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Spain released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada. Languages:
o Dutch (subtitles)
o English (subtitles)
o French (subtitles)
o German (subtitles)
o Italian (subtitles)
o Spanish (subtitles)
o English (Dolby Surround) Synopsis: 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
Spain released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada. Languages:
o Dutch (subtitles)
o English (subtitles)
o French (subtitles)
o German (subtitles)
o Italian (subtitles)
o Spanish (subtitles)
o English (Dolby Surround) Synopsis: 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. In a series of uproarious 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. She is almost successful in this before she has a change of heart. On the evening of the preview of Brooks' movie, the devious executives steal the film's last reel, precipitating a wild chase climax (this plot device is lifted bodily from the 1943 Olsen and Johnson film Crazy House). Co-writers Ron Carey, Rudy DeLuca and Barry Levinson also show up on screen as three of the Engulf & Devour minions. Special Features:
o Interactive Menu
o Scene Access
o Trailer(s)
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One of Mel Brooks's weaker vehicles, this 1976 feature finds a movie producer (Brooks) deciding that the public is ready for the silent film form again. Reasonably ambitious and promising, the film ultimately doesn't do for silent cinema what Brooks did for atmospheric horror (by reviving it while parodying it) in Young Frankenstein. Lots of famous faces pass through Silent Movie, to varying effect. Perhaps the best joke in the movie is the one performer who actually has a line of dialogue: mime Marcel Marceau. --Tom Keogh
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Manufacturer: Fox
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0842026699505 UPC: 842026699505
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