- Critics' Rating:
-
- Release Year:
- 1974
- MPAA Rating:
- R
- Genre:
- Comedy, Western
- Director:
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Mel Brooks
In this satirical take on Westerns, crafty railroad worker Bart becomes the first black sheriff of Rock Ridge, a frontier town about to be destroyed in order to make way for a new railroad. Initially, the people of Rock Ridge harbor a racial bias toward their new leader. However, they warm to him after realizing that Bart and his perpetually drunk gunfighter friend are the only defense against a wave of thugs sent to rid the town of its population.
