Distributor:
Universal Home Entertainment Certificate: G | 124
minutes | 1967
Director: Mel Brooks
Available to buy Extras: Yes
ANYONE
IN IT WE KNOW?
Zero
Mostel, Gene Wilder, Kenneth Mars, Estelle Winwood, Renee Taylor, Dick
Shawn
WHAT’S
IT ABOUT THEN?
Washed
up Broadway producer Max
Bialystock teams up with his
high flying accountant with a
scheme to make a million by
deliberately producing a flop
Broadway show - they plan to
raise a million dollars for
their show only spend $60,000
mounting it and then when it
closes straightaway run off with
the remaining money of course
there show - a musical called
Springtime For Hitler turns out
to be a major success.
SO
IS IT ANY GOOD?
Not quite the laugh riot that it thinks it is The
Producers is still a very funny movie, director Mel Brook includes
plenty of his trademark looniness and the cast is fantastic, Kenneth
Mars as the play's author Franz Liebkind is a real treat.
The
original concept for the movie was very daring back in the sixties when
world war II was still quite fresh in many peoples minds and The
Producers is definitely a riot of bad taste that despite its age is more
than worthy of its cult status.
ANY
SPECIAL FEATURES?
Main
extra is a featurette looking at the making of the movie, as well as an
out-take from the Playhouse scene, there is also a photo gallery, a
sketch gallery and a statement from Peter Sellers (read by Paul Mazursky).
