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Yvonne Wilder as Studio Chief's Secretary.

The studio is saved, and Funn, Bell, Eggs, Kaplan, and Chief celebrate, as an on-screen caption identifies the film as a 'true story'. The film is a huge success with the audience, which erupts with over-the-top applause. Lacking a separate spool to rewind the film, Eggs winds the film around his own body and upon returning to the theater he has to be rushed to the projection booth to show it. They are cornered by Engulf and Devour's thuggish executives, but use the exploding soft-drink machine they encountered earlier to attack and subdue them. Kaplan stalls the audience with her nightclub act while Funn, Eggs, and Bell successfully steal the film back. The film is completed, but the only copy is stolen by Engulf & Devour just before its theatrical premiere. But Kaplan has genuinely fallen for Funn and refused Engulf & Devour's money she helps Bell and Eggs find him and restore him to sobriety. He buys a huge bottle of liquor and drinks himself into a stupor, surrounded by fellow 'winos'. He falls for her, but returns to drinking when he learns she was part of a scheme. In the course of their search for stars, the trio have a number of brief misadventures, including a mix-up between a seeing-eye dog and an untrained look-alike, several (mostly unsuccessful) efforts by Eggs to seduce various women, and a soft-drink dispensing machine that launches cans like grenades.Įngulf and Devour learn of the project, and try to sabotage it by sending voluptuous nightclub sensation Vilma Kaplan ( Bernadette Peters) to seduce Funn. While visiting the ailing Chief in the hospital, Funn phones mime artist Marcel Marceau, who responds in French with his only spoken word in the film: a resounding ' Non!' They see Paul Newman on the hospital grounds and sign him to the film after a wild electric wheelchair chase. They recruit Anne Bancroft by disguising themselves as nightclub Flamenco dancers.

They find Liza Minnelli at the studio commissary, where she eagerly agrees to be in the film. They recruit James Caan filming on location, following slapstick fumbling in an unstable dressing room trailer. They surprise Burt Reynolds in his shower and then revisit his mansion in disguise. The Chief rejects the idea at first, but Funn convinces him that if he can get Hollywood's biggest stars to be in the film, it could save the studio from a takeover by New York conglomerate Engulf & Devour ( Harold Gould and Ron Carey).įunn, Bell, and Eggs proceed to recruit various stars for the film.

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He and his sidekicks Dom Bell ( Dom DeLuise) and Marty Eggs ( Marty Feldman) pitch to Big Pictures Studios' Chief ( Sid Caesar) the idea to make the first silent movie in forty years. Mel Funn ( Mel Brooks), a once-great Hollywood film director, is now recovering from a drinking problem and down on his luck.

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