Page One: ‘Blazing Saddles’ (1974)

Screenplay by Mel Brooks & Norman Steinberg & Andrew Bergman & Richard Pryor & Alan Uger, story by Andrew Bergman

Here is the movie version of the scene:

I remember seeing this movie when I was in college at the Paramount Theater in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia. The auditorium was thick with marijuana smoke and lots of boisterous laughter. A comedic tour de force.

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