The Mel Brooks collection
(DVD or VCD)

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Blazing saddles originally released as a motion picture in 1974 ; High anxiety originally released as a motion picture in 1977 ; History of the world part 1 originally released as a motion picture in 1981 ; Robin Hood, men in tights originally released as a motion picture in 1993 ; Silent movie originally released as a motion picture in 1976 ; The twelve chairs originally released as a motion picture in 1970 ; To be or not to be originally released as a motion picture in 1983 ; Young Frankenstein originally released as a motion picture in 1974.

Special features: Blazing saddles: Exclusive interview with Mel Brooks; Blazing saddles: Production notes; Theatrical trailers ; Robin Hood, men in tights: HBO special: Robin Hood: men in tights - the legend had it coming; Original theatrical trailer ; To be or not to be: Making-of featurette; Character profiles; Interviews with Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft and Charles Durning ; Young Frankenstein: Mel Brooks audio commentary; Documentary: Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein; Interviews with stars Marty Feldman, Gene Wilder & Cloris Leachman; 7 deleted scenes; Outtakes/Bloopers; Production stills.

Music, John Morris ; Music for Robin Hood, men in tights, Hummie Mann.

Blazing saddles cast: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, David Huddleston, Liam Dunn, Alex Karras, John Hillerman, George Furth, Claude Ennis Starrett Jr., Mel Brooks, Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn.

High anxiety cast: Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman.

History of the world part 1 cast: Mel Brooks, Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman, Cloris Leachman, Ron Carey, Gregory Hines, Pamela Stephenson, Andreas Voutsinas, Shecky Greene, Sid Ceasar, Mary-Margaret Humes.

Robin Hood, men in tights cast: Cary Elwes, Richard Lewis, Roger Rees, Amy Yasbeck, Dave Chappelle, Isaac Hayes, Tracey Ullman.

Silent movie cast: Mel Brooks, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise, Sid Caesar, Harold Gould, Ron Carey, Bernadette Peters.

The twelve chairs cast: Ron Moody, Frank Langella, Dom DeLuise, Mel Brooks.

To be or not to be cast: Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Tim Matheson, Charles Durning, Jose Ferrer.

Young Frankenstein cast: Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Cloris Leachman, Teri Garr, Kenneth Mars, Madeline Kahn.

Blazing saddles: A railroad needs to be built, but the land necessary is already owned. Needing to drive out the town folk, you appoint a new sheriff you figure will last about 24 hours. High anxiety: Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Richard Thorndyke is a nut-job with a paralyzing fear of heights. He had just become head of the Psycho-Neurotic Institute for the Very Very Nervous. History of the world part 1: Find out what really happened throughout time. Robin Hood, men in tights: In days of olde, when men were men, men wore tights. And none wore tights mightier - or tighter - than Robin Hood. Silent movie: As the ruthless conglomerate Engulf and Devour targets a floundering movie studio, has-been director Mel Funn convinces the paranoid studio chief to make a star-studded silent picture. The twelve chairs: The tale of a former aristocrat who is now a Russian clerk under the new Soviet regime. To be or not to be: Frederick Bronski is a great Polish actor, his wife is an actress, with whom he fights a tug-of-war battle for center statge. Young Frankenstein: Summoned by a will to his late grandfathers castle in Transylvania, young Dr. Frankenstein soon discovers the scientists step-by-step manual explaining how to bring a corpse to life.

MPAA rating: G, PG or R.

DVD, NTSC, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) and widescreen (1.85:1 or 2.35:1) presentations; Dolby Digital stereo., Dolby Digital mono., dual-layer.

English, dubbed French or dubbed Spanish, English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.