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.

Woody Allen: A Documentary" é um grande documentário sobre o cineasta, dirigido por Robert Weide (Curb Your Enthusiasm) e produzido por, acreditem, Brett Ratner (Roubo nas Alturas). Woody Allen concordou em falar às câmeras sobre a sua carreira e o seu processo de trabalho. Com um acesso sem precedentes, Weide acompanhou o diretor durante um ano e meio - das filmagens de Você Vai Conhecer o Homem dos Seus Sonhos à estreia de Meia-Noite em Paris em Cannes. O projeto faz parte da série American Masters do canal PBS dos EUA e mostra a trajetória do diretor de 76 anos, da sua infância no Brooklyn à sua obsessão pelo trabalho, suas neuroses e o seu senso de humor. Entre os depoimentos, uma longa lista de atores, colaboradores e admiradores, incluindo Diane Keaton, Martin Scorsese, Scarlett Johansson, Sean Penn, Chris Rock, Antonio Banderas e Penélope Cruz.

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.

Cinco amigos azarados decidem juntar suas parcas reservas financeiras para comprar um terno encantado. Durante uma noite de muita confusão, eles revezam a utilização do costume, cada qual por uma hora, aprendendo uma lição sobre o valor da amizade.

Quando as férias chegam, Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) decide levar sua família para passar um tempo em Las Vegas. Lá, eles encontram os primos Eddie (Randy Quaid) e Catherine (Miriam Flynn), e também a prima Vicky (Shae D'lyn), que eles descobrem ser dançarina de uma gaiola em uma boate. No meio disso tudo, Clark descobre que não pode se controlar em relação ao jogo, e enquanto isso sua esposa passa o tempo ao lado de outro homem.

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.

Três homens que acabam de se aposentar, ao invés de levarem uma vida tranqüila, fazem um financiamento num banco para realizar um sonho. Eles querem abrir uma loja de roupas esportivas, uma decisão bastante arriscada, já que seu concorrente fará o impossível para tirá-los do mercado.

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.

Um milionário sheik árabe organiza um rali para que seu filho tenha a chance de se recuperar de um recente fracasso. Os competidores vão partir da Califórnia rumo a Connecticut, sendo que o prêmio é de 1 milhão de dólares para o primeiro colocado. Isso é mais do que suficiente para atrair competidores de toda ordem que, interessados no dinheiro, são capazes de qualquer loucura.

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.

Em um colégio, um concurso de talentos provoca uma disputa interna. Enquanto isto, um novo aluno, que veio da Inglaterra, fica apaixonado por uma bela jovem. Mas como ela sonha em ter um motoqueiro como namorado, ele começa a fazer os trabalhos escolares de seus colegas para ganhar dinheiro para comprar sua moto e se transformar em um misterioso motoqueiro, que impressiona a todos.

Uma versão barulhenta da história que prova que nada é sagrado - nem mesmo o Império Romano, a Revolução Francesa e a Inquisição Espanhola.

Em mais esta aventura da famosa Família Monstro, um ladrão usa um boneco idêntico ao Herman (Fred Gwynne) para roubar uma valiosa jóia. Agora, a tão unida família luta para provar sua inocência. Segundo filme baseado na série "Os Monstros" e o primeiro feito para a tv.

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.

Na celebração do 168.º aniversário de Fu Manchu é estragada quando um infeliz lacaio derrama o elixir vitae de regressão da idade de Fu. Fu envia os lacaios para reunir os ingredientes para um novo lote do elixir, começando com o diamante "Estrela de Leningrado", roubado de uma exposição soviética em Washington, D.C. O FBI envia os agentes Capone e Williams a Inglaterra para conferenciar com Nayland Smith, especialista em 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.

Em 1959 na Califórnia, o greaser Danny Zuko e a australiana Sandy Olsson estão apaixonados. Passam todo o tempo na praia, mas quando regressam às aulas, o que nenhum deles sabe é que ambos entraram na escola de Rydell High. Danny é o líder dos T-Birds, um grupo de greasers de blusões de cabedal, enquanto Sandy anda com as Pink Ladies, um grupo de meninas que se vestem de cor-de-rosa e dirigidas por Rizzo. Quando se cruzam no primeiro rally de Rydell, Danny não é o mesmo Danny da praia...

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.

Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell go to a financially troubled studio with an idea for a silent movie. In an effort to make the movie more marketable, they attempt to recruit a number of big name stars to appear, while the studio's creditors attempt to thwart them.

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.

Um pequeno avião particular se choca com um 747 e acaba matando ou incapacitando a tripulação. Uma aeromoça, seguindo instruções de rádio, assume o comando da aeronave. É então elaborado um plano quase suicida em que, através de um buraco na cabine de comando, um piloto é enviado para resgatar o avião.

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.

Após um longo tempo na prisão, homem cai de carro num precipício. Antes de morrer, ele conta às pessoas que tentam socorrê-lo onde escondera uma grande fortuna. Inicia-se então uma louca corrida ao tesouro. Oscar de Efeitos Sonoros.

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.