| Front Cover |
Actor |
Back Cover |
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| Cleavon Little |
Bart
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| Gene Wilder |
Jim
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| Mel Brooks |
Gov. William J. LePetomaine / Indian chief
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| Madeline Kahn |
Lili von Shtupp
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| Alex Karras |
Mongo
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| Harvey Korman |
Hedley Lamarr
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| Slim Pickens |
Taggart
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| David Huddleston |
Olson Johnson
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| Liam Dunn |
Reverend Johnson
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| John Hillerman |
Howard Johnson
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| George Furth |
Van Johnson
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| Jack Starrett |
Gabby Johnson
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| Richard Collier |
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| Carol DeLuise |
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| Dom DeLuise |
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| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Comedy; Family; Western |
| Director |
Mel Brooks |
| Producer |
Michael Hertzberg |
| Writer |
Mel Brooks; Andrew Bergman; Norman Steinberg |
| Photography |
Joseph F. Biroc |
| Musician |
Mel Brooks; John Morris; Vernon Duke |
| Studio |
Warner Bros. |
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
R (Restricted) |
| Running Time |
89 mins |
| Country |
USA |
| Color |
Color |
| IMDb Rating |
7.8 |
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| Plot |
| Mel Brooks scored his first commercial hit with this raucous Western spoof starring the late Cleavon Little as the newly hired (and conspicuously black) sheriff of Rock Ridge. Sheriff Bart teams up with deputy Jim (Gene Wilder) to foil the railroad-building scheme of the nefarious Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman). The simple plot is just an excuse for a steady stream of gags, many of them unabashedly tasteless, that Brooks and his wacky cast pull off with side-splitting success. The humor is so juvenile and crude that you just have to surrender to it; highlights abound, from the lunkheaded Alex Karras as the ox-riding Mongo to Madeline Kahn's uproarious send-up of Marlene Dietrich as saloon songstress Lili Von Shtupp. Adding to the comedic excess is the infamous campfire scene involving a bunch of hungry cowboys, heaping servings of baked beans and, well, you get the idea. --Jeff Shannon |
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| Product Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Region |
Region 1 |
| Screen Ratio |
Widescreen (1.85:1) |
| Layers |
Dual Side, Dual Layer |
| UPC (Barcode) |
012569100121 |
| Release Date |
2/3/2004 |
| Subtitles |
English; French; Spanish; English (Closed Captioned) |
| Packaging |
Snap Case |
| Audio Tracks |
Dolby Digital Stereo [English]
Dolby Digital Mono [French] |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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Extra Features
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| Color Closed-captioned Widescreen |
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