Is it The Naked Prey?
That’s it! Thanks.
Great, many thanks! Oh, yeah, :smack: Cornel Wilde, whatever happened to him? Among the living?
He’s been gone since 1989. IMDB page here.
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.
The Triplets of Belleville has almost no dialogue. Dubbing it into English must have been a breeze.
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.
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.
This isn’t a catagory listed at the official Guinness World Records site, either.
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.
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.
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?”