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50 years ago, 'Blazing Saddles' broke wind — and box office expectations

50 years ago, 'Blazing Saddles' broke wind — and box office expectations

50 years ago, 'Blazing Saddles' broke wind — and box office expectations

50 years ago, 'Blazing Saddles' broke wind — and box office expectations

Mel Brooks' satirical Western got mixed reviews when it opened in February 1974, but it became the year's biggest box office hit.

Blazing Saddles remains a roaring success 50 years on

It was 50 years ago, but I can still remember the roar. The roar of loud, uncontrollable laugher which ran across the audience. It started with a few chuckles and then the sort and scale of laughter I have never heard before or since in a cinema. A roar that was still going on a few minutes into the next scene.