Silent Movie

• Mel Brooks Mel Funn
• Marty Feldman Marty Eggs
• Dom DeLuise Dom Bell
• Sid Caesar: Studio Chief
• Harold Gould: Engulf
• Ron Carey: Devour
• Bernadette Peters: Vilma chaplain
• Fritz box: Maître d' hôtel

Mel Brooks ' latest craze: Silent Movie ( Engl. DVD Title: Silent Movie) is a comedy from 1976, the subscribed on film parodies director Mel Brooks delivers here a tribute to the silent movie. .

Action

After the alcoholic, director Mel Funn has managed to be dry, he wants to get back into the movie business. For this reason, he puts his producer - in times of sound film - the screenplay for a silent film project before. This can use a box office hit well since his studio is on the verge of the Group "greed throat and Raffke " (English: " Engulf & Devour" ) to be adopted. Funns producer explains the silent movie idea first crazy, but agrees to propose for Funn to commit only big stars for the film. Mel Funn makes with his friends Marty Eggs and Dom Bell on the search.

A number of Stars says about: Burt Reynolds ( after he was found helpful in an emergency ); James Caan ( after he was taken by Mel Funns team in an embarrassing situation ); Liza Minnelli ( for Mel and his friends dress up as a knight ); Anne Bancroft (which may convince Mel and his friends with a dance routine ); Paul Newman ( with Mel and his friends deliver a chase in a wheelchair, as they visit the past with a stroke in the hospital studio boss). Only the mime artist Marcel Marceau says from, with the single word spoken in the film, " non! ".

Meanwhile, you're trying to " greed throat and Raffke " Mel Funns silent film project to stop and yet still propel the studio to ruin. So Vilma Kaplan is recognized on Mel Funn, to seduce Funn and distract him from his project. This is achieved first, but Marty and Dom find out. Out of desperation Mel Funn falls back to alcohol. Marty, Dom and Vilma set out to search and find the drunken Mel in the gutter. Tons of coffee to help him back to sober and yet to shoot the film yet. In a final act of sabotage want "greed Schlund & Raffke " shortly before the premiere burn the roll of film but is saved by Mel and his friends in time. The film will marry a success, the studio is saved, Mel and Vilma.

Reviews

• Filmdienst: A comedy, satire, and at the same time pay homage to the slapstick - art Hollywood is. A carefree pleasure ...
• Hans -Christoph Blumenberg, Die Zeit, November 5, 1976: The pleasure of the director of tasteless jokes - an intensive care unit will be converted into a game room - creates a lot of weird and beautiful situations, but gradually programmed for total entertainment joke machine but is running empty. Some sequences, such as the dance number with Anne Bancroft, however, are of such a anarchic madness that one still gets their money.

Awards

Background

Since it is an homage to the silent film, spoken also in Silent Movie a word - except for one thing: Of all the mime Marcel Marceau is the only spoken word of the film, when he rejects his role offer with a " Non! ". This earned the film a place in the Guinness Book of World Records as the sound film with the fewest spoken lines of dialogue.