Jeff_34
2/10/2017
10.0
**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.
Feature1968·89m·7.1
The Producers
Hollywood Never Faced a Zanier Zero Hour!
Comedy
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.
Cast
Zero Mostel
Max Bialystock
Gene Wilder
Leo Bloom
Dick Shawn
Lorenzo St. DuBois (L.S.D.)
Kenneth Mars
Franz Liebkind
Estelle Winwood
"Hold Me Touch Me"
Christopher Hewett
Roger De Bris
Andréas Voutsinas
Carmen Ghia
Lee Meredith
Ulla
Renée Taylor
Eva Braun
Michael Davis
Production Tenor
John Zoller
Drama Critic
Madlyn Cates
Concierge
Frank Campanella
The Bartender
Arthur Rubin
Auditioning Hitler
Zale Kessler
Jason Green
Bernie Allen
Auditioning Hitler
Rusty Blitz
Auditioning Hitler
Anthony Gardell
Auditioning Hitler
Mary Love
Lady
Amelie Barleon
Lady
Details
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Languages
- German, English
- Budget
- $947,000
- Revenue
- —
- Age rating
- —
- Quality
- 4K UHD · HDR10 · Dolby Vision
- Production
- Crossbow ProductionsSpringtime ProductionsU-M ProductionsAVCO Embassy Pictures
Crew
Director
Mel Brooks
Writers
Mel Brooks, Herbert Hartig, Mel Brooks
John Morris
Original Music Composer
Ralph Rosenblum
Editor
Charles Rosen
Production Design
Joseph F. Coffey
Director of Photography
Gene Coffin
Costume Design
Gallery
Reviews
adorablepanic
4/10/2020
9.0
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.
