood accounts of the American West, but in a highly satirical way; the racist slur “nigger” is heard 17 times in Blazing Saddles, while the film’s hero is black.

Roger Ebert called the film a “crazed grabbag of a movie that does everything to keep us laughing except hit us over the head with a rubber chicken. Mostly, it succeeds. It’s an audience picture; it doesn’t have a lot of classy polish and its structure is a total mess. But of course! What does that matter while Alex Karras is knocking a horse cold with a right cross to the jaw?”