Synopsis
Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell go to a financially troubled studio with an idea for a silent movie. In an effort to make the movie more marketable, they attempt to recruit a number of big name stars to appear, while the studio's creditors attempt to thwart them.
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Cast
- Mel BrooksMel Funn
- Marty FeldmanMarty Eggs
- Dom DeLuiseDom Bell
- Sid CaesarStudio Chief
- Harold GouldEngulf
- Ron CareyDevour
- Bernadette PetersVilma Kaplan
- Carol ArthurPregnant Lady
- Liam DunnNewsvendor
- Fritz FeldMaitre d'
Recommendations
- 100
Chicago Sun-Times
Mel Brooks will do anything for a laugh. Anything. He has no shame. He's an anarchist; his movies inhabit a universe in which everything is possible and the outrageous is probable, and Silent Movie, where Brooks has taken a considerably stylistic risk and pulled it off triumphantly, made me laugh a lot. - 80
The New York Times
A virtually uninterrupted series of smiles. - 80
Newsweek
The gags as usual vary in quality from gold to zinc, but what makes Silent Movie more than a string of gags is the comic sensibility of Brooks. [12 Jul 1976, p.69] - 75
The A.V. Club
When American films were addressing social turmoil like never before, Brooks used his clout to turn back the clock by combining silly sight gags, show-biz satire, silence, and celebrity cameos in 1976's aptly named, ingratiatingly goofy Silent Movie. - 60
Variety
The slender plot of Silent Movie [from a story by Ron Clark] is basically a hook for slapstick antics, some feeble and some very fine (notably a wonderful nightclub tango with Anne Bancroft). Harry Ritz, Charlie Callas, Henny Youngman, and the late Liam Dunn are standouts. - 50
Time Out
It's the kind of silliness that's too strained and self-indulgent to be enjoyable. - 25
TV Guide Magazine
A series of heavily telegraphed, desperately played and incredibly unfunny sight gags, Silent Movie is truly a maddeningly insulting salute to the golden age of film comedy.
