6.5 / 10
(290 votes)
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.
United States of America
Comedy
87 minutes
1976
Mel Brooks
Crossbow Productions,
20th Century Fox
$4,400,000
$36,145,695
1928
7.6
1922
6.1
1925
6.0
1943
7.5
1994
5.4
1989
5.7
1986
6.5
1986
5.4
1969
5.7
2006
5.2
2020
1.2
2017
6.0
2024
10.0
2004
6.6
1974
7.5
2020
4.3
1969
5.2
1985
6.9
1981
5.9
1969
6.4