The Producers (1967)
Storyline
Broadway producer, Max Bialystock and his accountant, Leo Bloom plan to make money by charming little old ladies to invest in a production many times over what it will actually cost, and then put on a sure-fire flop, so nobody will ask for their money back – and what can be a more certain flop than a tasteless musical celebrating Hitler.
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Cast
Renée Taylor, Gene Wilder, William Hickey, Mel Brooks, Kenneth Mars, Andréas Voutsinas, Bill Macy, Dick Shawn, Josip Elic, Shimen Ruskin, Zero Mostel, Lee Meredith, Estelle Winwood, Estelle Winwood, Christopher Hewett, David Patch, Barney Martin, Bernie Allen, Robert Paget, Tucker Smith, Frank Campanella, Anne Ives, Amelie Barleon, Lisa Kirk, Nell Harrison
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Reviews
100
Boston Globe
The one aspect of the original Producers that still stuns is the roaring, over-the-top, in-your-face thereness of its two lead performances.
100
Maniacally funny. It remains neck and neck with "Young Frankenstein" as Brooks' best film.
100
Chicago Sun-Times
This is one of the funniest movies ever made. To see it now is to understand that. To see it for the first time in 1968, when I did, was to witness audacity so liberating that not even "There's Something About Mary" rivals it.
90
Village Voice
However familiar, it delivers like a shorted slot machine.
80
Mel Brooks's first and funniest, a spoof of Broadway theater that has earned a deservedly devoted cult following.
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