Silent Movie

film by Brooks [1976]

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Silent Movie is a 1976 film directed by and starring Mel Brooks. The movie is a comedy that pays homage to the silent film era, particularly the works of Mack Sennett. Brooks stars as a director who attempts to convince a studio head to produce a silent film. The movie relies heavily on visual gags and physical comedy, with minimal dialogue. While Brooks is known for his satirical spoofs of various genres, Silent Movie is noted for being less of a parody and more of an affectionate tribute to the silent film format.1

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Mel Brooks
Films of the 1970s
Less successful was Silent Movie (1976), in which Brooks himself starred as a washed-up director who persuades the head of a motion-picture studio (played by Caesar) to make a silent picture. Without dialogue and loaded with sight gags, Silent Movie was less a spoof than an affectionate homage…
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Less successful was Silent Movie (1976), in which Brooks himself starred as a washed-up director who persuades the head of a motion-picture studio (played by Caesar) to make a silent picture. Without dialogue and loaded with sight gags, Silent Movie was less a spoof than an affectionate homage…
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Anne Bancroft
Mel Brooks—Silent Movie (1976), To Be or Not to Be (1983), and Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995). For one of Bancroft’s occasional returns to the stage— Golda (1977)—she received a third Tony nomination, and television roles in PBS’s Mrs. Cage (1992) and CBS’s Oldest Living…
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Mel Brooks—Silent Movie (1976), To Be or Not to Be (1983), and Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995). For one of Bancroft’s occasional returns to the stage— Golda (1977)—she received a third Tony nomination, and television roles in PBS’s Mrs. Cage (1992) and CBS’s Oldest Living…
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