Mel Brooks: Make a Noise

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.

• Robert TrachtenbergDirector
• Robert TrachtenbergWriter

• Mel BrooksSelf
• Joan RiversSelf
• Carl ReinerSelf
• Tracey UllmanSelf
• Nathan LaneSelf
• Sid CaesarSelf
• Anne BancroftSelf
• Buck HenrySelf
• Richard LewisSelf
• David LynchSelf
• Gene WilderSelf (archive footage)
• Zero MostelSelf (archive footage)