Mel Brooks, Frank Capra, Robert Altman & Peter Bogdanovich Discuss Hollywood | The Dick Cavett Show

Is Hollywood A Dying Business? Dick Cavett welcomes a star line-up of Mel Brooks, Frank Capra, Robert Altman and Peter Bogdanovich to show to discuss whether Hollywood is dying.
Date aired - January 21 1972 - Peter Bogdanovich, Mel Brooks, Robert Altman and Frank Capra
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[@TheDickCavettShow]

How has Hollywood changed since this debate?

[@clitatits6653]

Sadly its only gotten worse since then

[@lucaspadilla4815]

Non-creative ppl are still the CEOs of Hollywood

[@brachiator1]

Fascinating directors panel. Peter Bogdanovich must have been in heaven, to be included with Capra and other heavyweights. He was a relatively new director who hit the big time with The Last Picture Show.

[@jadezee6316]

@@johnmulligan455 talking to..Orson Wells...with Wells doing most of the talking if you have read the book...which i have

[@bobbybeltran6142]

... and hit it hard (career downfall) in the 80s (arguably after "Star 80"). It was a perfect prediction of his career as a filmmaker.

[@theorz8698]

@@bobbybeltran6142 Didn't Bob fosse direct that ?

[@bobbybeltran6142]

@@theorz8698 Yes, my apologies. I was referring to "They All Laughed" starring the late Dorothy Stratton, the protagonist in Fosse's "Star 80".

[@mousetreehouse6833]

Dick Cavett - still the best talk-show host.

[@jeshkam]

I'd love to see William Friedkin, Michael Mann and David Fincher having a chat in similar fashion.

[@wizkidsvideos]

How amazing to have these iconic men in one interview. Thanks.

[@jadezee6316]

THERE IS ONLY ONE iconic man in this group....

[@s.garabet1677]

Frank Capra would be mortified at what became of Hollywood now. "Non creative people are running Hollywood at the moment"... which is funny to think about because the 70's ended up with some of the best movies (The Godfather movies later in 72, Star Wars etc etc). Now they're producing products that appeal and appease certain markets. Naturally money's gotta be made (it's always been the case), but it's far more pronounced now than ever.

[@ianbauer4703]

Miss the old daze.

[@Andrew-yh4sc]

Although what about the indie scene with creatives all around the world having the tools and access to make nearly anything they like

[@CaesarDarias]

Thank you. I love it. Please continue to post more of your interviews with directors and writers. They are entertaining and very educational.

[@infonut]

It's a crime this is so short considering the talent involved. This should be a 2hr interview plus question/answer session. What a tragically missed opportunity.

[@JeffRebornNow]

God, I love Mel Brooks. So naturally funny. He and Peter Bogdanovich were (are) such great storytellers.

[@bobbybeltran6142]

Mandatory viewing for film students especially today's generation of social media-driven, digital culture-exposed people... Bogdanovich, then a film critic and now a filmmaker, actually predicted his career (rightly so) a decade after this interview.

[@olgadebartolome1332]

The old and new Hollywood at a perfect crossroad

[@ricardo_limassol]

omg. give us 24 hour channel please.

[@maryrosekent8223]

I adore Frank Capra’s movies-especially The Lady Eve-but Bogdanovich directed the funniest, silliest movie I’ve ever seen: What’s Up Doc

[@theorz8698]

The lady eve is a preston sturges film, but i understand the confusion, films from that period by people like Mccarey, Cukor, Lubitsch and Capra looked pretty much the same, mixing screwball sensibilities with social commentary, and often using the same actors and cameraman.

[@maryrosekent8223]

@@theorz8698 Yikes! My brain is no longer my ally... My favorite Frank Capra film is _Mr. Deeds Goes to Town._ Gary Cooper makes me weak in the knees!

[@hunterwyeth]

This is a Mel Brooks whose biggest title so far was The Producers. Before Blazing Saddles or Young Frankenstein.

[@adarshjose3891]

Very interesting ❣️❣️❣️

[@fifthbusiness1678]

What year was this shot, anyone know? I was thinking mid 70s but there were plenty of good films released in the early to mid 70s Oh, and god bless Mel Brooks.

[@juanceitlin2151]

👏👏👏👏👏

[@Gannooch]

Got a question. Are you going to upload the Dick Cavett Show with Art Carney?

[@conan_three]

"You're a legend to yourself"

[@ianbauer4703]

Mel is fantastic

[@Gannooch]

Is this channel ever going to show Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Jackie Gleason and/or Art Carney? I don’t have the Decades channel.

[@Gannooch]

have nothing against the other celebs that were on this show but is this channel ever going to show the Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Jackie Gleason or Art Carney? How about any Honeymooners actors that were part of the main cast? These are rarities much like these.

[@bobbybeltran6142]

Too much filmmaking talent in the room but that is okay. They know what they are talking about given their respective careers. "Films are not gonna die." - Frank Capra - What a prescient, thematically-urgent insight when we look at Hollywood today.

[@oscarsalesgirl296]

Good films with actual morality like Capra movies will be made on a smaller scale among communities online. Of course they will not get the curation push of Journalists, Netflix and KZbin. But they will gain traction through their own merits and word of mouth!

[@jadezee6316]

the same influences were on the studios and the films we call classic,,as what are on today's movies....first you had to get your script through censors...and you had to write the actual script in a way that reflected their attitudes...for example you couldn't get a movie made where a murderer got away with it...there had to be retribution...plus...in a movie like lost weekend....the liquor businesses were offended and thought it would hurt business and wanted to pay millions of dollars to buy the movie to destroy it...and prevent it from being shown... the business of making movies has never changed,,,its about profit...i prefer the "classic"...movies 1930....to 1958 or so....a few later on...because i find the writing better the actors better and the directors miles ahead of what we have today.... i dont know if that explains why movies were better but if you look at any list of the greatest movies ever made...the classics are far away the majority of what the people think were best.

[@oscarsalesgirl296]

Hollywood is the way it is because the people who run things worship Satan. It's very simple

[@markmarsh27]

One Of These Things Is NOT Like The Others. .... Mel Brooks was a Director Of DUMBASS CARTOONS compared to the 3 towering Masters Of Cinema he sat with on this panel. ... He had NO BUSINESS being among Them.

[@oscarsalesgirl296]

Bogdanovich and Altman are the Adam McKays of their day. Will be forgotten the moment Journalists, writers & curators stop insisting you watch their stuff

[@jadezee6316]

these three others do not deserve sitting next to Capra...that is for sure

[@gabrielmcconnor4493]

I’d say that Mel Brooks does, but he’s operating in a different league than Capra.

[@JoeCasanovax]

Altman >>>>

[@oscarsalesgirl296]

Agreed!

[@lonestar6709]

Do you even know who Robert Altman is?! He's arguably the best director America has ever produced!