CRAIG CHARLES GARRISON

Good Friday Morning!!!

☆ BlazingSaddles – 1974

▪︎ Directed by Mel Brooks
▪︎ Screenplay by Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, and others…
▪︎ Story by Andrew Bergman
▪︎ Produced by Michael Hertzberg
▪︎ Music by John Morris
▪︎ Filmed at locations in/ around Hollywood, CA

CAST:

* Cleavon Little as railroad worker-turned-Rock Ridge (RR) Sheriff Bart
* Gene Wilder as gunslinger Jim the Waco Kid
* Harvey Korman as territorial Attorney General Hedley Lamarr
* Slim Pickens as AG Hedley Lamarr’s enforcer Taggart
* Madeline Kahn as German seductress Lili Von Shtupp
* David Huddleston as prominent RR resident Olson Johnson
* Liam Dunn as RR pastor Rev. Johnson
* Alex Karras as superstrong, zebu-riding, Taggart soldier Mongo
* John Hillerman as RR ice cream parlor owner Howard Johnson
* George Furth as RR barber Van Johnson
* Claude Ennis Starrett Jr. a.k.a. Jack Garrett as RR town drunk Gabby Johnson
* Carol Arthur as RR schoolteacher Harriet Johnson
* Count Basie as himself w/ his Count Basie Orchestra
* Robyn Hilton as RR Gov. Le Petomane’s secretary Miss Stein
* Mel Brooks as:
*** RR territorial Gov. William J. Le Petomane (unspecified territory)
*** Yiddish-speaking  Native American chief
*** male seeking to work as an Aviator for territorial AG H. Lamarr

Have YOU watched BlazingSaddlesMovie? What was your experience?

Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler, Y’all!!!

– CCG