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Bookmark this pageThe Silence of the Hams (1993)
Director: Ezio Greggio
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
The US debut of Italy's favourite television comedian, Ezio Greggio, in which trainee FBI agent Jo Dee Fostar (Zane) encounters characters called Sharon Bone, Dr Animal Cannibal Pizza (an incarcerated psychiatrist who ate his patients in a pizzeria after closing time), and Inspector Putrid, is a wholly redundant exercise. The vogue for this flimflam is to forget pointed satire and instead recycle old plots in knowingly cack-handed fashion, along with some blunt physical comedy.Author: NB
Cast & crew
Director: Ezio Greggio
Producer: Ezio Greggio, Julie Corman
Cast: Billy Zane, Ezio Greggio, Dom DeLuise, Charlene Tilton, Joanna Pacula, Martin Balsam, Phyllis Diller, Shelley Winters full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 81 mins
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