Mel Brooks — Playwright (14)

Movie

An Audience with Mel Brooks (1984)
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Mel Brooks delivers an enjoyable hour of comic diversion with his lovely actress-wife Anne Bancroft, writer comedian Ronny Graham and British Shakespearean actor Jonathan Pryce. Brooks Spontaneous humor, social commentaries and zany sketches leave the audience rolling in the aisles and will leave you wanting more of Mel!

Movie

New Faces (1954)
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New Faces was a musical revue with songs and comedy skits tied together by a quirky plot. It ran on Broadway for nearly a year in 1952 and was then made into a motion picture in 1954. It helped jump start the careers of several young performers including Paul Lynde, Alice Ghostley, Eartha Kitt, Carol Lawrence, performer/writer Mel Brooks (as Melvin Brooks), and lyricist Sheldon Harnick. The film was basically a reproduction of the stage revue with a thin plot added. The plot involved a producer and performer (Ronny Graham) in financial trouble and is trying to stave off an angry creditor long enough to open his show. A wealthy Texan offers to help out, on the condition that his daughter be in the show.

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The Producers (2005)
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other title: The Producers - Una gaia commedia neonazista / Os Produtores …
A conniving Broadway producer and his meek accountant plan to profit from charming wealthy old biddies to invest in an overbudget production, and then put on a sure-fire disaster, so nobody will ask for their money back — and what's more disastrous than a tasteless musical celebrating Adolf Hitler.

Performance

Young Frankenstein
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Mel Brooks / Thomas Meehan genre: Musical composer: Mel Brooks
other title: 青年弗兰肯斯坦 / 年轻的科学怪人 / 新科学怪人 director: Patrick Brady actor: Roger Bart / Fred Applegate
年轻的法克斯坦博士神推鬼撞下来到祖父的城堡,无意中发现了一本祖父的记事簿,在驼背人伊哥与性感野性的伊加帮助下,加上偷回来的脑,根据祖父的科学实验资料,成功制造了一具怪物——科学怪人。可惜,偷回来的脑出了岔子,导致科学怪人极渴望被爱,它离家出走,在郊外遇上小女孩与一名瞎子……

TV

Get Smart Season 1 (1965)
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Bruce Bilson / Frank McDonald … actor: Don Adams / Barbara Feldon …
Get Smart is an American comedy television series that satirizes the secret agent genre. Created by Mel Brooks with Buck Henry, the show stars Don Adams, Barbara Feldon, and Edward Platt. Henry said they created the show by request of Daniel Melnick, who was a partner, along with Leonard Stern and David Susskind, of the show's production company, Talent Associates, to capitalize on "the two biggest things in the entertainment world today"—James Bond and Inspector Clouseau. Brooks said: "It's an insane combination of James Bond and Mel Brooks comedy." This is the only Mel Brooks production to feature a laugh track. The success of the show eventually spawned the follow-up films The Nude Bomb and Get Smart, Again!, as well as a 1995 revival series and a 2008 film remake. In 2010, TV Guide ranked Get Smart's opening title sequence at No. 2 on its list of TV's Top 10 Credits Sequences, as selected by readers.

Movie

Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
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other title: Robin Hood - Un uomo in calzamaglia / Robin Hood - Helte i underhylere …
Robin Hood comes home after fighting in the Crusades to learn that the noble King Richard is in exile and that the despotic King John now rules England, with the help of the Sheriff of Rottingham. Robin Hood assembles a band of fellow patriots to do battle with King John and the Sheriff.

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Spaceballs (1987)
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★ 6.7 12 ratings
other title: Balle spaziali / Spaceballs - Rumnødderne …
When the nefarious Dark Helmet hatches a plan to snatch Princess Vespa and steal her planet's air, space-bum-for-hire Lone Starr and his clueless sidekick fly to the rescue. Along the way, they meet Yogurt, who puts Lone Starr wise to the power of "The Schwartz." Can he master it in time to save the day?

Movie

Silent Movie (1976)
Silent Movie
other title: L'ultima follia di Mel Brooks / Mel Brooks' letzte Verrücktheit: Silent Movie …
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.

Movie

Young Frankenstein (1974)
Young Frankenstein
★ 8.7 9 ratings
other title: Frankenstein Junior / Frankenstein Júnior …
A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind.

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The Producers (1968)
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other title: Per favore, non toccate le vecchiette! / Forår for Hitler …
Broadway producer Max Bialystock and his accountant, Leo Bloom plan to make money by charming wealthy old biddies to invest in a production many times over the actual cost, and then put on a sure-fire flop, so nobody will ask for their money back – and what can be a more certain flop than a tasteless musical celebrating Hitler.

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Blazing Saddles (1974)
Blazing Saddles
★ 7.9 7 ratings
other title: Mezzogiorno e mezzo di fuoco / Sheriffen skyder på det hele …
A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lamarr sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.