Original Blazing Saddles Movie Posters

Blazing Saddles movie posters — Blazing Saddles (1974) — Mel Brooks's Western parody starring Cleavon Little as the Black sheriff of Rock Ridge, Gene Wilder, Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn, and Brooks himself — remains the most relentlessly transgressive comedy ever produced by a major Hollywood studio and generated advertising materials that had to sell its provocations to a mainstream audience. Purchase original Blazing Saddles one-sheets and you're acquiring materials for a film that permanently changed the boundaries of what Hollywood comedy could address. The original campaign had to navigate the film's explicit racial politics while selling it as broad entertainment — a challenge the designers met with imagery that emphasized Cleavon Little's movie-star presence and the film's western parody elements. Original theatrical materials from 1974 are now genuinely collected. The Gene Wilder connection makes this collection resonate with another major Mel Brooks film of the same year — Young Frankenstein (1974) — and collectors who pursue one often pursue the other. International variants for Blazing Saddles are particularly interesting in reflecting different national responses to its racial comedy: the European campaigns tend to foreground the genre parody elements rather than the film's more culturally specific provocations. Lobby card sets from the original release document the film's ensemble with the full Warner Bros. studio quality of the period, and are among the more complete visual records of Brooks's cast at its peak. Browse alongside our Animal House and Adventure collections. All Film/Art Gallery movie posters and items are authenticated originals.