Silent Movie
Silent Movie is a 1976 satirical comedy film cowritten, directed by, and starring Mel Brooks, and released by 20th Century Fox on June 17, 1976. The ensemble cast includes Dom DeLuise, Marty Feldman, Bernadette Peters, and Sid Caesar, with appearances by Anne Bancroft, Liza Minnelli, Burt Reynolds, James Caan, Marcel Marceau and Paul Newman playing themselves.
The film is set in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Mel Funn Mel Brooks, a great film director, is now recovering from a drinking problem and down on his luck. He sets out to Big Picture Studios to pitch a new script to the Chief, aided by his everpresent sidekicks Dom Bell Dom DeLuise and Marty Eggs Marty Feldman. His big idea the first silent motion picture in forty years. At first the Chief Sid Caesar, who is in danger of losing the studio to the literally rabid and greedy New York conglomerate Engulf amp Devour Harold Gould and Ron Carey, rejects the idea, but Funn convinces him that if he can get Hollywoods biggest stars to be in the film, he could save the studio.Funn, Eggs, and Bell proceed to recruit various people for the film. Their first target is Burt Reynolds, whom they first surprise in his shower. This does not go well, but they are able to sign him on by appearing at his house in disguise and almost getting him killed by a steamroller. They recruit James Caan despite a disastrous lunch in his broken trailer, and then torture Liza Minnelli at the studio commissary fortunately, she already badly wanted to be in the movie. They then disguise themselves as Flamenco dancers to get close to Anne Bancroft at a nightclub, and sign her on as well after a comical dance sequence. News breaks out that the Chief has taken ill and is in the hospital. While there, Mel phones Marcel Marceau in Paris who apparently declines the offer, delivering the only line of dialogue in the film, in French Non When asked by the others what Marceau said, Funn explains he doesnt understand French. Paul Newman is seen on the hospital grounds. After leading them on a wild Hollywoodstyle chase in electric wheelchairs, he asks to be in the film. Funn and company reply with the typical Hollywoodesque Well get back to you. In the next shot, a newspaper ad indicates that they ink Newman to do the movie. ........
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