The Producers (Deluxe Edition)
by Mel Brooks
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Actor: Anne Ives, Christopher Hewett, Gene Wilder, William Hickey, Zero MostelDirector: Mel Brooks
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); German (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 88 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-12-13
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of The Producers (Deluxe Edition)
DVD Review: The Mel Brooks classic that started it all!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
The original Producers,in a Deluxe Edition 2 DVD with BOTH Standard and Widescreen versions of the film and great extras! A must for the Mel Brooks fan or classic comedy in general! Recommended! A+DVD Review: One of the best comedies ever made
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the best comedies made. Mostel and Wilder are super together. This is a film you'll never tire of rewatching.DVD Review: 3 stars out of 4
Summary: 3 Stars
The Bottom Line:
The Producers features one absolutely hilarious, brilliant sequence (Springtime for Hitler) surrounded by far less amusing and severely dated material; the strength of that one scene is just enough to recommend it, but it's not a great movie.
DVD Review: Mel Brooks first movie is a delightful 1960's Romp
Summary: 5 Stars
Newcomer Gene Wilder in his first hit movie plays the foil (fool?) to Zero Mostel's cagey, corrupt and over-the-hill broadway producer.
For fans of Mel Brooks you see the first glimpses of his movie madness and genius. Brooks pens some of the most absurd and hilarious songs ever written, and directs over the tops performances by each and every cast member.
Some might say the movie is perhaps a bit "dated" for younger audiences, but that didn't seem to deter laughs from the teens and youngsters at my viewing. I guess zany comedies reach across the generations.
DVD Review: A must-have for your video library
Summary: 5 Stars
"The Producers", the original, is a must-have for your video library! Classic performances by Gene Wilder, Zero Mostel and Dick Shaun make this film, which enjoyed a sort of cult classic following until they made it into a Broadway musical, a completely satisfying experience for the viewer interested in laughing, thinking and singing along. When I first saw the film back in the late '70s, I was struck dumb by the musical within the story, until I realized what irony was, that is. Mel Brookes at his very best, working with the very best, nurturing the very best. The stereotypes, the caricatures, and the very real situations presented will leave a lifelong impression on you. Everytime you hear the term "concierge", for instance, you will immediately start the routine, "I'm the concierge. My husband used to be the concierge but he's dead, so now I'm the concierge..." It's been 20 years since I've seen that scene, but it has remained in my "filing cabinet" of memorable lines ever since!
Don't hesitate to buy this movie! You'll laugh your patooty off, break out into song at work, and will enjoy this movie that has withstood the test of time. Hey, they didn't turn "Showgirls" into a Broadway musical for a reason, right?
Description of The Producers (Deluxe Edition)
A "startling, stunning, outrageous [and] breathtaking debut" (Los Angeles Times) from acclaimed writer/director Mel Brooks (Young Frankenstein, Spaceballs), this Oscar?-winning* comedy combines "pure pell-Mel lunacy [and] wild, ad-lib energy [into an] uproariously funny" (Time) film! Low-rent Broadway producer Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel) and his high-strung accountant, Leo Bloom (Gene Wilder), discover that, with the help of a few gullible investors, they can make more money on a flop than on a hit! Armed with the worst show ever written ("Springtime for Hitler") and an equally horrific cast, this double-dealing duo is banking on disaster. But when their sure-to-offend musical becomes a surprise smash hit, they find themselves in the middleof a Broadway blitzkrieg! *1968: Original ScreenplayMel Brooks's 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 checks 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 percent 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
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