Overview - Blazing Saddles

Overview

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.

Cast

• Name: Cleavon Little

  Character: Bart

  Popularity: 1.2404

  

• Name: Gene Wilder

  Character: Jim

  Popularity: 1.4885

  

• Name: Slim Pickens

  Character: Taggart

  Popularity: 1.4716

  

• Name: Harvey Korman

  Character: Hedley Lamarr

  Popularity: 1.4141

  

• Name: Madeline Kahn

  Character: Lili Von Shtupp

  Popularity: 1.9883

  

• Name: Mel Brooks

  Character: William Le Petomane / Indian Chief

  Popularity: 2.2795

  

• Name: Burton Gilliam

  Character: Lyle

  Popularity: 1.1094

  

• Name: Alex Karras

  Character: Mongo

  Popularity: 0.874