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Blazing Saddles (1974): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
Blazing Saddles is a 1974 western, comedy film directed by Mel Brooks. It scores 7.7 on IMDb, 89% on Rotten Tomatoes, 73 on Metacritic, 7.2 on TMDB. Audiences and critics largely agree: IMDb users and Metacritic critics are within 4 points of each other once scaled to 100. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 6 of 78 films from 1974 in our catalog and number 126 of 3,051 comedy films.
Billed cast: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn, Mel Brooks.
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More from Mel Brooks
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