Fatso 1980  PG, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Anne Bancroft
Cast: Dom DeLuise, Anne Bancroft, Ron Carey, Candice Azzara, Michael Lombard, Sal Viscuso, Delia Salvi, Robert Costanzo, Estelle Reiner, Richard Karron, Renata Vanni, Paul Zegler, Madeleine Taylor Holmes, Natasha Ryan, David Comfort
Dominick (Dom DeLuise) decides to diet as a direct result of a fat cousin's death. Along the diet path, he falls in love with Lydia (Candice Azzara) who likes him fat–maybe she sees some early life insurance money!
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High Anxiety 1977  PG, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Thriller
Director: Mel Brooks
Cast: Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman, Dick Van Patten, Ron Carey, Howard Morris, Barry Levinson, Jack Riley, Charlie Callas, Ron Clark, Rudy De Luca, Lee Delano, Richard Stahl, Darrell Zwerling
This satirical look at Alfred Hitchcock films takes place in a San Francisco sanitarium: Psycho-neurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous. A new director, Richard Thorndyke (Mel Brooks), arrives on the scene and becomes attracted to Victoria Brisbane (Madeline Kahn) whose father is being detained at the mental hospital. Meanwhile, psychiatrist Dr. Charles Montague (Harvey Korman) and nurse Charlotte Diesel (Cloris Leachman) have been bilking patients out of their money, and they frame Thorndyke on a murder charge. Thorndyke fights for his own sanity and, with help from Victoria, works to save the Institute.
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History of the World: Part I 1981  R, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical
Director: Mel Brooks
Cast: Mel Brooks, Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman, Orson Welles, Cloris Leachman, Art Metrano, John Ghavan, Paul Mazursky, John Hurt, Ron Carey, Gregory Hines, Pamela Stephenson, Shecky Greene, Sid Caesar
The Roman Empire, the Spanish Inquisition, and the French Revolution are presented as you have never read in history books. Added to that are excerpts from the Bible presented in humorous, irreverent ways. This is definitely a hysterical historical movie.
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Made for Each Other 1971   PG, 104 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert B. Bean
Cast: Renee Taylor, Joseph Bologna, Paul Sorvino, Olympia Dukakis, Helen Verbit, Louis Zorich, Norman Shelley, Adam Arkin, Ron Carey, Peggy Pope
Two dysfunctional people (Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna) meet at their encounter session that begins an offbeat relationship that leads to marriage. Very funny. 1 User Review
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| | One of the funniest movies of the 70's | Tianello 08/12/2010 | | I have been trying to find this movie for almost 40 years. My husband and I saw it in 1971 and thought it was hysterically funny. Bologna and Taylor, who are married in real life, play an Italian and a Jew, and there's a scene when he brings her home to meet his mother that is priceless. For some reason, it is not available on DVD or video, to my knowledge. I once caught the tail end of it on AMC. Haven't seen it since. |
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The Out of Towners 1970 G, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: The Out-of-Towners
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Sandy Dennis, Sandy Baron, Anne Meara, Ann Prentiss, Graham Jarvis, Ron Carey, Philip Bruns, Billy Dee Williams, Paul Dooley, Robert Nichols, Carlos Montalban, Robert King, Dolph Sweet, Thalmus Rasulala
Heading for a job interview in N.Y.C., a couple, George and Gwen Kellerman (Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis), leave their quiet neighborhood in Ohio and meet with disasters. Dennis' oft-heard description of each and every new misfortune that they encounter is "Oh, My God!" This is a very funny film. 1 User Review
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| | bamabelle 02/10/2010 | | This is the funniest film I have ever seen. The story line is outrageously so connective, it could just as well have been a non-fiction. Keep the tissues handy, OH NO, not a tear jerking film, but you will laugh so hard you will need the tissues for tears falling from laughing so darn hard |
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Silent Movie 1976 PG, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mel Brooks
Cast: Mel Brooks, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise, Bernadette Peters, Sid Caesar, Paul Newman, Liza Minnelli, Anne Bancroft, Marcel Marceau, Harold Gould, Ron Carey, Carol Arthur, Liam Dunn, Fritz Feld, Chuck McCann
Mel Brooks portrays movie director Mel Funn who cons a studio executive (Sid Caesar) into letting him and his assistants Dom Bell and Marty Eggs (Dom DeLouise and Marty Feldman) make a silent film to save the studio from a takeover. The deal is made IF Brooks can provide top stars for the production. The stars include Paul Newman, Liza Minnelli, Marcel Marceau, and Anne Bancroft who play themselves. The film is a series of hilarious sight gags; only one word is spoken during the entire film–by Marcel Marceau!
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| 1. Fatso (1980)
2. High Anxiety (1977)
3. History of the World: Part I (1981)
4. Made for Each Other (1971)
5. The Out of Towners (1970)
aka: The Out-of-Towners
6. Silent Movie (1976)
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