Blazing Saddles/Blue Collar Comedy [2 Discs]

DVD FEATURES:

• Region: 1
• Number of Discs: 2
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 (Cinemascope), 1.33:1 (Pre-1954 Standard)
• Audio: Dolby Digital Mono, Dolby Digital 5.1
• Screen: Color, Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV, Pan and Scan
• Subtitle: Spanish, French, English
• Features:
  • cc
  • Blazing Saddles: All-new 30th-anniversary digital transfer
  • Blazing Saddles: Scene-specific commentary by Mel Brooks
  • Blazing Saddles: 2 blazingly boffo documentaries - Back in the Saddle, Intimate Portrait: Madeline Kahn (excerpt)
  • Blazing Saddles: Black Bart - 1975 pilot episode of the proposed TV series spinoff
  • Blazing Saddles: Additional scenes
  • Blazing Saddles: Theatrical trailer

AWARDS

• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

•     Nominated Best Editing - 1974 (John C. Howard, Danford B. Greene)
•     Nominated Best Song - 1974 (Mel Brooks, John Morris)
•     Nominated Best Supporting Actress - 1974 (Madeline Kahn)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Director:

  Mel Brooks, C.B. Harding

• Producer:

  Michael Hertzberg, Peter W. Wooley, Alan C. Blomquist, Casey La Scala, J.P. Williams

• Screen Story:

  Andrew Bergman

• Screenwriter:

  Andrew Bergman, Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, Alan Uger

• Cinematographer:

  Joseph Biroc, Bruce Finn

• Songwriter:

  Mel Brooks

• Composer (Music Score):

  John Morris

• Songwriter:

  John Morris

• Composer (Music Score):

  James S. Levine

• Editor:

  John C. Howard, Danford B. Greene, Andrew Horvitch, C. Timothy O'Meara, Tony Hayman

• Production Designer:

  Peter W. Wooley, Jeff Hall

• Art Director:

  Michael Marlowe

• Associate Producer:

  Eyal Axelrod, Maggie Houlehan

• Executive Producer:

  E.K. Gaylord II

• Set Designer:

  Morrie Hoffman

• Costume Designer:

  Thomas S. Dawson, Vittorio Nino Novarese

• Sound/Sound Designer:

  Gene S. Cantamessa, Evan Adelman

• Makeup:

  Terry Miles

• First Assistant Director:

  Alan Uger

• Choreography:

  Alan Johnson

• Musical Performer:

  Frankie Laine

• Supervising Sound Editor:

  Dave Eichhorn

REVIEW:

• Mel Brooks at his ribald, tasteless best, Blazing Saddles stands out as one of the all-time great film spoofs. Sparing no one from his outrageous brand of humor, Brooks proved he was an egalitarian when it came to making fun of people, regardless of skin color or religious persuasion: where blacks may come off as stereotypical, whites are seen as just plain stupid and ignorant. Beyond its over-the-top humor and genre revision of the Western, Blazing Saddles boasts some great performances, with Madeline Kahn, Gene Wilder, and Slim Pickens doing some of the best work of their careers. It also features a number of scenes that have elevated the film into the realm of the comedy classic, perhaps most infamously the one involving beans, a campfire, and the most gratuitous display of flatulence ever to cloud a movie screen. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi