# Movies with the fewest spoken lines **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 1, 2006, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-fewest-spoken-lines/350822 "2006-04-01T06:35:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-fewest-spoken-lines/350822/21 "2006-04-01T21:23:30Z")
> [@KlondikeGeoff](#): > > Man, that was a great film, can anybody remember the title? The main actor’s name is also on the tip of my tongue, but won’t come out either. > > It did have a couple scenes where he met kid and they spoke alittle, IIRC. I love the end where after being pursued for days on end, he finally ran towards an army fort. In the middle of the field in front, he looked back and the natives were just standing there looking at him. Finally, the leader waved in a salute to his fortitude. > > Somebody tell me the title, please, want to get it from Netflix! Is it [The Naked Prey](http://imdb.com/title/tt0060736/)? ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-fewest-spoken-lines/350822/22 "2006-04-01T21:42:15Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Is it [The Naked Prey](http://imdb.com/title/tt0060736/)? That’s it! Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![KlondikeGeoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-fewest-spoken-lines/350822/23 "2006-04-01T23:40:05Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Is it [The Naked Prey](http://imdb.com/title/tt0060736/)? Great, many thanks! Oh, yeah, :smack: Cornel Wilde, whatever happened to him? Among the living? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-fewest-spoken-lines/350822/24 "2006-04-01T23:46:29Z")
> [@KlondikeGeoff](#): > > Great, many thanks! Oh, yeah, :smack: Cornel Wilde, whatever happened to him? Among the living? He’s been gone since 1989. [IMDB page here.](http://imdb.com/name/nm0928425/) ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-fewest-spoken-lines/350822/25 "2006-04-02T03:35:27Z")
**Quest for Fire** had the Cavepeople grunting quite a bit and doing a bit of laughing. Sometimes they said each other’s names, like “Na’oh.” I wouldn’t actually call them spoken lines, though. **The New World** takes the prize for Most Overwhelming Use of Interior Monologue, at least among recent films. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-fewest-spoken-lines/350822/26 "2006-04-02T03:47:45Z")
**The Triplets of Belleville** has almost no dialogue. Dubbing it into English must have been a breeze. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-fewest-spoken-lines/350822/27 "2006-04-02T08:06:24Z")
> [@Snowboarder Bo](#): > > In Luc Besson’s first film [Le Dernier Combat](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0085426/), there is not a single word of spoken dialogue. > > I am a Besson fan, so my opinion is admittedly biased, but this is an excellent film, and tells quite an involved story, all without any spoken words. No captioning, either. > > I guess Guinness overlooks it because it’s not an American movie. Firstly, given that there are quite a lot of films with no spoken dialogue, Guinness would be unlikely to single this one out. Second, i’m not sure why Guinness would have a bias towards American movies, as you suggest. After all the record book was founded by the Managing Director of the Guinness brewery in Ireland, and while it has since been sold, its current parent company is a British-based corporation traded on the London Stock Exchange. ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-fewest-spoken-lines/350822/28 "2006-04-02T10:17:41Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Firstly, given that there are quite a lot of films with no spoken dialogue, Guinness would be unlikely to single this one out. Perhaps Wikipedia is wrong, then. Can anyone with a recent edition of the Guiness book check to see if _Silent Movie_ is still listed under this record? (Guiness no longer prints every record, but rather makes a new selection with each year’s edition, so it may be necessary to check several editions from the past few years.) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-fewest-spoken-lines/350822/29 "2006-04-02T14:03:14Z")
> [@psychonaut](#): > > Perhaps Wikipedia is wrong, then. Can anyone with a recent edition of the Guiness book check to see if _Silent Movie_ is still listed under this record? (Guiness no longer prints every record, but rather makes a new selection with each year’s edition, so it may be necessary to check several editions from the past few years.) The print edition became aimed at kids around 2000, one probably would have to look in one that’s not heavy on graphics like the kid-centric ones. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-fewest-spoken-lines/350822/30 "2006-04-02T14:07:48Z")
This isn’t a catagory listed at [the official Guinness World Records site](http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/), either. ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-fewest-spoken-lines/350822/31 "2006-04-02T22:26:09Z")
> [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#): > > **The Triplets of Belleville** has almost no dialogue. Dubbing it into English must have been a breeze. I’m pretty sure they didn’t even bother. There was a song in French at one point, and then there was the main song, which was in English (I don’t know if there was a French original version). I seem to recall that the written things were names (Champion) or in Latin (In Vino Veritas). In **Quest for Fire** , there was some conversation among the more advanced/human tribe, and the Neanderthal-like tribe had quite a few words, although they didn’t make sentences. I watched it in a class where we had to make a glossary of their words, which is why I remember it. ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-fewest-spoken-lines/350822/32 "2006-04-03T04:26:03Z")
I nominate the Bugs Bunny classic **What’s Opera, Doc**? Failing that, any of the Roadrunner cartoons. Okay, okay, they’re not movies as such. But they’re good. ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-fewest-spoken-lines/350822/33 "2006-04-03T09:40:07Z")
> [@Mirror Image egamI rorriM](#): > > I’m pretty sure they didn’t even bother. There was a song in French at one point, and then there was the main song, which was in English (I don’t know if there was a French original version). There was more than that, at least in the version I saw (in a theatre in Geneva in Spring 2003). There was a scene with excerpts of television or radio broadcasts from De Gaulle and possibly others. The main boy character also speaks at the end of the film; he said something like (translated roughly from the original French), “Is it over now?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-fewest-spoken-lines/350822.md?page=1)