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Patrick Walsh
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posted December 05, 2008 06:00 PM

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Columbias 400fter of the Mel Brooks epic BLAZING SADDLES is a great little digest.
Has all the funny gags including the farting around the campfire scene and the one where someone sets up a toll booth in the middle of the desert causing the bad guys to be delayed as no one has any money on them to open the toll!
Print quality is ok as it is a bit on the soft side and the audio level goes up and down during the film.
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Osi Osgood
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posted December 06, 2008 10:03 AM

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Patrick ...

Does it have "Mongo" punching and knocking out the horse?

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posted December 06, 2008 06:05 PM

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It sure does!
Also has that classic shot of one of the townspeople being towed away on the grownd by one of the bay guy's horses, and all he says is "well thats this suit ruined"

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Osi Osgood
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posted December 06, 2008 07:38 PM

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Hey!

Does it have that whole section (or a part of it) with Sheriff
Bart and his capture of Mongo?

" Mongo like candy! "

BOOM!

Last question. Should have remembered that on the first time through.

It's a real toss-up between this one and Young Frankenstein as to which one was better. The cool, thing is that Mel Brooks made his two best films in the very same year!

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posted December 06, 2008 08:07 PM

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I can hear that inane Columbia narrator now --

"After consuming a lot of beans, suddenly farting filled the air."

Seriously, does the BLAZING SADDLES digest have the infamous narrator? He's ruined plenty a good digest (and that's why I stay away from Columbia digests).

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Patrick Walsh
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posted December 06, 2008 08:12 PM

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Yes the narrarator does appear when Hedley Lamar is discussing about finding a sheffif that would "offend" the peoples of Rockridge so much that they would leave the town.
yes it has the telegram for Mongo scene.

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posted December 07, 2008 12:54 PM

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You can say "farting" on this forum? Good to know.

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Osi Osgood
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posted December 07, 2008 01:08 PM

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I always liked that word, "farting", it's fun to play with it with women. For instance, the word "farding" means, to apply make-up, so when I talk to women about being fed up with women farding behind the wheel of car while driving, at firat I get dirty looks, until I explain what the definition of the word is, and then they laugh.

This Blazing Saddles would have made a great 2X400ft edition, there's more than enough comedy to fill two reels!

Heck, a whole feature of this "bad taste" classic!

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Tony Stucchio
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posted December 09, 2008 08:36 PM

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Columbia released this? It was a Warner Brothers movie.

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posted December 10, 2008 09:45 AM

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In German the word "fährte" means "way", or "path" or "trip".

-and exits and entrances on the Autobahns are "ausfährte"s and "einfährte"s.

When we drive in a new place my wife operates the maps and I drive the car. I just loved asking "Should we 'fährte' here?" when we were in Germany.

The Farsi word for snow is "barf", by the way.
-Must be big yucks in Iran in the wintertime....

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posted December 10, 2008 12:02 PM

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I did have this cut down once and although well edited, i found it to be just one of those few films where 400 foot is simply not enough to enjoy and passed it back as unwanted. A classic Mel Brooks comedy which i dont think will ever date. [Wink]

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posted December 10, 2008 12:25 PM

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Tony,

Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment distributed Warner Bros. 8mm releases. The clamshell cases are exactly the same as Columbia's except for the Warner's logo.

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James N. Savage 3
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posted December 10, 2008 01:41 PM

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A very excellent digest. Thanks for the review Patrick!

You mentioned about the sound being high and low. That was also the case with the 400 foot release of "The Exorcist", which, I believe, was released at the same time as the "Blazing Saddles" digest. Both were from Columbia Super 8, so, I think it must have been a short-lived problem, maybe just that year. I think it was around 1978 or 1979.

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Patrick Walsh
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posted December 11, 2008 12:01 AM

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My copy 400ft of MIDNIGHT EXPRESS has sound problems as well.
A bit of a shame as in SADDLES it is all when there is dialoge.
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Tony Stucchio
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posted December 11, 2008 07:48 PM

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quote:
Tony,

Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment distributed Warner Bros. 8mm releases. The clamshell cases are exactly the same as Columbia's except for the Warner's logo.

Doug

Thanks, Doug -- I did not know that.

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