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Bookmark this pageThe Producers (1967)
Director: Mel Brooks
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Brooks' first feature, an absolutely hilarious and tasteless New York Jewish comedy about Broadway. Mostel plays a producer determined to clean up by staging the worst flop in history, first making sure that it's over-backed by all of the rich widows hot for him. Mostel and Wilder (as his bumbling Portnovian accountant) ham outrageously, and some of the humour falls flat. But the all-time flop itself could serve as a definition of kitsch, its centrepiece being the number 'Springtime for Hitler', all tits, pretzels and beer steins, in the best tradition of gaudy American burlesque.Author: RM
Cast & crew
Director: Mel Brooks
Producer: Sidney Glazier
Cast: Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Kenneth Mars, Estelle Winwood, Renee Taylor, Dick Shawn, Lee Meredith full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 88 mins
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