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The Producers unfolds in a barrage of broad gags and Borscht Belt groaners, but the “Springtime” sequence—with its fey, crooning Hitler and the kick line of menacing Aryans—marks the moment...
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A brash, vulgar, wildly energetic and shamelessly provocative comedy romp that launched Mel Brooks as a film director, Gene Wilder as a popular comic actor, and grossly expanded the latitude extended to comedians in cinema, establishing radically poor taste as an acceptable marketing strategy in mainstream entertainment. Though The Producers is fon...
Boundaries of free expression were getting pushed outward all over the place in 1968. The I Am Curious films of Vilgot Sjöman that I discussed recently on a Main Episode podcast with Scott Nye and James McCormick eventually created a huge court case that wound up overturning obscenity laws in the USA. Bonnie and Clyde and The Graduate (covered on C...
I certainly won’t dispute the fact that a lot of people still find The Producers to be an uproariously funny and delightfully enjoyable movie, and not all of them are old-timers harboring fond memories of watching Mel Brooks comedies as teens or young adults in decades past. I was fortunate enough to be a teenager in the audience when Blazing Saddl...
It was written and directed by Mel Brooks, and stars Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn, and Kenneth Mars. The film is about a con artist theater producer and his accountant who scheme to get rich by fraudulently overselling interests in a stage musical purposely designed to fail.
Apr 19, 2011 · Ten years ago today, "The Producers" opened on Broadway. The show starred Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick in roles originated by Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder in Mel Brooks' 1968 film.
Aug 14, 2002 · The question hangs over the shiny new print of Mel Brooks’ “The Producers,” the 1968 comedy that spawned the recent Tony Award-winning musical and won an Oscar for best screenplay.
Dec 17, 2005 · Mel Brooks' 1968 movie classic The Producers became a Broadway smash. Now comes a new big-screen version that preserves the original's humor and adds the stage show's musical elements.
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The Producers is a 2005 American musical comedy film directed by Susan Stroman and written by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan based on the eponymous 2001 Broadway musical, which in turn was based on Brooks's 1967 film of the same name. The film stars an ensemble cast led by Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Uma Thurman, Will Ferrell, Gary Beach ...
