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A madcap spoof of the classic Hollywood Western BLAZING SADDLES is also one of the most gleefully anti-P.C. films ever produced by a major studio. When the sheriff of a small frontier town is killed convict Bart Cleavon Little is appointed the first black sheriff of all-white Rock Ridge by the evil Hedley Lamarr Harvey Korman who hopes this will chase the townspeople from their homes. The naive Sheriff Bart soon catches on realizing from the less than cheery welcome that the townspeople who all seem to be named Johnson aren't prepared for a black sheriff and that he was never meant to succeed at all. Enlisting the help of the sensitive town drunk Gene Wilder formerly the Waco Kid Bart embarks on a plan to save Rock Ridge. A scathing spoof that deals with racism sexism and bodily functions BLAZING SADDLES offers a contrast between picture and words that is shocking subversive and hilarious. Director Mel Brooks makes two memorable appearances--as both the sleazy governor and a Yiddish-speaking Sioux Indian chie

A western spoof about an easygoing gunslinger and the legendary shooter he idolizes who wants to hang up his gun for good. Produced by Sergio Leone.

OscarÂ(r)-winning* director Sydney Pollack delivers a "rousing good show" (The Film Daily) with this fast-paced western full of "irresistible humor" and "delightful ironies" (MotionPicture Herald). Starring OscarÂ(r) winners** Burt Lancaster and Shelley Winters along with Telly Savalas and Ossie Davis, The Scalphunters is "a lively, ribald and unpredictable pleasure which carries the western into new country" (Los Angeles Times)! When trapper Joe Bass (Lancaster) is bushwhacked by Indians who steal his fursand leave him a runaway slave (Davis) in exchangehe's determined to get his property back. But when the Indians are attacked byoutlaws, Joe and his unwanted companion must join forces to retrieve the furs in a startling, action-packed journey of self-discovery that concludes with one of the "all-time cinematic comeuppances" (Citizen-News)!

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In Robert Aldrich's hysterical comedic Western THE FRISCO KID a sweetly innocent Polish rabbi Avram Belinsky Gene Wilder travels through 1850s America toward his new congregation and wife in San Francisco. Along the way he forms an uneasy alliance with an inept bank robber Tommy Harrison Ford. As Avram teaches Tommy about the Torah Tommy instructs Avram on how to handle a gun and the two cut a meandering pratfall-filled path across the wild West encountering Indians settlers and merciless outlaws. Aldrich TOO LATE THE HERO WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? a master of the penetrating psychodrama the rousing war saga and the icy violent noir here slips the standard Western concoction a dizzying hilarious mickey of slapstick humor with his two feckless protagonists played with gusto and perfect timing by Wilder and Ford.

Although SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL GUNFIGHTER features the same director and many of the same cast members as SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF the film isn't a sequel to the latter movie. Instead it's another delightful collaboration between director Burt Kennedy and leading man James Garner. This time around Garner plays Latigo Smith a wandering con man who arrives in the town of Purgatory. When two competing mine owners mistake him for a hired gunman Latigo sees a chance to get his hands on some of their ill-gotten gains. Trouble arises however when the real gunslinger comes to town.

A comedy-western about a card shark and a dance-hall girl who undertake an adventurous journey from San Francisco to Salt Lake City.

A SINGING COWBOY ROAMS THE WILD WEST WITH HIS SIDEKICK, DANCING HORSE AND FANCY WARDROBE.

An action-comedy with a decidedly Western twist SHANGHAI NOON features more acrobatics from superstar Jackie Chan. Chon Wang Chan is a dedicated member of the Chinese Imperial Guard. When the emperor's former captain Lo Fong Yuan oversees an illegal operation that involves kidnapping Princess Pei Pei Liu and bringing her to America's wild West it's up to Chong to save the day. Eventually partnering with the wise-cracking bandit Roy O'Bannon Wilson Chong uses his Eastern skills to tackle the wild West. SHANGHAI NOON is an high-kicking adventure with great comic chemistry between stars Chan and Wilson.

This Disney Western has roving bachelor Bill Bixby getting saddled with three children and a wealth of trouble when the youngsters stumble upon a huge gold nugget. They join forces with two bumbling outlaws--Don Knotts and Tim Conway of course--to fend off the greedy townspeople and are soon facing a surly gang of sharpshooters.