Silent Movie

Name: Silent Movie
Genre: Comedy
Released: June 16, 1976
Duration: 87 min
Rating: 75
Cast: Bernadette Peters, Carol Arthur, Dom DeLuise, Fritz Feld, Harold Gould

1976

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Twentieth Century Fox | Release Date: June 16, 1976 | Passed

Starring: Bernadette Peters, Carol Arthur, Dom DeLuise, Fritz Feld, Harold Gould, Liam Dunn, Marty Feldman, Mel Brooks, Ron Carey, Sid Caesar

Summary: A film director and his strange friends struggle to produce the first major silent feature film in forty years.

Director: Mel Brooks

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: Passed

Runtime: 87 min

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Roger Ebert

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. Read full review

Jack Kroll

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]

Vincent Canby

A virtually uninterrupted series of smiles. Read full review

Nathan Rabin

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. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

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. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

It's the kind of silliness that's too strained and self-indulgent to be enjoyable. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

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. Read full review

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Thatwwefan

Nov 12, 2020

It’s ok the slapstick is funny It’s ok the slapstick is funny It’s ok the slapstick is funny

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