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Robots
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Halle Berry, halle berry (voice), Ewan McGregor
Director: Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha
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Set on a world populated entirely by robots, this is the story of a young genius, Rodney (Ewan McGregor), who wants to make robots capable of making the world a better place, but he finds his dream challenged by a corporate tyrant and a master inventor, Big Weld (Mel Brooks), while also being ..read more »
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Dracula - Dead and Loving It
(1995)
Starring: Leslie Nielsen, Peter MacNicol, Steven Weber
Director: Mel Brooks
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Count Dracula (Leslie Nielsen) has a longing to free the damp climate of his native home and leave the bats, spiders and draughty corridors behind. Short of eligible virgins to get his teeth into he looks towards England.
Count Dracula, with his American European accent, is all set to take ..read more »
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from 266 members
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Robin Hood - Men In Tights
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Cary Elwes, Amy Yasbeck, Richard Lewis
Director: Mel Brooks
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A parody of the much-done medieval English tale of Robin Hood and his Merry Men, ROBIN HOOD: MEN IN TIGHTS also directly lampoons the politically correct ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES, which starred the hearthrob of the time, the very un-British Kevin Costner. English hearthrob Cary Elwes gets a ..read more »
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64%
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Life Stinks
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Mel Brooks, Lesley Ann Warren, Jeffrey Tambor
Director: Mel Brooks
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In 'Life Stinks', Goddard Bolt, a billionaire developer, is challenged by business rival Vance Crasswell to live on the streets without money for one month among the homeless both men are trying to further displace by building on the property that is their only home. Goddard is forced to dance for ..read more »
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from 323 members
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Spaceballs
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Bill Pullman, John Candy, Daphne Zuniga
Director: Mel Brooks
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In this spoof of STAR WARS and a handful of other sci-fi flicks from the 1970s and '80s, space-bum-for-hire Lone Starr (Bill Pullman) and his half-dog/half-man sidekick, Barf (John Candy), must rescue a spoiled Druish princess (Daphne Zuniga) from the evil Lord Dark Helmet (Rick Moranis) in time to ..read more »
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from 7,730 members
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History Of The World - Part 1
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Pamela Stephenson, Dom DeLuise, Dom Deluise
Director: Mel Brooks
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In this spoof of great moments in history from the dawn of humanity through the French Revolution, director Mel Brooks delivers a twisted history lesson through his signature satirical, madcap humour. Funny, vulgar, and narrated by the great Orson Welles, 'History Of The World - Part I', tells the ..read more »
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64%
from 1,217 member
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High Anxiety
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman
Director: Mel Brooks
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In this perceptive, sidesplitting homage to Hichcock films, director, star, and writer Mel Brooks plays the average American guy, psychiatrist Richard Thorndyke (as in Roger Thorndike, Cary Grant's character in NORTH BY NORTHWEST), who's terrified of heights (think VERTIGO). He becomes the new ..read more »
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from 818 members
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Silent Movie
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Marty Feldman, Marcel Marceau, Paul Newman
Director: Mel Brooks
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The film 'Silent Movie' is director Mel Brooks's comic tribute to the golden days of the silent screen. A movie within a movie, 'Silent Movie' stars Brooks as Mel Funn, a filmmaker who has seen better days for one thing, he's just come out of a bout with the bottle. When his best friends (Marty ..read more »
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62%
from 640 members
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Blazing Saddles - HD DVD Version
(1974)
Starring: Alex Karras, Madeline Kahn, Gene Wilder
Director: Mel Brooks
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A hilarious, madcap spoof of nearly every Hollywood Western convention, BLAZING SADDLES turns racism on its head at every turn. When the sheriff of a small frontier town is killed, convict Bart (Cleavon Little) is appointed the first black sheriff of the all-white Rock Ridge by the evil Hedley ..read more »
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71%
from 232 members
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Blazing Saddles - BLU-RAY Version
(1974)
Starring: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens
Director: Mel Brooks
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A hilarious, madcap spoof of nearly every Hollywood Western convention, BLAZING SADDLES turns racism on its head at every turn. When the sheriff of a small frontier town is killed, convict Bart (Cleavon Little) is appointed the first black sheriff of the all-white Rock Ridge by the evil Hedley ..read more »
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from 941 members
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Blazing Saddles
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens
Director: Mel Brooks
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A hilarious, madcap spoof of nearly every Hollywood Western convention, BLAZING SADDLES turns racism on its head at every turn. When the sheriff of a small frontier town is killed, convict Bart (Cleavon Little) is appointed the first black sheriff of the all-white Rock Ridge by the evil Hedley ..read more »
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from 12,842 members
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Young Frankenstein
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman
Director: Mel Brooks
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An affectionate parody that pays homage to the FRANKENSTEIN films (from the novel FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley) directed by James Whale in the 1930s, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN is both a zany comedy and cinematic tour de force. Written by director Mel Brooks and the star of the film, Gene Wilder, YOUNG ..read more »
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from 6,016 members
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Twelve Chairs
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Dom Deluise, Ron Moody, Frank Langella
Director: Mel Brooks
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A stylish, frantic fable and one of director Mel Brooks's earliest films, 'The Twelve Chairs' is a madcap mystery set in revolutionary Russia. An aging ex-nobleman of the czarist regime, Count I.M. Vorobyaninov, has finally adjusted to life under the commissars in Russia. But when both he and the ..read more »
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from 367 members
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The Producers
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn
Director: Mel Brooks
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An early Mel Brooks classic and regarded by many as one of his best. Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel), one-time King of Broadway, now living upon the crazy whims and cash of amorous old ladies meets Leo Bloom (Gene Wilder), a neurotic accountant. Together they plan to produce the biggest theatrical ..read more »
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from 6,503 members
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Jakers! - Sheep On The Loose
on DVD
Starring: Cobi Jones, Mel Brooks
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PBS' charming children's television series JAKERS! THE ADVENTURES OF PIGGLEY WINKS educates and entertains with a fun blend of vibrant computer animation and good old-fashioned Irish storytelling. Aimed at children ages 4-7, the series follows three barnyard animals--eight-year-old pig Piggley ..read more »
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from 28 members
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Mel Brooks facts
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Funny, and will remain so for years to come 20 September 2003
... but also be able to tell a good story. 'Blazing Saddles' meets this challenge. Mel Brooks has taken the typical 'classical' western story and turned it upside down. The ...
9 April 2004
