Sid Caesar

The story behind the classic movie musical. The programme examines the original stage musical in the early 1970s, which starred a young Richard Gere, and the changes that occurred between stage and screen, including the addition of several new songs and toning down the original show's darker elements. Plus, a look at some of the actors who could have played the roles made famous by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John.

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise journeys through Brooks’ early years in the creative beginnings of live television — with Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows — to the film genres he so successfully satirized in Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, High Anxiety, and Spaceballs — to the groundbreaking Broadway musical version of his first film, The Producers. The documentary also delves into his professional and personal ups and downs — his childhood, his first wife and subsequent 41-year marriage to Anne Bancroft — capturing a never-before-heard sense of reflection and confession.

New interviews with Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner, footage from the reunion of Caesar's Writers (1996), and sketches from Your Show of Shows (1950) and Caesar's Hour (1954).

For the past 40 years, a group of comedy writers and directors has gathered every other Wednesday for lunch - and other nourishment. These are the fabled guys that made America funny.

1935년 뉴욕 출생의 유태계인 ‘우디 앨런’은 미국의 영화감독이자 작가, 배우이다. ‘우디 앨런’ 최초의 다큐멘터리를 위해 에미상 수상자이자 오스카 노미네이트 경력의 ‘로버트 B. 웨이드’ 감독이 1년 반 동안 ‘우디 앨런’과 함께하며 그의 사생활과 영화 제작 과정을 필름에 담았다. 영화 는 글쓰는 것을 좋아했던 소년 ‘우디 앨런’ 부터, 매번 화제작을 내놓는 거장 ‘우디 앨런’ 의 예술과 삶을 조명한다. 인기 코미디 작가에 이어 영화감독으로 데뷔 이후 거의 매년 한 편씩 40여 편의 영화를 발표해 온 그의 작품 활동이 이 한편에 모두 담겨있다. 숨겨져있던 개인사, 제작 비하인드는 ‘숀 펜’ ,‘스칼렛 요한슨’ 등 그와 함께 작업한 뮤즈이자 할리우드 톱 배우들의 인터뷰도 만나볼 수 있다.

A collection of Ceasar's finest comedy moments.

The Big Daddy of televised comedy sketches, Sid Caesar had millions of Americans holding their sides and howling at his uproarious antics and those of his inspired sidekicks--Imogene Coca, Nanette Fabray, Carl Reiner, and Howard Morris. These are compilations of fan favorites--digitally remastered to be as crisp as they were in the 1950s. "The Fan Favorites" includes gems from the heyday of live TV, as well as interviews with writers and actors, including Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, and Neil Simon. 3-3/4 hours on 3 cassettes or 3 DVDs. Set 1 features live gut-busters from "Your Show of Shows" and "Caesar's Hour", including 18 of Caesar's own favorite sketches, plus revealing interviews with contemporaries, including Mel Brooks and Neil Simon.

The Big Daddy of televised comedy sketches, Sid Caesar had millions of Americans holding their sides and howling at his uproarious antics and those of his inspired sidekicks--Imogene Coca, Nanette Fabray, Carl Reiner, and Howard Morris. These are compilations of fan favorites--digitally remastered to be as crisp as they were in the 1950s. "The Fan Favorites" includes gems from the heyday of live TV, as well as interviews with writers and actors, including Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, and Neil Simon. 3-3/4 hours on 3 cassettes or 3 DVDs. Set 1 features live gut-busters from "Your Show of Shows" and "Caesar's Hour", including 18 of Caesar's own favorite sketches, plus revealing interviews with contemporaries, including Mel Brooks and Neil Simon. Three digitally remastered volumes: "The Magic of Live TV, Inside the Writer's Room," and "Creating the Comedy". Almost 4 hours on 3 cassettes or 3 DVDs.

One of the greatest comedians of early television, Sid Caesar hasn't had his work shown in perennial reruns, so it's especially gratifying to see a collection of his classic sketches released on video, with Caesar himself introducing the material. Besides being a truly gifted comic, Caesar benefited from having some brilliant supporting players, including Carl Reiner, Imogene Coca, and Nanette Fabray. Some of his illustrious writers, including Neil Simon, Woody Allen, and Mel Brooks, appear in interviews setting up the sketches. The sketches themselves include some all-time classics such as Caesar and company playing the figurines populating a medieval town clock (a brilliant bit partly written by Neil Simon and his brother, Danny, who reminisce after the sketch).

One of the greatest comedians of early television, Sid Caesar hasn't had his work shown in perennial reruns, so it's especially gratifying to see a collection of his classic sketches released on video, with Caesar himself introducing the material. Besides being a truly gifted comic, Caesar benefited from having some brilliant supporting players, including Carl Reiner, Imogene Coca, and Nanette Fabray. Some of his illustrious writers, including Neil Simon, Woody Allen, and Mel Brooks, appear in interviews setting up the sketches. The sketches themselves include some all-time classics such as Caesar and company playing the figurines populating a medieval town clock (a brilliant bit partly written by Neil Simon and his brother, Danny, who reminisce after the sketch).

In search of fun and freedom, a trio of animal friends -- a bold monkey with a temper, a timid, bespectacled parrot and a lightning-fast cheetah -- escape from captivity. Their adventures take them around the world and, ultimately, straight into our hearts. Willem Dafoe and Chaka Khan lend their vocal talents to this perky animated musical that the family can enjoy together.

Gomez is a middle-aged man who dreams of buying a gorgeous white suit in a nearby store, but doesn't have enough cash. He finds 4 more people of same size, who each give $20 and get to wear the suit for an hour each in return. But the suit is not just a suit - it makes wishes of the one wearing it come true.

한 집안의 가장이자, 충실한 남편인 클라크(Clark W. Griswold: 체비 체이스 분)는 이번에도 휴가 계획을 짜느라 여념이 없다. 그동안 가족 여행때마다의 해프닝을 생각하자니 골치만 아픈 클라크는 온 가족이 모두 다 행복하고 즐겁게 지낼 수 있을 거라 여기고 라스베가스로 여행지를 결정한다. 하지만 그 곳에는 이제까지의 사건들보다 더 심각한 '변수'들이 기다리고 있다. 라스베가스는 가족 모두가 즐길 수 있는 건전한 놀이들이 많은 한편, 현란하고도 마법과 같은 유혹이 이곳 저곳에 도사리고 있었다. 게다가 그 화려한 풍경들에 눈이 휘둥그레해진 클라크의 가족들은 그만큼 그 유혹에 빠져들기가 쉬웠던 것. 그리하여 문제는 클라크의 아내인 엘렌(Ellen Griswold: 비버리 단젤로 분)에서부터 시작되는데...

When two girls think the other has it better, they swap places to see who's right!

A star-studded documentary and tribute to the classic comedy, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.

Three men who have just been forced to retire convince their bank to finance their dream: To produce a line of clothing for senior citizens.

A U.S. soldier sees the Berlin Wall go up in 1961 and helps a group of East Germans escape to the West.

In Europe several several centuries ago, a group of prisoners about to be executed are freed as part of the celebration of the upcoming marriage of the emperor's daughter, Princess Gilda, to a very rich prince from another country. Sid Caesar composed the song "Clothes Make the Man". Ran 93 minutes on German TV.

A shop owner who is being evicted at Christmas rescues her Scrooge-like landlord from an accident.

The film centers on Howard F. Howard, an overweight everyman. Engaged to Beverly, the woman of his dreams, Howard has one problem - an overactive fixation with The Three Stooges. Everywhere Howard goes, he sees Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard intruding on his life. Determined to overcome his fixation, Howard and Beverly prepare for their wedding. But on his way to the ceremony, Howard descends into Stoogemania and finds himself walking into the city streets with other Stoogemaniacs. His only hope is commitment to the Stooge Hills sanitarium, under the care of a renowned psychologist, until the inmates take over the asylum on graduation day.

A young woman struggles with her own need for independence and the obligation she feels for her deaf parents in this depression-era drama. A friend sees her turmoil and tells her she must find happiness on her own. However, the initial joy she finds in marriage starts to strain under the guilt she feels for deserting her parents and the bitterness they express towards her.

수천년 동안 아라비아 사막에서 '가장 빠른 부족'이란 영예를 지켜왔던 중동 어느나라 왕이 캘리포니아에서 커네티커트까지 대륙 횡단 경주의 우승을 노리고 특수 제작한 롤스로이스로 압둘 왕자를 참가시켰으나 우승을 놓친다. 이에 분개한 왕이 100만 달러의 상금을 걸고 '캐논볼 2'를 개최해 전세계 레이서들이 몰려든다. 그런데 상금을 노린 악당들에게 압둘 왕자가 납치되고 돈도 강탈당한다. 레이스를 중단하고 참가자들이 힘을 합쳐 왕자와 100만달러 탈환 작전을 벌여 왕자를 무사히 구하고, 이에 감사한 왕자가 상금을 200만달러로 올려 그 다음날 대륙횡단의 대장정이 시작된다.

A put-upon Jewish deli owner in Brooklyn dreams of getting out from underneath the thumb of his domineering father and his haughty fashion-model girlfriend by buying his own restaurant in midtown Manhattan.

Two former bank employees, executive Dick Van Dyke, forced into early retirement by a computer, and guard Sid Caesar, unceremoniously dismissed before his pension comes due, concoct a computerized scheme to steal from the rich (i.e. the bank) and give to the poor with anonymous checks (money accessed from inactive accounts) to average do-gooders.

오리지널 그리스 갱들이 졸업하고 이년 후. 라이델 고등학교의 졸업반이 된 젊은이들에게도 갈등의 시기가 다가온다. 미모를 자랑하는 그룹 핑그레이디의 리더 스테파니와 새 얼굴 마이클의 만남은 이 학교에 새로운 사건을 몰고 온다. 새 클래스메이크가 된 마이클은 영국에서 온 샌디의 사촌으로 스테파니를 만나자마자 반하게 된다. 마이클은 스테파니와 가깝게 지내려 하지만 핑크레이디는 이곳의 갱들인 티버드의 여자라서 아무도 건드릴 수 없다는 게 지역의 불문율이다. 어떻게든 스테파니의 사랑을 얻으려는 마이클은 스테파니를 그 친구들에게서 떼어놓거나 아니면 스스로 그들의 세계에 들어가야만 하는 처지가 되는데...

인류의 태초부터 시작되는 세계사의 주요 장면들을 멜 브룩스가 일인다역으로 출연해 코믹 터치로 그린 독특한 작품. 2부 예고편이 나오지만 2부는 없다.

The lovable Munster family finds their placid world turned into turmoil by the diabolical Dr. Diablo, the mastermind of an art heist using monster robots, including clones of Herman and Grandpa.

Dorothy is carried back to Oz by a green turkey balloon on the final Thanksgiving she is to spend with her aunt and uncle, who are moving to a retirement community. She meets Jack Pumpkinhead, The Hungry Tiger, and Tic Toc (sic), and must stop the evil Tyrone the Terrible Toy Tinkerer (looking suspiciously like John R. Neil's depiction of the Nome King), who brings the balloon to life.

Fu Manchu's 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu's age-regressing elixir vitae. Fu sends his lackeys to round up ingredients for a new batch of elixir, starting with the Star of Leningrad diamond, nabbed from a Soviet exhibition in Washington. The FBI sends agents Capone and Williams to England to confer with Nayland Smith, an expert on Fu.

Two everyday schlubs are inadvertently frozen for 120 years, awakening to a wacky future run by a robot named MAX. Pilot episode for unproduced series.

With a new twist on an old holiday, Intergalatic Thanksgiving or Please Don't Eat the Planet is a delightful animated special combining space age fantasy with the old and revered traditions that make Thanksgiving a great festive holiday.

1950년대말, 캘리포니아에 있는 한 고등학교. 대니 주코(Danny Zuko: 존 트라볼타 분)와 샌디 올슨(Sandy Olsen: 올리비아 뉴튼 존 분)은 여름 방학 때 해변에서 우연히 알게 된 사이로 바캉스 시즌이 끝나자 두 사람은 기약없이 작별하지만 대니가 다니는 고등학교에 샌디가 전학해 오면서 뜻밖의 재회가 이루어진다. 내심 기뻤던 대니지만 학교의 서클인 티버즈의 리더인 그가 어느 특정한 여자에게 가까이 하면 친구들의 빈촉을 살까봐 이러지도 저러지도 못한다. 이런 대니의 마음을 모른는 샌디는 오해를 해 스포츠에 만능인 톰과 친하게 지낸다. 이에 쇼크를 받은 대니는 샌디에게 용서를 빌어 가까스로 샌디의 마음을 되돌려 놓는다. 바야흐로 학교의 최대 행사인 댄스 파티가 열리자 대니와 샌디는 한조가 되어 출전, 결승전까지 진출하지만 티버즈의 라이벌인 스코피언스의 리더인 차차의 방해로 우승을 놓친다. 화가 난 샌디에게 야외 극장에서 대니는 자기의 반지를 빼주며 샌디의 마음을 바꾸지만 샌디의 몸을 강요한게 그녀를 더 토라지게 만들고 말았다. 드디어 티버즈와 숙적인 스콜피온스 간에 카레이스로 결판을 내는 날이다. '선더로드 경주'라는 이름의 이 시합에서 차차는 비겁한 수단으로 골탕을 먹이지만 이를 잘 피해 대니가 이기는데 이를 가슴조이며 지켜보던 샌디는 대니의 품에 안긴다. 이윽고 고등학교 졸업식이 왔다. 졸업 파티가 성대하게 벌어지고 정장을 하고 머리에다 그리이스를 발라 의젓해진 대니와 샌디는 빨간 승용차를 타고 다정하게 교문을 나선다. 축하무드가 절정을 이루며 뒤를 따르는 동창생들.

A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress—his partner's wife.

Tony Franciosa plays a detective who's on the trail of a murderer whose mutilated and predominantly male victims are found encased in silken cocoons...

Barnaby and Me is a 1978 Australian TV movie about a girl and her talking koala who are pursued by criminals.

Benny and his wife Ruthie are getting set to drive down to Florida, but Benny needs someone to look after his department store while he's gone. Though he doesn't think much of him, Benny hands the responsibility over to his son, Russell. While Russell doesn't get much respect from his parents, he's better off than his brother, Ezra, whom Benny has gone so far as to disown. Ezra is currently battling with his work (coach of a high school basketball team that hasn't won in ages) and his wife (who keeps nagging him that she wants to have a baby as soon as possible) at the same time.

A team of troubleshooters is called to a skyscraper where a plane has crashed into the 20th floor and is stuck in the side of the building.

알콜 문제로 영화계를 오랜 기간 떠났던 제작자 멜 펀. 그는 야심차게 영화계로의 복귀를 꿈꾸고, 그 첫 프로젝트로 무성영화를 만들 계획을 세운다. 제작자는 이 시대착오적인 꿈을 필사적으로 반대하지만 멜은 굴하지 않고 더 큰 계획을 실행에 옮긴다. 할리우드 최고의 배우를 캐스팅하려는 것이다. 이제 멜과 동료들은 LA에 살고 있는 스타들을 찾아다니며 못 말리는 소동을 벌인다. 어쩌면 멜 브룩스의 가장 야심찬 영화일지도 모를 는 말 그대로 무성 영화의 형식을 과감하게 밀어 붙인다. 인물들의 목소리가 아니라 자막으로 모든 대사를 전달하는 것이다. 무성 영화의 형식, 특히 자막과 화면의 불일치를 이용해 웃음을 만들어내는 솜씨는 그 자체로 재미있을 뿐 아니라 이미지와 사운드에 대한 날카로운 영화적 논평으로 읽히기도 한다. 버트 레이놀즈, 제임스 칸, 폴 뉴먼 등 스타들의 과감하게 망가지는 연기도 재미를 더한다. (제1회 충무로뮤지컬영화제)

Book-ending the year 1975 with two big budget TV Specials, Ann -Margret also earned her second Oscar nomination that year, for Tommy. In January, "Ann-Margret Olssen" premiered and was titled with the star's maiden name. This second special premiered late in the year and was titled with the star's married name. Her husband Roger Smith also appears in the opening sequences. Presented by the Bell System's Family Theatre, the program was filmed at the ATV Studios at BBC Elstree Centre, Borehamwood, England.

When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles, stewardess Nancy Pryor is forced to take over the controls. From the ground, her boyfriend Alan Murdock, a retired test pilot, tries to talk her through piloting and landing the 747 aircraft. Worse yet, the anxious passengers — among which are a noisy nun and a cranky man — are aggravating the already tense atmosphere.

Ten comedy sketches compiled from the 1950s TV series, "Your Show of Shows."

When Ben and Kate Powell rent a haunted New England house by the sea, their son Steve gets blamed for the destruction caused by three unruly ghosts.

Sid Caesar is a bumbling gopher to a mob boss who must recover a fortune in cash stowed in the suit of a corpse.

A man gives his friend a series of lessons on how to cheat on one's wife without being caught.

사막의 고속도로를 맹스피드로 달리고 있던 차가 벼랑으로 떨어진다. 현장에 있었던 4대의 차로부터 5명의 남자가 도와주러 내려가지만 숨이 끊어지기 직전의 남자가 '주립공원에 35만달러의 현금이 묻혀있다'는 말을 남기고 직전의 이 말을 들은 이들은 눈색깔이 변하고 숨겨진 돈을 찾기위해 제각기 떠나게 되는데 식품운송사업에 실패한 휫치와 그의 아내. 치과의사와 그의 처, 극작가, 가재도구를 운반하던 사람들이 이들이다. 또한 영국육군중위가 가세하여 이 돈을 먼저 차지하기 위해 갖가지 방법을 동원해 나간다.

A hard-drinking reporter tries to help the embittered widow of the soldier who had saved his life during the war.

Howard Young is a coast guardsman who has been on shore duty for three years despite his efforts to be sent into action. His nearest approach to sea duty was on a harbor-moored life raft for 21 days as part of an experiment with a new type of vitamin gum for the government. He meets Christine Bradley, a SPAR, sent to take over his communications job and, by things he leaves unsaid, she thinks his life-raft experience was the result of a ship-wreck at sea.