Silent Movie PG
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DVD Details
- Widescreen
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 27 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 5, 2006
- Originally Released: 1976
- Label: 20th Century Fox
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Mel Brooks, Marty Feldman & Dom DeLuise | |
Performer: | Liza Minnelli, Sid Caesar, James Caan, Burt Reynolds, Bernadette Peters, Marcel Marceau & Paul Newman | |
Directed by | Mel Brooks | |
Edited by | John C. Howard | |
Written by | Barry Levinson, Rudy De Luca, Ron Clark & Mel Brooks | |
Composition by | John Morris | |
Cinematography by | Paul Lohmann | |
Produced by | Michael Hertzberg |
Entertainment Reviews:
What disconcerts me about Mr Brooks is his obviousness, the lack of any true surprise in his gags.
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The Spectator
There are so many gags, so many hilarious moments, that halfway through the brisk ninety-minute film, the audience is tempted to cry uncle.
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Los Angeles Free Press
Rating: 4/5 --
Mel Brooks was THE comic master of the 70's
Nolan's Pop Culture Review
... fun from beginning to end... [Full review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Rating: C+ --
Silly strained comedy.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: B- --
Largely a success due to some very funny sight gags, but even at a brief 87 minutes, Brooks seems to be stretching things to feature-film length in the last half-hour.
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FulvueDrive-in.com
Rating: 2/5 --
Low end of Mel Brooks' films.
7M Pictures
Description by OLDIES.com:
Only Mel Brooks would tell his laugh-packed tale about a silent movie - as a silent movie - with one word of dialogue. Joining him in his outrageous, non-stop parade of sight gags are Marty Feldman, Dom Deluise, Sid Caesar, Harold Gould, Bernadette Peters, and Ron Carey. As the ruthless conglomerate Engulf and Devour targets a floundering movie studio, has-been director Mel Funn (Brooks) convinces the paranoid studio chief (Caesar) to make a star-studded silent picture. Aided by his sidekicks (DeLuise and Feldman), the devious Funn actually manages to sign some of the biggest names in Hollywood: Paul Newman, Liza Minnelli, Burt Reynolds, Anne Bancroft, and James Caan.
Product Description:
SILENT MOVIE is director Mel Brooks's comic tribute to the golden days of the silent screen. A movie within a movie, SILENT MOVIE stars Brooks as Mel Funn, a filmmaker who has seen better days--for one thing, he's just come out of a bout with the bottle. When his best friends (Marty Feldman and Dom DeLuise) rescue him from despair and convince him to make another attempt at moviemaking, Mel comes up with an idea--a silent picture. Alas, this is the 1970s, and in order to get backing from wacky, frazzled studio chief Sid Caesar, the three pals have to get lots of celebrities to agree to be in their silent picture. SILENT MOVIE is, in fact, silent, and all the celebrities play themselves (or parodies of themselves). Funny, warm, and packed with sight gags galore, the film evokes the days of Chaplin, Keaton, and Pickford and Fairbanks while remaining oddly, and wondrously, contemporary. There is hardly a funnier scene than when Burt Reynolds--vainly admiring himself in the mirror while showering--is talked-up about the movie by DeLuise, Brooks, and Feldman, all in the shower together.
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- Sales Rank: 125,596
- UPC: 024543167259
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