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Released
1976 · FILM

Silent Movie

A ragtag trio of wannabe directors races to fund and shoot a daring silent film before their cash‑strapped studio’s ruthless creditors shut down the project for good.

“Made In Hollywood. U.S.A.”

Directed by
Mel Brooks
Written by
Mel Brooks, Ron Clark
Runtime
87 min
Comedy
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs, and Dom Bell approach a financially struggling studio with an idea for a silent movie. To make the project more marketable, they try to secure the involvement of several high-profile stars, while the studio's creditors work to block their efforts.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Stanford C AllenShot by Paul LohmannScored by John MorrisDesigned by Albert Brenner

Box Office

1976 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 8.2× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$36.1M

Budget$4.4M
Worldwide gross$36.1M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Mel Brooks’ letzte Verrücktheit: Silent Moviede
  • Silent Moviede
  • La última locuraes
  • La Dernière Folie de Mel Brooksfr
  • L'ultima follia di Mel Brooksit

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