" The newest Umbridge proclamation was: the disbanding of all student organizations (any one in non-compliance would be expelled).BackgroundWritten on the Wind(1956) is generally regarded as the best of director Douglas Sirk""s 1950s lush, vibrantly colorful melodramatic masterpieces.Plot SynopsisThe absurd, tactless film opens, under the credits, with the Oscar-nominated title songBlazing Saddles(accompanied by cracking whips) sung by Frankie Laine, parodying and satirizing his own classic western tune - "Mule Train":CHORUS:He rode a blazing saddleHe wore a shining starHis job to offer battleTo bad men near and farHe conquered fear and he conquered hateHe turned our night into dayHe made his blazing saddleA torch to light the wayWhen outlaws rule the WestAnd fear fills the landA cry went up for a man with gutsTo take the West in handThey needed a man who was brave and trueWith justice for all as his aimThen out of the sun rode a man with a gunAnd Bart was his name, yes Bart was his nameThe film opens in the West of 1874 [100 years before he film was made] with the memorable scene of a black and coolie rail gang laying down track in the heat.A swing-away marble shelf or platform positioned across the marble sides of the ub holds his typewriter and hides his nudity." While horoughly inspecting the duplex, the Wienie King wanders up the curving staircase to the bedroom upstairs.