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The film satirizes the racism obscured by myth-making Hollywood accounts of the American West, with the hero being a black sheriff in an all-white town.

The film is full of deliberate anachronisms, from the Count Basie Orchestra playing " April in Paris " in the Wild West, to Slim Pickens referring to the Wide World of Sports, to the German Heer of WWII.