The 1974 movie directed by Mel Brooks stars Cleavon Little as Bart, an African-American man who becomes sheriff of a small town in the West, unaware that the villainous attorney general of the state (Harvey Korman) planned for him to take the job in the hopes that the choice would offend the population and make them leave or lynch him. Bart teams up with the man known as the Waco Kid (Gene Wilder) to try to win over the town.
In the Old West town, everyone has the last name of Johnson, and careful listeners will hear that two are named Howard Johnson and Dr. Samuel Johnson, respectively.
wrote in his review of the film, "[It] does everything to keep us laughing except hit us over the head with a rubber chicken... It doesn't have a lot of classy polish and its structure is a total mess. But of course!"
