Mel Brooks: Make a Noise

Plot

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.

Cast

Mel Brooks

Self

Joan Rivers

Self

Carl Reiner

Self

Tracey Ullman

Self

Nathan Lane

Self

Sid Caesar

Self

Anne Bancroft

Self

Buck Henry

Self

Richard Lewis

Self

David Lynch

Self

Gene Wilder

Self (archive footage)

Zero Mostel

Self (archive footage)

Cloris Leachman

Self (archive footage)

Richard Pryor

Self (archive footage)

Cleavon Little

Self (archive footage)