Blazing Saddles / History of the World Part I

BLAZING SADDLES, 1974, Warner Bros., 93 min. Director Mel Brooks’ third film as director took his politically-incorrect humor (with a screenplay co-written by Richard Pryor) to new levels of profane hilarity. A corrupt politician appoints a black sheriff to cause havoc in a western town, but is surprised when new lawman, Bart (Cleavon Little) becomes a force to be reckoned with. With Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn.

HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART I, 1981, 20th Century Fox, 92 min. Mel Brooks is at his most inventive in this collection of sketches that provides a comedic survey of man's past, including the Inquisition and the stone age. Orson Welles narrates this parody of sweeping Hollywood epics. With Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman, Sid Caesar.