"Racial prejudice is the engine that really drives the film," the director says. Mel Brooks says Richard Pryor "spurred on" Blazing Saddles' use of the N-word. The filmmaker adds that "racial ...

In 1974, Mel Brooks’ Western comedy “Blazing Saddles” shook up the game, sending up themes of racism that were pervasive in Hollywood, the Western genre and American culture as a whole. Now, “Paws of ...