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Crafty railroad worker Bart becomes the first Black sheriff of Rock Ridge, a frontier town about to be destroyed in order to make way for a new railroad. Initially, the citizens of Rock Ridge harbor a racial bias toward their new protector. However, they warm to him after realizing that Bart and his perpetually drunk gunfighter friend Jim are their only defense against a wave of thugs sent to rid the town of its population.
1974 · Directed by Mel Brooks · 93 min · Western · Comedy · 18 frames
Tagline
...or never give a saga an even break!
Crew
- Screenplay: Richard Pryor, Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman
- Cinematography: Joseph F. Biroc
- Edited by: John C. Howard, Danford B. Greene
- Music: John Morris
- Production design: Peter Wooley
- Produced by: Michael Hertzberg
Cast
- Cleavon Little as Bart
- Gene Wilder as Jim
- Slim Pickens as Taggart
- Harvey Korman as Hedley Lamarr
- Madeline Kahn as Lili Von Shtupp
- Mel Brooks as William Le Petomane / Indian Chief
- Burton Gilliam as Lyle
- Alex Karras as Mongo
- David Huddleston as Olson Johnson
- Liam Dunn as Rev. Johnson
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, Yiddish, German
- Studios: Crossbow Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures
- Budget: $2,600,000
- Box office: $119,500,000
- Themes: governor, saloon, gun, musical, satire, parody, alcoholism, marching band, breaking the fourth wall, spoof
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