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 ...

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 ...

This year's 15th annual TCM Film Festival will celebrate EGOT winner Mel Brooks, specifically highlighting his trailblazing parody, Spaceballs. The writer, director, producer, actor, and playwright is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 1974 Western satirical masterpiece Blazing Saddles, directed by the legendary Mel Brooks, not only pushed the boundaries of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Let's look back at Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles as the comedy icon celebrates his 98th birthday this month. The film, released 50 ...

Mel Brooks as Blazing Saddles’ Gov. William J. Le Petomane and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott: the resemblance is uncanny. Credit: Left: © 1974 – Warner Bros.; Right ...

This Houston Chronicle review was originally published on March 15, 1974. The easiest way to deal with Mel Brooks' new film "Blazing Saddles" (at the Greenway Plaza, Northwest, Town & Country and ...

(JTA) — The phrase “that movie could never be made today” has probably been said more about “Blazing Saddles” than any other movie in history. Mel Brooks’ spoof of Hollywood Westerns is full of the ...

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 ...

Writer and director Mel Brooks’ 1974 Western spoof “Blazing Saddles” tackled racism so head-on that Brooks recently mused he wouldn’t be able to make the film today. Maybe, just maybe, he has done ...