Silent Movie (1976)

Directed by

Mel Brooks

Genre

comedy film, silent film, parody film, satirical film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 26m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 346 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A film producer in the 1970s tries to get a major studio to back his idea for a new silent movie. He rounds up a cast of celebrity friends to help him sell the project.

sillyabsurdlightheartedwhimsicalplayfulaffectionateold-fashionedcomical

What happens

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. It is an affectionate parody of slapstick comedies, including those of Charlie Chaplin, Mack Sennett and Buster Keaton. The film satirizes the film industry, presenting the story of a film producer trying to obtain studio support to make a silent film in the 1970s. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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