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The Mel Brooks Collection (Blazing Saddles / Young Frankenstein / Silent Movie / Robin Hood: Men in Tights / To Be or Not to Be / History of the World, Part 1 / The Twelve Chairs / High Anxiety)

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Genre Comedy
Format Closed-captioned, Multiple Formats, Box set, Color, Dubbed, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen, Subtitled
Contributor Frank Langella, Ernst Lubitsch, Marty Feldman, Gregory Hines, Alan Johnson, Barry Levinson, Andras Voutsinas, Cleavon Little, Doris Mudie, Mel Brooks, Ron Moody, Dom DeLuise, Anne Bancroft, Cary Elwes, Madeline Kahn, Alan Uger, Andrew Bergman, Edwin Justus Mayer, Gene Wilder See more
Language English
Runtime 12 hours and 52 minutes
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INCLUDES: SILENT MOVIE, ROBIN HOOD-MEN IN TIGHTS, BLAZING SADDLES, HIGH ANXIETY, HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART 1, TO BE OR NOT TO BE, TWELVE CHAIRS, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN.

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There are plenty of belly laughs in The Mel Brooks Collection, an eight-disc set of most of the director-writer-actor's best-known films. Four of them--Silent Movie, High Anxiety, To Be or Not to Be, and Robin Hood: Men with Tights--are making their debut on DVD, while a fifth, The Twelve Chairs, was briefly available as a non-anamorphic DVD from Image Entertainment (all the DVDs in this set are anamorphically enhanced for widescreen TVs). That means you can sample a 23-year stretch of Brooks's outrageous and affectionate spoofing of everything from movies to popular legends to movies to historical figures to, hey! more movies.

The earliest film, The Twelve Chairs (1970), is the least known, but is one of the funniest, helped greatly by a good story (adapted from a 1920s Russian tale) and the casting of Ron Moody and Frank Langella as treasure hunters. Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles followed in 1974. The former, a spoof of horror films, is easily one of the top two or three funniest movies of all time, and the latter is justly famous for its often-tasteless send-up of Western cliches. Silent Movie (1976) is just what the title describes, with its only word of dialogue spoken from the least-likely source, and High Anxiety (1977) pays tribute to the work of Alfred Hitchcock. History of the World, Part 1 (1981) mocks historical events and epics, and To Be or Not to Be (1983) is a remake of Ernst Lubitsch's 1942 classic of the same name (it's also the only film in the set for which Brooks didn't receive writing and directing credit). By this time, Brooks was more actively taking the leading roles himself (rather than the bit parts), and unfortunately relying less on his topnotch ensemble of recurring players, which included Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman, and Dom DeLuise. But he does use a new ensemble (including Cary Elwes and, in his film debut, Dave Chappelle), for Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993), the feature-length spin on the same hero Brooks had spoofed in his short-lived 1975 television series When Things Were Rotten.

Bonus features are minor. In addition to an HBO featurette on Men in Tights, there's a featurette and interviews on To Be or Not to Be and all the features (Brooks commentary, deleted scenes, interviews, etc.) that were on the original release of Young Frankenstein. Note that while rights issues kept The Producers, Spaceballs, and other films out of this set, 20th Century Fox was able to use Warner Bros.' Blazing Saddles. The features on that disc, however, are the ones that were on the 1997 DVD release, not the 2004 anniversary reissue. Regardless, the set's price for this many films is low, and because it has so many films new to DVD, Brooks fans will want to pick this up faster than they can say... "Frau Blücher!" --David Horiuchi

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 2.35:1, 1.85:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 1.3 Pounds
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ FOX2226750DVD
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Alan Johnson, Mel Brooks
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Closed-captioned, Multiple Formats, Box set, Color, Dubbed, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen, Subtitled
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 12 hours and 52 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ April 4, 2006
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Anne Bancroft
  • Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ French
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, French, Spanish
  • Language ‏ : ‎ Unqualified
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ 20th Century Fox
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000E6ESIK
  • Writers ‏ : ‎ Alan Uger, Andrew Bergman, Barry Levinson, Doris Mudie, Edwin Justus Mayer
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 8
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 3,219 ratings

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4.8 out of 5 stars
4.8 out of 5
3,219 global ratings
Fantastic movies, disappointed with Amazon
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Fantastic movies, disappointed with Amazon
Fantastic movies to say the least. Mel brooks, what more need be said lol. Delicery from Amazon was sub par however, both packaging and cases were damaged bad. How the delivery guy thought it was ok to leave that is beyond my imagination. Fortunately the disks seem ok. Will have to get new cases.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente
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5.0 out of 5 stars Classic humour.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Blazing Saddles is region locked.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Très satisfait
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5.0 out of 5 stars Magic of Mel Brooks
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