The Mel Brooks Collection [9 Discs] [Blu-ray]

This collection of nine films from revered comic director Mel Brooks includes The Twelve Chairs, Blazing Saddles, Silent Movie, his Hitchcock pastiche High Anxiety, History of the World Part I, his remake of To Be or Not to Be, the Star Wars spoof Spaceballs, and Robin Hood: Men In Tights.
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Mel Brooks produced, directed, wrote, and starred in this episodic comedy in the spirit of Monty Python and the 1957 studio travesty The Story of Mankind. The film is divided into five sequences that play like blue-toned Eddie Cantor vaudeville sketches -- ""The Dawn of Man,"" ""The Stone Age,"" The Spanish Inquisition,"" ""The Bible,"" and ""The Future."" Also included is a Brooksian depiction of The Last Supper and a long-winded sequence about the French Revolution. The film starts with a 2001: A Space Odyssey parody, narrated by Orson Welles, in which a collection of ape-men learn to stand erect (in more ways than one). The Stone Age reveals the origins of both the first homo sapien and homosexual marriages. Brooks then appears in an Old Testament sequence as Moses, descending from Mount Sinai with three heavy stone tablets bearing the 15 Commandments; after he drops one of these tablets, the laws of God become 10 Commandments. The Roman period picks up with Brooks as Comicus, attempting to get a gig as a ""stand-up philosopher"" at Caesar's Palace. The Spanish Inquisition is a musical production number with monks torturing Jews to lively Broadway musical strains. The final French revolution section is a broad parody of The Man in the Iron Mask story. The film closes with coming attractions of ""History of the World, Part II"" that features a rousing Star Wars parody (anticipating Space Balls) called ""Jews in Space"" that includes a jaunty theme song.~Paul Brenner
Name : Mel Brooks: Role : Comicus
Name : Mel Brooks: Role : Jacques
Name : Mel Brooks: Role : King Lou
Name : Mel Brooks: Role : Moses
Name : Mel Brooks: Role : Torquemada
Name : Dom DeLuise: Role : Nero
Name : Madeline Kahn: Role : Empress Nympho
Name : Harvey Korman: Role : Count de Monet
Name : Cloris Leachman: Role : Madame de Farge
Name : Ron Carey: Role : Swiftus
Name : Mel Brooks: Role : Director
Name : Mel Brooks: Role : Producer
Name : Mel Brooks: Role : Screenwriter
Name : Ronny Graham: Role : Screenwriter
Name : Paul Wilson: Role : Cinematographer
Name : Woody Omens: Role : Cinematographer
Name : John Morris: Role : Composer (Music Score)
Name : John C. Howard: Role : Editor
Name : Harold Michelson: Role : Production Designer
Name : Norman Newberry: Role : Production Designer
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