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- 1976
- PG
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 27 m
- 1976
- PG
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 27 m
Summary A film director and his strange friends struggle to produce the first major silent feature film in forty years.
Directed By: Mel Brooks
Written By: Ron Clark, Rudy De Luca, Barry Levinson, Mel Brooks
- 1976
- PG
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 27 m
- 1976
- PG
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 27 m
Silent Movie
75
5.1
Summary A film director and his strange friends struggle to produce the first major silent feature film in forty years.
Directed By: Mel Brooks
Written By: Ron Clark, Rudy De Luca, Barry Levinson, Mel Brooks
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
75
57% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
29% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
14% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
75
57% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
29% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
14% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
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.
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]
A virtually uninterrupted series of smiles.
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.
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.
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.
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Production Company
Crossbow Productions
Release Date Jun 16, 1976
Duration 1 h 27 m
Rating PG
Genres
Tagline In glorious phonic sound.
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 4 Nominations
National Board of Review, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Writers Guild of America, USA
• 1 Nomination
