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Blazing Saddles is a 1974 satirical Western comedy film directed by Mel Brooks.
Starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder, it was written by Brooks, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, and Al Uger.

The film exposes the racism obscured by myth-making Hollywood accounts of the American West, but in a highly satirical way; the racist slur "nigger" is heard 17 times in Blazing Saddles, while the film's hero is black.