the sheriff is in prison ( Blazing Saddles ) is an American film carried out by Mel Brooks, left in 1974.

Synopsis

L `history is held in L `Western American in 1874 (there is a great number D `anachronisms). The installation D `a railway line cannot lead because D `a moving sand zone. The route must be changed, with the result that the line would pass by Rock Ridge, a frontier town where all the inhabitants bear the same name, Johnson. The prosecutor D `state, intriguing it Hedley Lamarr - not to confuse, which often arrives in film, with L `actress Hedy Lamarr - wishes to at low prices repurchase the grounds planned for construction. To lead to it will try to drive out the inhabitants of their city. Thus, to frighten them, it sends a band of criminals to it directed by L `inept Taggart, which encourages the people of Ridge Rock'n'roll to require of the governor to assign a new sheriff to them. However the governor, released a little, lets himself persuade by Lamarr to choose for this function Bart, a afroaméricain and workman with the construction of the railroads. As Bart is black, Lamarr hopes that this choice will outragera the inhabitants of Ridge Rock'n'roll at such point qu `they will end either up giving up the city or by lynching their new sheriff. This last, thanks to its easy ways and with the assistance D `have trigger, alcoholic, Jim (known as under the name of Waco Kid, “J `had to kill more people as Cecil B. DeMille”) work to make disappear L `hostility in its connection. It overcomes (and becomes friendly with) Mongo, an immensely strong henchman sent by Taggart, and makes trap with its own play a German seductresses with pledges, Lili von Shtupp, before convincing its fellow-citizens to draw up an ambush against L `armed with sbirs of Lamarr. The decisive battle between the outlaws being used Lamarr and the inhabitants as Ridge Rock'n'roll jusqu `will break the fourth wall literally; she leaves the studio of Warner Bros and spreads on the film set D `a musical film, she spawning time a way in the cafeteria to degenerate into a battle of cakes and thereafter all leave in the streets. When they beat their enemy and saved the city, the sheriff and Waco Kid courrent to catch up with the end of film by inviting meanwhile white and coloured persons to living in harmony, for finally leaving towards the setting sun, not with horse but by limousine…

Data sheet

• original Title: Blazing Saddles
• Realization: Mel Brooks
• Scenario: Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Alan Uger, Richard Pryor.
• Music: John Morris
• Assembly: John Howard
• Country: the USA
• Kind: comedy
• Lasted: 92 minutes
• Left: 1974

Distribution

• Cleavon Little : Bart
• Gene Wilder: Jim
• Slim Pickens: Taggart
• David Huddleston: Olson Johnson
• Liam Dunn: the reverend Johnson
• Alex Karras: Mongo
• John Hillerman: Howard Johnson
• George Furth: Van Johnson
• Mel Brooks: the governor Lepetomane/le Indian chief

Around film

• the sheriff is in prison is the first film of the actor Patrick Labyorteaux, who held here the role not credited with Henry.

External bond

• the sheriff is in prison on Internet Movie Database

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