Join us at the Rio Theatre for an evening dedicated to celebrating one of the most profoundly loved, adored, and respected comedic actors of our time: The late, great, Gene Wilder.

Wilder was an uncannily soulful performer whose ability to say everything - while saying absolutely nothing at all - was simply without equal. We have chosen to toast him and his fantastic career with a double bill featuring two of our favourite films from his remarkable collaborative relationship with writer-director Mel Brooks; THE PRODUCERS and BLAZING SADDLES.

Brooks and Wilder would work together several times, including the 1974 Western spoof BLAZING SADDLES, a daring, provocative, gleefully vulgar (not to mention laugh-out-loud hilarious!) lampoon of one of Hollywood's favourite genres. Co-written by Richard Pryor (who Wilder would go on to work with again), BLAZING SADDLES was considered quite audacious for its use of racial humour to tell the story of a corrupt political boss who appoints a black sheriff (Cleavon Little) to "ruin" a tiny Old West town; instead, he becomes a formidable adversary. Also starring Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn, and Mel Brooks.

BLAZING SADDLES
Doors 8:30 pm | Movie 9:00 pm

Single film ticket $10 advance | $12 door

*Minors OK in the balcony! Must be 19+ w/ID for bar service.
**Groupons and passes OK for any single film. Please redeem at the door.

BLAZING SADDLES (Mel Brooks, 1974 / 93 mins / PG) 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, 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. Hedley convinces him to send the town the first Black sheriff in the west.