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Blazing Saddles, The Terminator, & North by Northwest 4K UHD Release Dates Announced

Blazing Saddles, The Terminator, and North by Northwest are all getting 4K Ultra HD releases. In honor of Blazing Saddles' 50th anniversary, North by Northwest's 65th anniversary, and The Terminator's ...
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I’m Still Obsessed with the Randolph Scott Reference in 'Blazing Saddles'

Mel Brooks' stone-cold classic Blazing Saddlesis one of the rare comedies that's lost little of its impact over the years. It uses the inherently backward-looking form of the western to lampoon the ...
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette

GREAT MOVIES | OPINION: ‘Blazing Saddles’ 50 years on: Shocking, truthful and funny

I was 15 and probably looked about 11 when "Blazing Saddles" was released in 1974, but my buddies and I had no trouble buying movie tickets. The kid at the counter was no cop, and the sweet lady ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Norman Steinberg, Screenwriter on ‘Blazing Saddles,’ ‘My Favorite Year’ and ‘Johnny Dangerously,’ Dies at 83

The Emmy winner penned jokes for Flip Wilson, Marlo Thomas and Luciano Pavarotti and worked often with Mel Brooks. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor While working as a writer on a 1972 CBS special, ...
Polygon

Netflix finally cares about old movies again

There was a time, more than a decade ago at this point, when Netflix was the greatest platform in the world for catching up on classic movies you always meant to see, or discovering something ...
CNN

Opinion: The right-wing misreading of ‘Blazing Saddles’ is so telling

“Blazing Saddles” is the kind of unreproducible film that doesn’t need a remake. But if it were remade, it almost certainly wouldn’t be the left who would object. Like most Brooks films, “Blazing ...