Talking Pictures

Mel Brooks

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Host Ben Mankiewicz hangs out with his friend, 97-year-old legend Mel Brooks (The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein) in this often hilarious and sometimes poignant episode. Mel reminisces about Gene Wilder, David Lynch, his wife Anne Bancroft, and best friend Carl Reiner. He also recounts a tremendously funny dinner with Alfred Hitchcock. Mel Brooks has spent a lifetime watching and making movies so you don’t want to miss his answers to our Super 8 questionnaire.  


Films Mentioned:

  • Blazing Saddles*
  • Young Frankenstein
  • The Producers
  • High Anxiety
  • Psycho
  • Vertigo
  • The Elephant Man 
  • Eraserhead*
  • Frankenstein (1931) 
  • Casablanca*
  • Swing Time
  • Top Hat
  • Broadway Melody of 1940 
  • Ninotchka
  • The Gods Must Be Crazy 
  • It Happened One Night 
  • Spaceballs*
  • Random Harvest 
  • Alexander’s Ragtime Band 

    • *Available on Max as of 2/13 (Availability of titles subject to change)

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