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
88
Hollywood Never Faced a Zanier Zero Hour!
Broadway producer, Max Bialystock and his accountant, Leo Bloom plan to make money by charming little old ladies to invest in a production many times over what it will actually cost, and then put on a sure-fire flop, so nobody will ask for their money back – and what can be a more certain flop than a tasteless musical celebrating Hitler.
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- Budget:
- $947,000
Videos
Cast
- Zero MostelMax Bialystock
- Gene WilderLeo Bloom
- Estelle Winwood"Hold Me Touch Me"
- Christopher HewettRoger De Bris
- Kenneth MarsFranz Liebkind
- Lee MeredithUlla
- Renée TaylorEva Braun
- Andréas VoutsinasCarmen Ghia
- William HickeyThe Drunk
- David PatchGoebbels
- Barney MartinGöring
- Madlyn CatesConcierge
- Shimen RuskinThe Landlord
- Frank CampanellaThe Bartender
- Josip ElicViolinist
- John ZollerDrama Critic
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...