Synopsis
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
- Zero MostelMax Bialystock
- Gene WilderLeo Bloom
- Estelle Winwood"Hold Me Touch Me"
- Christopher HewettRoger De Bris
- Kenneth MarsFranz Liebkind
- Lee MeredithUlla
- Renée TaylorEva Braun
- Andréas VoutsinasCarmen Ghia
- William HickeyThe Drunk
- David PatchGoebbels
Recommendations
- 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
New Times (L.A.)
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
TV Guide Magazine
Mel Brooks's first and funniest, a spoof of Broadway theater that has earned a deservedly devoted cult following. - 80
CineVue
The Producers is so effusively inappropriate and so damned funny it is one of the highest examples of low comedy.
