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Gateway to Cinema: Blazing Saddles

Where: Metro Cinema

When: November 21, 7:00pm

Tickets: Free for students with valid ID, $5 for everyone else.

Gateway to Cinema is starting once again! This time around we’re featuring Mel Brooks’ comedic western Blazing Saddles.

Vulgar, crude, and occasionally scandalous in its racial humor, this hilarious bad-taste spoof of Westerns, co-written by Richard Pryor, features Cleavon Little as the first black sheriff of a stunned town scheduled for demolition by an encroaching railroad. Little and co-star Gene Wilder (R.I.P.) have great chemistry, and the delightful supporting cast includes Harvey Korman, Slim Pickens, and Madeline Kahn as a chanteuse modelled on Marlene Dietrich. Some of this film’s sequences, notably a gaseous bean dinner around a campfire, have become comedy classics.

Want to come? RSVP to our Facebook event and we’ll see you there!

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