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Interrupted Hanging | Gun
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Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen | 1975 | Alan
Motion Picture | 2016
Best Film Editing | 1975 | Danford B.
Best Music Original Song | 1975 | Mel
Best Actress in a Supporting Role | 1975 | Madeline
Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles | 1975 | Cleavon
Best Screenplay | 1975 | Alan
Favorite Movie | 1975
Budget 2,600,000 USD
Box Office Collection 119,500,000 USD
(at around 45 mins) Cleavon Little was not warned about the "you know. . . . morons" line. His reaction was real.
Mel Brooks never told Frankie Laine that the theme song "Blazing Saddles" was for a comedy. Laine thought it was a dramatic western. Brooks was worried that Laine wouldn't sing it with conviction if he knew the truth.
When the film was first screened for Warner Brothers executives, almost none of them laughed, and the movie looked to be a disaster that the studio would not release. However, Mel Brooks quickly set up a subsequent screening for the studio's employees. When these regular folks laughed uproariously throughout the movie, Warner Brothers finally agreed to take a chance on releasing it.
Hedy Lamarr sued Mel Brooks over the use of the name Hedley Lamarr and settled out of court. Brooks said he was flattered by this attention. The reference to suing Hedy Lamarr was from Harvey Korman's first day on the set and, ironically, made a comedic reference to what was at that point a non-existent lawsuit.
The scene in which Cleavon Little aims his gun at his own head to save himself from the townspeople's wrath was based on an incident from Mel Brooks' childhood. He said that once, to his disbelief, he stole some gum and a water pistol from a drugstore; when a store worker tried to stop him, Brooks held the worker at bay with the very water pistol he had just taken from the store.
"[Bart returns unexpectedly after being sentenced to death] Charlie: They said you was hung. Bart: And they was right."
"[to two members of the KKK, while pretending to capture Bart] Jim: Oh, boys! Lookee what I got heyuh. Bart: Hey, where are the white women at?"
