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DVD ~ Zero Mostel
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  • Actors: Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn, Kenneth Mars, Lee Meredith
  • Directors: Mel Brooks
  • Producers: Jack Grossberg, Joseph E. Levine
  • Format: Closed-captioned, Colour, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: MGM
  • DVD Release Date: 3 Dec 2002
  • Run Time: 88 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005JK45
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 97,684 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Mel Brooks' directorial debut remains both a career high point and a classic show-business farce. Hinging on a crafty plot premise, which in turn unleashes a joyously insane onstage spoof, The Producers is powered by a clutch of over-the-top performances, capped by the odd couple pairing of the late Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, making his screen debut.

Mostel is Max Bialystock, a gone-to-seed Broadway producer who spends his days wheedling cheques from his "investors", elderly women for whom Bialystock is only too willing to provide company. When wide-eyed auditor Leo Bloom (Wilder) comes to check the books, he unwittingly inspires the wild-eyed Max to hatch a sure-fire plan: sell 25,000 per cent of his next show, produce a deliberate flop, then abscond with the proceeds. Unfortunately for the producers (but fortunately for us), their candidate for failure is Springtime for Hitler, a Brooksian conceit that envisions what Goebbels might have accomplished with a little help from Busby Berkeley.

Truly startling during its original 1968 release, The Producers does show signs of age in some peripheral scenes that make merry at the expense of gays and women. But the show's nifty cast (notably including the late Dick Shawn as LSD, the space cadet that snags the musical's title role, and Kenneth Mars as the helmeted playwright) clicks throughout, and the sight of Mostel fleecing his marks is irresistibly funny. Add Wilder's literally hysterical Bloom, and it's easy to understand the film's exalted status among late-60s comedies. --Sam Sutherland, Amazon.com

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The funniest film of the 20th Century, 24 Mar 2002
By Penguin Egg (London, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Producers [VHS] [1967] (VHS Tape)
This film has lost none of its charm since it was made over a quarter of a
century ago. This remains Mel Brooks' funniest and finest film. It is about
two Broadway producers who borrow money heavily in order to put on a
Broadway show that will flop. If they borrow more than they spend, they keep
the rest of the money and make a fortune. The hoped for flop is a musical
based on the life of Hitler, called Springtime for Hitler. It all goes
hilariously wrong when the musical becomes an unintentional success. The
performances are spot-on. Zero Morstel barnstorms his way through every
scene and Gene Wilder was never better as the nervous accountant turned
producer who falls foul of Morstel's greedy ambitions. Kenneth Marrs'
performance as the deranged ex-Nazi burns itself into your brain and has to
be one of the funniest turns I have ever seen. Brooks keeps the pace frantic
but steady. He never lets the pace drag but he never lets it get too over
the top. The performances are manic but the actors never ham it up for the
camera. Even the sheer bad taste of the musical sequence of Springtime for
Hitler is handled with skill, and you will never find a funnier scene in
cinema. This has to be one of the funniest films of the 20th Century.
Watching this, you will be laughing along with it scene by scene until the
very end, and afterwards you will be humming the theme tune to Springtime to
Hitler.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Great movie, shame about the cuts., 6 Sep 2003
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This review is from: The Producers [VHS] [1967] (VHS Tape)
This is of course a great movie, probably the greatest comedy film of all time. However I've refrained from giving it 5 stars because there are some cuts in this edition. At the beginning in the conversation between Max and Leo, there is an awful piece of editing -what's been omitted or why isn't clear in this first case, but there is some dialogue missing.
Also, towards the end when they're in the theatre, some dialogue involving Kenneth Mars - "...with people it is male to female. With electricity it is strange, it is male to male", and his attempts to use a detonator, are missing from this edition. One can perhaps understand as it the above could be construed as being a negative allusion to homosexuality (maybe on the part of the author). On the other hand, these words are coming out of the mouth of a demented nazi, who talks to his "burds", and is the author of a play called "Springtime for Hitler". These omissions aside, this is great value for money.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Mel Brooks at his best, 10 Mar 2001
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This review is from: The Producers [VHS] [1967] (VHS Tape)
A musical called "Springtime for Hitler"? Believe me there is no way I could adequately describe how side-splittingly funny that particular sequence is. The highlight in a film that has more than its fair share of them. Watch it with someone who has never seen it before and see their jaws drop in disbelief. That alone makes buying a copy well worth it.
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