The Producers

Unrated

4/23/20101h 29m

Premiere Release (US)

~ Hollywood Never Faced a Zanier Zero Hour! ~

Overview:

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.

Director:

Mel Brooks

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$947,000.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

nazi
cheating
dark comedy
musical
satire
scam
theatrical producer
playwright
sing sing
broadway
accountant
adolf hitler

Cast

Zero Mostel

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Max Bialystock

Gene Wilder

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Leo Bloom

Dick Shawn

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Lorenzo St. DuBois (L.S.D.)

Kenneth Mars

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Franz Liebkind

Estelle Winwood

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"Hold Me Touch Me"

Christopher Hewett

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Roger De Bris

Andréas Voutsinas

~ as ~

Carmen Ghia

Lee Meredith

~ as ~

Ulla

Renée Taylor

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Eva Braun

Michael Davis

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Production Tenor

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Reviews (2)

J
Jeff_34
Written 8 year(s) ago
10
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.
a
adorablepanic
Written 5 year(s) ago
9
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 picture; Kenneth Mars ended up with a juicy role in just his second feature film; and Mel got to skewer the Third Reich and win an Academy Award for writing while doing it. Sometimes things just work out.