Silent Movie (1976)
Made In Hollywood. U.S.A.
Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell go to a financially troubled studio with an idea for a silent movie. In an effort to make the movie more marketable, they attempt to recruit a number of big name stars to appear, while the studio's creditors attempt to thwart them.
- Date of release
- 1976-06-17
- TMDB
- 6.5 / 10 (361)
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Mel Brooks
Casting
- Mel Brooks — Mel Funn
- Marty Feldman — Marty Eggs
- Dom DeLuise — Dom Bell
- Sid Caesar — Studio Chief
- Harold Gould — Engulf
- Ron Carey — Devour
- Bernadette Peters — Vilma Kaplan
- Carol Arthur — Pregnant Lady
- Liam Dunn — Newsvendor
- Fritz Feld — Maitre d'
- Chuck McCann — Studio Gate Guard
- Valerie Curtin — Intensive Care Nurse
Interesting facts
- Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
Silent Movie is a 1976 American satirical silent comedy film co-written, directed by and starring Mel Brooks, released by 20th Century Fox in summer 1976. The ensemble cast includes Dom DeLuise, Marty Feldman, Bernadette Peters and Sid Caesar, with cameos by Anne Bancroft, Liza Minnelli, Burt Reynolds, James Caan, Marcel Marceau and Paul Newman as themselves, and character cameos by Harry Ritz of the Ritz Brothers, Charlie Callas and Henny Youngman. The film was produced in the manner of an early-20th-century silent film, with intertitles instead of spoken dialogue; the soundtrack consists almost entirely of orchestral accompaniment and sound effects.
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