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7.1A conniving Broadway producer and his meek accountant plan to profit from charming wealthy old biddies to invest in an overbudget production, and then put on a sure-fire disaster, so nobody will ask for their money back — and what's more disastrous than a tasteless musical celebrating Adolf Hitler.
Cast
- Zero Mostel as Max Bialystock
- Gene Wilder as Leo Bloom
- Dick Shawn as Lorenzo St. DuBois (L.S.D.)
- Kenneth Mars as Franz Liebkind
- Estelle Winwood as "Hold Me Touch Me"
- Christopher Hewett as Roger De Bris
Themes
- nazi
- cheating
- dark comedy
- musical
- satire
- scam
- theatrical producer
- playwright
- sing sing
- broadway
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Mel Brooks
- Written by
- Mel Brooks
- Produced by
- Sidney Glazier
- Starring
- Gene Wilder Zero Mostel Dick Shawn
- Cinematography
- Joseph Coffey
- Edited by
- Ralph Rosenblum
- Music by
- John Morris
- Distributed by
- Embassy Pictures
- Release dates
- November 22, 1967 ( 1967-11-22 ) (Pittsburgh) March 18, 1968 ( 1968-03-18 ) (wide release)
- Running time
- 88 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $941,000
- Box office
- $1.6 million (Rentals)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Part of
- National Film Registry
- Genre
- musical film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Movement
- New Hollywood
- Director
- Mel Brooks
- Screenwriter
- Mel Brooks
- Cast member
- Frank Campanella
- Composer
- John Morris
- Narrative location
- New York City
- Filming location
- New York City
- Duration
- 88
- FilmAffinity ID
- 912835
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- publication date
- 2001-01-01
- title
- The Producers
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
- distributed by
- Embassy Pictures
- color
- black-and-white
- box office
- 1600000
- capital cost
- 941000
- derivative work
- The Producers
- different from
- The Producers
- set in period
- 1960s
- review score
- 7.5/10
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Encyclopedic overview
The Producers is a 1967 American satirical black comedy film written and directed by Mel Brooks, and starring Gene Wilder, Zero Mostel, Dick Shawn, and Kenneth Mars. The film is about a mild-mannered accountant and a con artist theater producer who scheme to get rich by fraudulently overselling shares in a stage musical designed to fail. To this end, they find a playscript celebrating Adolf Hitler and the Nazis and bring it to the stage. Because of this theme, The Producers was controversial from the start and received mixed reviews. It became a cult film, and found a fanatical positive critical reception later.
The Producers was Brooks's directorial debut. For the film, he won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. In 1996, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and placed eleventh on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs list. It was later adapted by Brooks and Thomas Meehan as a stage musical, which itself was adapted into a film again in 2005.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Producers” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.