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There was no argument with the well-documented facts. On May 16,1974 near Los Angeles, Symbionese Liberation Army Members Bill and Emily Harris got into a sidewalk struggle with employees at Mel's Sporting Goods Store over Bill's alleged shoplifting. Across the street the Harrises' captive-turned-comrade, Patty Hearst, opened up with covering fire. The trio then fled and switched one after another to four vehicles that they appropriated; in two cases the owners were also taken along. The Harrises conceded all that in their current trial for assault, robbery and kidnaping. What then...
...Magnifique. Philip de Broca sets out to do to the spy thriller what he did to the World War I genre in King of Hearts. In America, Mel Brooks would be the likely candidate to take off on this secret agent silliness, one thinks--until one remembers that he did, with Get Smart on TV. And that's what this movie looks like at first, a French Get Smart, only with the added attraction of Belmondo's sexy grimaces and Jacqueline Bisset's--well, Jacqueline Bisset. But Brooks will joy-buzz you all night with this sort of thing (every...
Directed by MEL BROOKS Screenplay by MEL BROOKS, RON CLARK, RUDY DeLUCA and BARRY LEVINSON...
Desperate Scheme. The movie has to do with the efforts of a down-at-the-heels Hollywood director named Mel Funn (portrayed, inevitably, by Brooks himself) and his desperate scheme to save not just his own career but a major studio. Funn wants to make a silent movie, a comedy, of course. The studio chief (Sid Caesar) thinks Mel is nuts, but Mel, a pro, counters with the one blandishment proved irresistible to moguls on the ropes - movie stars. What if Funn and his two buddies (Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise) are able to round up some of Hollywood...
That is all the plot there is. Brooks assumes that all he needs is a premise, and he may be right. The movie is a se ries of set pieces for Mel and the boys...