- Status: Completed
- Score: 7.7/10
- Director: Mel Brooks
- Country: EnglishYiddishGerman
- Year: 1974
- Duration: 93 min
- Genres: Comedy,Western,
- Production:
In order to ruin a western town, a corrupt politician appoints a black Sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.
The Ultimate Western Spoof. A town where everyone seems to be named Johnson is in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, Hedley Lemar (Harvey Korman), a politically connected nasty person, sends in his henchmen to make the town unlivable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor (Mel Brooks). Hedley convinces him to send the town the first Black sheriff (Cleavon Little) in the west. Bart is a sophisticated urbanite who will have some difficulty winning over the townspeople.
Cleavon Little, Slim Pickens, Madeline Kahn, Burton Gilliam, David Huddleston, John Hillerman, Jack Starrett, Richard Collier, Gene Wilder, Harvey Korman, Mel Brooks, Alex Karras, Liam Dunn, George Furth, Carol Arthur,
