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The Producers (1967) 7.6
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Metascore: 97/100
Reviews: 223 user | 73 critic | 5 from Metacritic.com Producers Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom make money by producing a sure-fire flop. Director:Mel BrooksWriter:Mel Brooks |
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Cast
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| Zero Mostel | ... |
Max Bialystock
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| Gene Wilder | ... | ||
| Dick Shawn | ... |
'L.S.D.' - Lorenzo St. DuBois
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Andréas Voutsinas | ... |
Carmen Ghia
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| Renée Taylor | ... |
Eva Braun
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| William Hickey | ... |
The Drunk
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Shimen Ruskin | ... |
The Landlord
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Frank Campanella | ... |
The Bartender
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Josip Elic | ... |
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Down-on-his-luck theatrical producer Max Bialystock is forced to romance rich old ladies to finance his efforts. When timid accountant Leo Bloom reviews Max's accounting books, the two hit upon a way to make a fortune by producing a sure-fire flop. The play which is to be their gold mine? "Springtime for Hitler." Written by Scott Renshaw <as.idc@forsythe.stanford.edu>
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10 November 1968 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Springtime for Hitler See more »Filming Locations:
Broadway Theatre - 1681 Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA See more »Box Office
Budget:
$941,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$6,091 (USA) (7 June 2002)Gross:
$111,866 (USA) (10 January 2003)Company Credits
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Max Bialystock: You miserable wretch! How dare you take the last penny out of a poor man's pocket?
The landlord: I have to. I'm a landlord.
Max Bialystock: [to God] Oh, Lord, hear my plea; destroy him! He maketh a blight on the land!
The landlord: [also to God] Don't listen to him; he's crazy.
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Written by Gus Edwards and Edward Madden
Performed by Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, and John Braden
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Did You Know?
Trivia
The name of the character Carmen Ghia (Andréas Voutsinas) comes from the Karmann Ghia, a Volkswagen coupe manufactured from 1955 to 1974. See more »Goofs
Max hands Leo a cigar. Leo has the cigar in one shot, and then the next shot of him, it's gone. See more »Quotes
The landlord: He who signs a lease must pay rent. That's the law.Max Bialystock: You miserable wretch! How dare you take the last penny out of a poor man's pocket?
The landlord: I have to. I'm a landlord.
Max Bialystock: [to God] Oh, Lord, hear my plea; destroy him! He maketh a blight on the land!
The landlord: [also to God] Don't listen to him; he's crazy.
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Crazy Credits
Zero Mostel is listed in the closing credits simply as "Zero". See more »Connections
Featured in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies (2004) See more »Soundtracks
"By The Light Of The Silvery Moon"Written by Gus Edwards and Edward Madden
Performed by Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, and John Braden
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I know more people who quote lines from THE PRODUCERS than from Shakespeare; make of that what you will! :-) That said, people seem to either love it or hate it, but most folks I know agree this nutzoid farce has, to quote groovy LSD (delightful Dick Shawn), "Love Power!" Writer/director Mel Brooks' insanely zany yet strangely sweet tale of down-on-his-luck Broadway producer Max Bialystock (the great Zero Mostel, who should have been nominated for an Oscar himself) who uses his powers of persuasion (and wheedling, and bellowing, and conning :-) to convince meek accountant Leo Bloom (justifiably Oscar-nominated Gene Wilder) to help him make a surefire Broadway flop that, if their nutty book-cooking scheme works, will land them in Rio -- or, if it doesn't work, Sing Sing. This screamingly funny, no-holds-barred comedy won Mel Brooks an Oscar for Best Screenplay and put the former YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS writer on the map as a filmmaker. Anyone trying to make a comedy depending on controversy and questionable taste for its laughs should watch THE PRODUCERS first and see how a master does it! For that matter, Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder ought to watch it again themselves; after the duds they were churning out for a while there, maybe they need a refresher course in how to be funny. (Hell, it might be as simple as them teaming up again; Wilder seemed able to temper Brooks's mania for poo-poo humor and Brooks seemed able to help Wilder to better balance out his trademark blend of shrill hysteria and sweetness.) Much as my family and I also loved the Broadway and film editions of the musical version co-written by Brooks and Thomas Meehan and starring the incomparable Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick (even though I felt that Broderick wasn't quite as good as Leo Bloom as Lane was as Max Bialystock. That said, together they have great buddy chemistry), the original is still the champ.