Politically incorrect and relentlessly funny, Mel Brooks’s take on Hollywood Westerns follows the tortured trail of freed slave Bart, who’s elected sheriff of the racist town of Rock Ridge. He must foil a land-grabbing governor (Brooks) with help from a washed-up, pot-smoking gunslinger (Gene Wilder).
This might just be the best Mel Brooks satire. It features
a black cowboy teamed up with Gene Wilder. There are Jewish
indians (Mel Brooks himself), and Madeline Kahn as a tired protitute.
Probably not for children.