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3 unusual facts about Blazing Saddles


All-Con

Guests included Battlestar Galactica actor Aaron Douglas, Return of the Jedi actors Tim Dry, Sean Crawford, and Mike Edmonds, plus Blazing Saddles actor Burton Gilliam and Who Wants to be a Superhero? contestant Tonya Kay (aka Creature).

Carry On Cowboy

The IMDb movie database notes the marked similarity between this movie and the later Mel Brooks Western spoof Blazing Saddles (1974).

Rock Ridge

The standard takes its name from the fictional town Rock Ridge in Mel Brooks' film Blazing Saddles.


Got the Life

In a 2013 interview with Scuzz, Jonathan Davis revealed that "Got The Life" originally contained an audio sample at the very beginning - a piece of dialogue spoken by actor Dom DeLuise in the 1974 film Blazing Saddles.

Paul Stader

After his acting roles ended, Stader continued performing stunts into the 1980s, having worked on such other films as Repossessed, Demetrius and the Gladiators, Giant, Our Man Flint, Tobruk, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Blazing Saddles, The Great Waldo Pepper, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, and a 1985 television movie of Alice in Wonderland.

The Silence of the Hams

As a curiosity, there is a Mel Brooks cameo in this film, who made a number of well regarded parodies (Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Spaceballs).


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