Video: 'Blazing Saddles' trailer

(Thursday, February 7, 1974, scheduled to start at 12 noon EST) — Blazing Saddles, an American satirical postmodernist Western black comedy film about a black sheriff who takes on a corrupt town boss and a sultry saloon singer, opened today at the Sutton Theater at 205 E. 57th Street in Manhattan.

Video: 'Blazing Saddles (1974) - Movie' (10 clips)

Ranked number six on the American Film Institute’s 100 Years…100 Laughs list, the film was directed by Mel Brooks and starred Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Alex Karras, Brooks, Harvey Korman and Madeline Kahn.