Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credits: Warner Bros. If you love satirical black comedies trying to reclaim narratives, Blazing Saddles (1974) is a great ...

Fifty years ago, actor and director Mel Brooks released what many consider to be one of the greatest films in American cinema, “Blazing Saddles,” a movie that highlighted the struggles of the American ...

With "The End" emblazoned across the big screen, the lights went up. Motion pictures had returned to Easton's State Theatre, at least for a night. But the packed house remained seated for the second ...

Mel Brooks recently recalled how he came to cast Gene Wilder as the Waco Kid at a 50th anniversary screening of 'Blazing Saddles' in Los Angeles Luke Chinman is a writer at PEOPLE. He joined PEOPLE in ...

Many people consider Mel Brooks’s ‘Blazing Saddles’ to be one of the greatest comedies of all-time—and with very good reason. The resulting fart scene, in which a gang of thugs pass gas around a ...

Mel Brooks' satirical Western Blazing Saddles got mixed reviews when it opened in February 1974, but it became the year's biggest box office hit. Above, Cleavon Little, left, as Sheriff Bart and Gene ...

Classic films now face the wrath of perpetually enraged social justice warriors. Last weekend’s "Watters World" on Fox News Channel analyzed the impact of this politically correct phenomenon. Exhibit ...