Silent Movie Summary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Mel Brooks
Genres: Comedy
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Silent Movie is just that: a totally nonverbal comedy, save for one single line. Director Mel_Brooks stars as a once-famous comedy director, who with his faithful assistants Dom DeLuise and Marty_Feldman return to Hollywood with plans for a comeback. Brooks wants to return to the good old days by producing a silent movie (he explains this via subtitle). Producer Sid_Caesar is agreeable, provided Brooks can line up top stars. In a series of vignettes better seen than described, Brooks persuades Burt_Reynolds, Liza_Minelli, Paul_Newman, James_Caan and Anne_Bancroft (Brooks' real-life wife) to star in his project. The only holdout is mime Marcel_Marceau, who after a few moments of walking against the wind shouts the film's solitary line: "No!" Meanwhile, the crooked executives of the Engulf and Devour conglomerate want to take over Caesar's studio and are worried that Brooks' film might be so huge a hit that Caesar won't be interested in selling. To prevent this, the conglomerate dispatches sexy Bernadette_Peters to lure Brooks into drink and ruination. The film's climax is lifted from the 1943 Olsen and Johnson film Crazy_House). Featured in brief comic cameos are Harry_Ritz as the man with half a suit, Charlie_Callas as the blind man, Dom DeLuise's wife, Carol_Arthur, as the incredibly pregnant woman, Fritz_Feld as the headwaiter (whose trademarked "Pop" is conveyed on a subtitle) and Henny_Youngman as the diner with a fly in his soup. Co-writers Ron Clark, Rudy DeLuca and Barry_Levinson also show up on screen as three of the Engulf & Devour minions. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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