Silent Movie
1976 American satirical comedy film by Mel Brooks / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Silent Movie is a 1976 American satirical silent comedy film cowritten, directed by and starring Mel Brooks, released by 20th Century Fox in summer 1976. The ensemble cast includes Dom DeLuise, Marty Feldman, Bernadette Peters and Sid Caesar, with cameos by Anne Bancroft, Liza Minnelli, Burt Reynolds, James Caan, Marcel Marceau and Paul Newman as themselves. The film was produced in the manner of a 20th-century silent film, with intertitles instead of spoken dialogue; the soundtrack consists almost entirely of accompanying music and sound effects. It is an affectionate parody of slapstick comedies, including those of Charlie Chaplin, Mack Sennett and Buster Keaton. The film satirizes the film industry, presenting the story of a film producer trying to obtain studio support to make a silent film in the 1970s.
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Directed by | Mel Brooks |
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Story by | Ron Clark |
Produced by | Michael Hertzberg |
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Cinematography | Paul Lohmann |
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Music by | John Morris |
Production company | Crossbow Productions |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 87 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Budget | $4 million[2] |
Box office | $36.1 million[3] |