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Silent Movie
Once-famous comedy director returns to Hollywood with plans for a comeback with his faithful assistants Dom DeLuise and Marty Feldman. And that plan is to produce the first major silent feature film in forty years.
4 August 1935, Hackensack, New Jersey, USA
December 12, 1920
30 December 1935, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
28 October 1914, Columbus, Ohio, USA
22 September 1903, New York City, New York, USA
15 October 1900, Berlin, Germany
11 February 1936, Lansing, Michigan, USA
10 December 1923, Schenectady, New York, USA
22 March 1923, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France
16 March 1949, New York City, New York, USA
20 March 1920, Haverford, Pennsylvania, USA
31 March 1945, New York City, New York, USA
11 November 1930, New York City, New York, USA
6 April 1916, New York City, New York, USA
2 April 1904, New York, New York, USA
1 July 1940, Chicago, Illinois, USA
6 June 1946, USA
February 27, 2004
Brooks' tribute to silent cinema has its drawbacks, but his obvious affection for pre-talkies saves the day.
August 05, 2002
One of the funniest movies from my childhood.
March 30, 2006
Mel Brooks has never known when a joke is worthy of a five-minute bit and when it's something you can flesh out into a full length feature.
January 08, 2005
Mel Brooks was THE comic master of the 70's
July 26, 2002
Far from Brooks' best work, but it's the one that makes me laugh the most.
December 30, 2014
Silly strained comedy.
August 21, 2003
Nearly everything is done in that special Mel Brooks brand of broad comedy that quickly palls for all but the faithful.
September 22, 2005
Low end of Mel Brooks' films.
April 20, 2007
Not Brooks' best, but still funny
June 16, 2015
What disconcerts me about Mr Brooks is his obviousness, the lack of any true surprise in his gags.
September 04, 2006
While Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein stride across the land with seven-league boots, Silent Movie glides on tip-toe like Bugs Bunny in ballet slippers.