Jeff_34
Greatest of all Time - GOAT - Best comedies.
Easily my number one.
This film can be rewatched over and over again - always just as hilarious and timeless.
The Producers
- Comedy
3/18/1968
89
PG
Hollywood Never Faced a Zanier Zero Hour!
A conniving Broadway producer and his meek accountant plan to profit from charming wealthy old biddies to invest in an overbudget production, and then put on a sure-fire disaster, so nobody will ask for their money back — and what's more disastrous than a tasteless musical celebrating Adolf Hitler.
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- Budget:
- $947,000
Videos
Cast
Zero MostelMax Bialystock- Gene WilderLeo Bloom
- Dick ShawnLorenzo St. DuBois (L.S.D.)
- Kenneth MarsFranz Liebkind
Estelle Winwood"Hold Me Touch Me"- Christopher HewettRoger De Bris
- Andréas VoutsinasCarmen Ghia
- Lee MeredithUlla
- Renée TaylorEva Braun
- Michael DavisProduction Tenor
John ZollerDrama Critic- Madlyn CatesConcierge
- Frank CampanellaThe Bartender
- Arthur RubinAuditioning Hitler
- Zale KesslerJason Green
- Bernie AllenAuditioning Hitler
Reviews
adorablepanic
THE PRODUCERS (1967) - Mel Brooks' first feature film starts with the funniest opening credits sequence I've ever seen - a monetarily motivated rendezvous between a serial Broadway failure and a sexually insatiable octogenarian - and then proceeds to get even more hilarious as it progresses. The fabulous Zero Mostel somehow manages to chew scenery for breakfast, lunch and dinner while never overshadowing any of the other players (whose performances are all also appropriately broad, to be honest). Interestingly, were it not for a little known film by the name of THE GRADUATE (1967) casting while this film was going into production, we would have had Dustin Hoffman as the starry-eyed Nazi playwright. So Dustin went on to fame in another pictu...