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Screenplay | Stuntman
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Top Ten Films | 1976
Best Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | 1977
Best Actor in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | 1977 | Mel
Best Actor in a Supporting Role Motion Picture | 1977 | Marty
Best Actress in a Supporting Role Motion Picture | 1977 | Bernadette
Best Foreign Film | 1981
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen | 1977 | Barry
Budget 4,400,000 USD
Box Office Collection 36,145,695 USD
On the May 19, 1981, broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962), Alan Alda related his experience of attending the film's 1976 premiere in Westwood (which had Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft in the audience). Alda said he probably laughed harder than anyone in the crowd, and once the movie had ended, he approached Brooks and Bancroft to compliment them on a job well done. According to Alda, Bancroft didn't miss a beat and responded, "Oh, that was you laughing? You see Mel? I told you SOME idiot would find this funny!"
The villainous company Engulf & Devour is a spoof of Gulf + Western, which between 1965 and 1970 swallowed up eighty different companies, including Paramount Pictures in 1966.
When the dialogue cards reveal Mel Funn said to Marty Eggs, "You bad boy!", Mel Brooks can clearly be seen mouthing, "You dirty son of a bitch!"
The movie features the first onscreen pairing of Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft, who dance a tango together. The couple were married from 1964 until Bancroft's death in 2005. Aside from an uncredited cameo as a congregation member in Blazing Saddles (1974), Bancroft had not previously appeared in any of her husband's films. They later starred together in To Be or Not to Be (1983), and Bancroft starred in The Elephant Man (1980) and 84 Charing Cross Road (1987), which were produced by Brooks.
Technically the first actual silent film since 1936's "Modern Times".
"Mel Funn: [seen as an insert title] Mr. Marceau, how would you like to appear in the first silent movie made in nearly fifty years? Marcel Marceau: [in French, the only spoken line in the film] Non! Dom Bell: [seen as an insert title after Mel hangs up the phone] What did he say? Mel Funn: [seen as an insert title] I don't know. I don't speak French!"
"Mel Funn: [via title card] Marry me and you will never have to take your clothes off again."
