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The Producers (1968)

 -  Comedy  -  10 November 1968 (USA)
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Producers Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom make money by producing a sure-fire flop.

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Max Bialystock (as Zero)
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'L.S.D.' - Lorenzo St. DuBois
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Andréas Voutsinas ...
Carmen Ghia (as Andreas Voutsinas)
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Eva Braun (as Renee Taylor)
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Shimen Ruskin ...
The Landlord
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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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Once upon a time there was a Broadway producer...who met a "creative" but timid accountant. Together they concocted the most outrageous $1,000,000 scheme in the annals of Show Biz. See more »

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10 November 1968 (USA)  »

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Springtime for Hitler  »

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Budget:

$941,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$6,091 (USA) (7 June 2002)

Gross:

$111,866 (USA) (10 January 2003)
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The original screenplay had Franz Liebkind having Max and Leo swearing on The Siegfried Oath, accompanied by "The Ride of the Valkyries" and promising fealty to Siegfried, Richard Wagner, Friedrich Nietzsche, Paul von Hindenburg, The Graf Spee, The Blue Max, and Adolph "You know who." This explains Franz's outraged cry when entering Max's office, "You have broken the Siegfried Oath - you must die!" The Oath was restored in the musical version. See more »

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When Max buzzes for Ulla to come into the office to call for a cab, she appears on camera so quickly that she had to have been in the room already. See more »

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Max Bialystock: Max Bialystock is launching himself into little old lady land.
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Zero Mostel is listed in the closing credits simply as "Zero". See more »

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References The Idiot (1959) See more »

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"Beautiful Dreamer"
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Written by Stephen Foster
Performed by an auditioning Hitler
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Zany Mel Brooks comedy is over-the-top laugh riot...
20 January 2007 | by (U.S.A.) – See all my reviews

There are so many laughs in THE PRODUCERS (long before Mel Brooks lost his magic touch), that you'll be in tears by the time Brooks gets to his "Springtime for Hitler" routine. ZERO MOSTEL's early scenes with ESTELLE WINWOOD are hilarious enough, but he and GENE WILDER top themselves by the time you get to the frantic ending.

LEE MEREDITH is the curvy Ulla who can shake a mean hip and DICK SHAWN is the hilariously daffy Lorenzo St. DuBois (LSD for short), and everyone in the cast has a fine time delivering over-the-top performances in the spirit in which this sort of satire requires.

The story is simply that of a producer running short on cash who devises a scheme whereby if he produces the worst musical in the world, he can actually get his investment back and then some. He convinces his mild-mannered bookkeeper GENE WILDER to join him in the scheme and then the fun gets off to a great start.

The climactic "Springtime for Hitler" is just one of the delirious highlights (if politically incorrect by today's standards), and is probably the reason so many of the comments here resent the film and everything it stands for. But there's no getting away from it--the script is downright brilliant and original--winning an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay and numerous other writing awards including an award from The Writer's Guild of America.

Summing up: Mel Brooks at his wittiest.


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