It's been decades since I've seen Blazing Saddles.

I belong to one of those mail-order DVD rental places and it's on my list to see.

That movie is damm funny...i will never forget how bloody funny it is!

The 'Toll Booth' scene:

Here's one I liked as a kid. It's not available anymore. See if anyone remembers this:

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Edith Grove Wrote:
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> It's been decades since I've seen Blazing
> Saddles.
>
> I belong to one of those mail-order DVD rental
> places and it's on my list to see.

The late great Cleavon Little -- "Let me go or the n***** gets it!" Oh, the days before political correctness reared its ugly head.

Dont know that one...thanks sure gonna check it out!

Who was the guy that punched out the horse? Wasn't that Mel Brooks?

Yeah that was Mel...it sure wasnt Dolly Parton!!

Dolly Parton has a reach longer than her arms!

Edith Grove Wrote:
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> Who was the guy that punched out the horse? Wasn't
> that Mel Brooks?


Here's the clip:



I don't think it's Mel, since he is the one wearing that purple shirt running

We had it All!! Good night!

Sohoe Wrote:
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> Edith Grove Wrote:
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> > Who was the guy that punched out the horse?
> Wasn't
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> I don't think it's Mel, since he is the one
> wearing that purple shirt running

No, that was former Detroit Lions' defensive tackle Alex Karras. He later starred as the dad on the TV series "Webster".



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Thanks bassplayer617

I seem to recall that Allen Klein financed Alejandro Jodorowski's western cult classic 'El Topo'

Worth seeing



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Don't forget "Open Range" with Kevin Costner (about 3 years ago) A Western Masterpiece!

How about Little Big Man based on the great novel of the same name. 1970 release.

About a small white guy who goes back and forth living between the Cheyennes and the whites and is a part of several well known battles in history such as the Washita (where Custer defeated/slaughtered a village of unsuspecting Cheyennes) and the Little Big Horn where they and the Lakota returned the favour.

A good part of Little Big Man was filmed right here on the Crow Indian reservation in Montana and nearby. I know Crow Indians who were in the movie here as extras or who even had bigger roles.

Dustin Hoffman in the title role, Faye Dunaway (what has become of her?).

One of the first pro-Indian movies, really a Vietnam/60s protest film which went overboard in its negative but hilarious portrayal of Custer.

Plexi

Jeremiah Johnson is another good western from that same time period. Early seventees I think. Robert Redford plays the main character.



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I love the old Clint Eastwood movies. "The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly", "The Outlaw Josie Wales", "A Fist Full of Dollars"........some of the best ever.

I like a few of John Wayne's movies but I think so many of his movies are the same. I like the Duke in westerns where he plays a character that's a little different than the typical John Wayne character. "True Grit" is good.

Nobody could be cooler than Kirk Douglas in Last Train From Gun Hill and Gunfight at OK Corral - 2 movies that can't be matched
I don't think we'll ever get to see another good western movie - I dislike all of the ones made after the early 70s, nobody have that western spirit anymore, and one can't fake that feeling while in front of a camera

One day when brain dead from a BIG weekend watched
James Garner in Support Ya Local Sherrif....Laughed the hang-over away...

That Walter Brennan and his bad-arse sons were crazy...!!!
The scene where there's no wall in the cell and the sherrif
draws a chalk-line and tells 'em not to cross it is way out funny ...



ROCKMAN

Shoot Ya Baby Down...



ROCKMAN

Hey roooster
What's about Johnny Lee Hooker - I'm Bad Like Jesse James.....
And Hey SomeTorontoGirl...looks like he digs the shrimps too...



Lookin' Bad - Little Sonny Willis & John Lee Hooker Detroit 1959 - Jacques Demetre



ROCKMAN

One more for ya rooster.....





ROCKMAN

Groan. Wasn't Walter Brennan the actor that the bar owner had the hots for in Good Morning Vietnam? I'm having a bizarre flashback to Robin Williams being asked to introduce this flakey guy to Walter Brennan...

What about Butch and Sundance, guys? Gotta love Newman and Redford. And anything with James Garner in it - including Victor/Victoria (and to link that back to Westerns, didn't Alex Karras play James Garner's gay bodyguard in V/V? Stuck on the balcony in the snow?)

Was a bit young for the TV westerns (Bonanza, Gunsmoke, etc) but Blazing Saddles was definitely a coming-of-age movie. Madeline Kahn... she could milk a role! Now that The Producers is such a hit, Mel Brooks is looking at making Young Frankenstein into a play - how would you stage Blazing Saddles?

Love the picture of Bo - anybody know how he is doing after his stroke?

The TVland channel has Gunsmoke and Bonanza on quite often but I guess those shows are not for everybody. I can't picture my sister watching Bonanza for any length of time- those shows tend to be geared towards a male audience.

Then again female viewers may tune in to see little Joe Cartwright I guess. I guess he was to female viewers what Cheryl Ladd was to us guys back in the seventees.

Walter Brennan....

Walter was also in that late 50's TV show The Real McCoys



ROCKMAN

Sohoe Wrote:
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> I seem to recall that Allen Klein financed
> Alejandro Jodorowski's western cult classic 'El
> Topo'
>
> Worth seeing

Hey hey! You & I seem to be clones of the same UFO-experiment ...

Rooster!!! I woke up this morning and smacked my head (smack!), how could I have forgotten this! You're from Holland - these are Dutch Cowboys!!!!





(Actually, they are a Canuck comedy gang called the Frantics - big in the early '80s and recently reunited. Great in small clubs, when you can sit with your feet on the stage, but this was taped for a TV special.)

Canadian cowboys now commute by train...



The hooting in the background is partly me - was at both tapings!

Regretably, nothing about mice!

STG

Baboon Bro Wrote:
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> Sohoe Wrote:
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> > I seem to recall that Allen Klein financed
> > Alejandro Jodorowski's western cult classic 'El
> > Topo'
> >
> > Worth seeing
>
> Hey hey! You & I seem to be clones of the same
> UFO-experiment ...

Yeah it's kind of spooky isn't it?

Anyway remember seeing this movie as a part of a local film festival. I didn't know anything about that Jodorowski fella or his movies, and I wouldn't say I did fully grasp it, but it was something out of the ordinary.

Richard Pryor isn't in Blazing Saddles, but Gene Wilder is.

"No Anchovies, Please"