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Silent Movie is a 1976 American satirical silent comedy film cowritten, 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 ...
- June 17, 1976
- Michael Hertzberg
Jun 16, 1976 · A film director and his friends try to make a silent movie in Hollywood with the help of famous stars. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this slapstick comedy.
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A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue ). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when necessary, be conveyed by the use of inter- title cards .
A list of 100 silent films from the 1920s and 1930s, ranked by IMDb users, with ratings, genres, directors, stars and trivia. Learn about the history, technical challenges and cultural impact of the silent film era, from The General to Metropolis to Sunrise.
In this dialogue-free slapstick comedy, film director Mel Funn (Mel Brooks) travels to the ailing Big Picture Studios to pitch his comeback film: the first feature-length silent movie in many...
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Nov 22, 2013 · The pre-sound era produced some of the most beautiful, arresting films ever made. From City Lights to Metropolis, Guardian and Observer critics pick the 10 best. Charlie Chaplin in the 1931...
Mel Brooks directs and stars in a comedy about a director who tries to make a silent movie to save a bankrupt studio. The film features many sight gags, parodies, and cameos of Hollywood stars and genres.
