The Producers

The Producers

Director: Mel Brooks Cast: Zero Mostel
Zero Mostel
, Gene Wilder
Gene Wilder
, Kenneth Mars
Kenneth Mars
, Dick Shawn
Dick Shawn
Mel Brooks
The Producers

The Producers

Director: Mel Brooks Cast: Zero Mostel
Zero Mostel
, Gene Wilder
Gene Wilder
, Kenneth Mars
Kenneth Mars
, Dick Shawn
Dick Shawn
Mel Brooks

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Overview

Theatrical producer Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel) was once the toast of Broadway. Now he lives in his seedy office, cadging cash contributions from wealthy old ladies in exchange for sexual favors. Even worse, he's reduced to wearing a cardboard belt. Max's new accountant, Leo Bloom (Gene Wilder), the soul of honesty, suggests that Max produce a hit to try to recoup his losses, but Max knows that it's too late for that. Offhandedly, Leo muses that, if Max found investors for a flop, he could legally keep all the extra money. Suddenly, Max's eyes light up -- and in that moment, Leo Bloom is gloriously corruptible. "I want everything I've ever seen in the movies!" cries Leo as Max embraces him. Together, Max and Leo conspire to select the worst play, the worst playwright, the worst director, and the worst actor to collaborate on their guaranteed flop. That play is Springtime for Hitler, "a delightful romp...with Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun." The playwright is Franz Liebkind (Kenneth Mars), an unreconstructed Nazi who, in drunken delirium, insists that Hitler was a better painter than Churchill -- "He could paint an entire apartment in one afternoon, two coats!" The director is pompous transvestite Roger De Bris (Christopher Hewett), who is preparing to go to a costume party garbed as Marie Antoinette when Max and Leo come calling ("Max, Max, he's wearing a dress"). And the star, selected after extensive auditions, is hippie-freak Lorenzo St. DuBois (Dick Shawn) -- "L.S.D." for short. At the end of several weeks, Max has sold 25,000 percent of the show; and, as a finishing touch, Max bribes the opening-night critics for a favorable review, knowing full well that such a gesture is the kiss of death. The curtains part, and Springtime for Hitler opens with perhaps the most tasteless production number in the history of films. At the end of this extravaganza, the audience sits in dumbfounded silence. Gleefully, Max and Leo repair to a corner bar to celebrate their failure. But then.... The first directorial effort of Mel Brooks, The Producers didn't do so well on its first release, but since that time it has taken its place as one of the all-time great movie comedies.

Product Details

Release Date: 04/13/2021
UPC: 0738329242336
Original Release: 1968
Rating: PG
Source: Kl Studio Classics
Language: English
Time: 1:28:00
Sales rank: 1,305

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Zero Mostel Max Bialystock
Gene Wilder Leo Bloom
Kenneth Mars Franz Liebkind
Dick Shawn LSD
Christopher Hewett Roger DeBris
Estelle Winwood Hold Me, Touch Me
Lee Meredith Ulla
Renee Taylor Eva Braun
William Hickey The Drunk
David Patch Doc Goebbels
John Zoller Critic
Madelyn Cates Woman at Window
Frank Campanella Bartender
Arthur Rubin Auditioning Hitler
Zale Kessler Auditioning Hitler
Bernie Allen Auditioning Hitler
Rusty Blitz Auditioning Hitler
Anthony Gardell Auditioning Hitler
Mary Love Old Lady
Amelie Barleon Old Lady
Nell Harrison Old Lady
Elsie Kirk Old Lady
Barney Martin German Officer in Play
Diana Eden Showgirl
Tucker Smith Lead Dancer
David Evans Lead Dancer
Josip Elic Violinist
Andréas Voutsinas Carmen Ghia
Anne Ives une vieille dame
Shimen Ruskin le propriétaire
Michael Davis Production Tenor
Mel Brooks Actor
Frank Shaw Actor
Margery Beddow Dancer
John Morris Composer

Technical Credits
Mel Brooks Director,Screenwriter
Sidney Glazier Producer
Joseph E. Levine Executive Producer
Willard W. Goodman Sound Effects
Alan Heim Sound Effects
Jack Grossberg Producer
Alfa-Betty Olsen Casting
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