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The Producers
on DVD (1968)
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| Starring: |
Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn, Kenneth Mars, Lee Meredith, Christopher Hewett, Andreas Voutsinas, Estelle Winwood, Renee Taylor, David Patch, William Hickey Barney Martin, Shimen Ruskin, Frank Campanella, Josip Elic, Madelyn Cates |
| Director: |
Mel Brooks |
| Studio: |
MOMENTUM PICTURES |
| Run time: |
84 mins |
| Certificate: |
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| User collections: |
Films you HAVE to see, My Favourite Films of all time (in no particular order), Best American Comedies, Best FREAKIN films EVR!!!, The Best Films., retro gold, OVERRATED / UNDERRATED |
| Genres: |
Comedy |
| Languages: |
English |
| Released: |
25/10/2004
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Brief synopsis of The Producers
An early Mel Brooks classic and regarded by many as one of his best. Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel), one-time King of Broadway, now living upon the crazy whims and cash of amorous old ladies meets Leo Bloom (Gene Wilder), a neurotic accountant. Together they plan to produce the biggest theatrical flop of all time - 'Springtime for Hitler', a gay romp about Adolf and Eva - and still make a fortune.
The scheme includes a hilarious combination of a zany ex-German soldier and his appalling play, the world's worst director and a guitar-playing hippie who gets the star role as Hitler. The play is terrible - it's immediate failure is guaranteed, or is it? When the curtain goes up the audience goes mad leaving Leo and Max with a very serious problem.
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Radio Times
This triumphantly tasteless affair was Mel Brooks's first feature and it fully deserves its status as a comedy classic. Zero Mostel plays the sweaty, down-on-his-luck Broadway impresario who links up with shy accountant Gene Wilder in a scam to fleece theatrical investors with the worst play of all time: a musical biopic of Adolf Hitler. The two leads are wonderful, as is Dick Shawn as the hippy star who takes the lead role in their production, and, while the gags flow freely throughout, it's the jaw-dropping numbers from Springtime for Hitler that cement the film's place in cinema history.
Time Out
Brooks' first feature, an absolutely hilarious and tasteless New York Jewish comedy about Broadway. Mostel plays a...
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