Silent Movie

1976

Action / Comedy

13
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 80% · 30 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 72% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 19863 19.9K

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Mel Brooks Photo
Mel Brooks

Top cast

James Caan Photo
James Caan as James Caan
Dody Goodman Photo
Dody Goodman as Tourist Woman #1
Paul Newman Photo
Paul Newman as Paul Newman
Valerie Curtin Photo
Valerie Curtin as Intensive Care Nurse
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803.68 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
Passed
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 27 min
Seeds 7
1.61 GB
1920*1040
English 5.1
Passed
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 27 min
Seeds 25

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Stephen C 10 / 10

Funny in 1 hour and 26 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A

Funny in 1 hour and 26 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A parody of silent movies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Starring actor and director Mel Brooks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reviewed by Andrew L 8 / 10

Mel Brooks's forgotten film pays homage to the

Mel Brooks's forgotten film pays homage to the old silent movies with tons of Easter Eggs while making all of us laugh.
Reviewed by Jacob B 8 / 10

Wait, is this the ACTUAL first comedy of

Wait, is this the ACTUAL first comedy of the "[Genre] Movie" mold predating Scary Movie by 34 years? No, I think the honour of the first of those kinds of spoof films actually goes to Spy Hard. Silent Movie is more of an homage to the movies from the Golden Age of Hollywood rather than a parody film. At the very least, it avoids shoehorning in pop culture references for potential new IPs, an issue those later films would eventually devolve into. But if you're curious what I think about the film...yep, Silent Movie is pretty good. Probably one of the more underrated Mel Brooks films. Great comedic timing, well-choreographed sequences, actors playing themselves doing a good job in self-deprecating roles and Brooks being truly ahead of his time: making meta movies before they were cool. How else can you describe a movie about Mel Brooks/Funn pitching the first silent film in 40 years and getting the biggest actors of the time to be in it to persuade the Studio Executive to greenlight it? Of course, I figure the back-to-back hits of Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein gave Brooks considerably more clout in real life than his self-insert in this movie but it doesn't change the fact that the main selling point inside and outside the film is the fact that it's bereft of dialogue in an age where such films are deemed obsolete. All in all, a silly yet fun comedy that needs more love.
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