The Producers 2x DVD 1967 Special Edition 2 discs / Directed by Mel Brooks / Starring: Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Kenneth Mars

UPC 5060049140711

REGION 2 PAL DVD  

MADE IN EU

AUDIO: English 5.1

SUBTITLES: English HOH

Playtime: 85 minutes

English Summary:

The Producers is a 1967 American satirical black comedy film written and directed by Mel Brooks and starring Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn, and Kenneth Mars. The film is about a theater producer and his accountant who, as part of a scam, have to stage the worst stage musical they can create. They eventually base it on Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Because of this theme, The Producers was controversial from the start and received mixed reviews. It became a cult film and found a more positive critical reception later.

Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel) was once the toast of Broadway, but is now an aging, fraudulent, corruptible, and greedy Broadway producer who ekes out a hand-to-mouth existence romancing lascivious, wealthy elderly women in exchange for money for his next play. Accountant Leopold "Leo" Bloom (Gene Wilder), a nervous young man prone to hysterics, arrives at Max's office to audit his accounts and discovers a $2,000 discrepancy in the accounts of Max's last play. Max persuades Leo to hide the relatively minor fraud, and while shuffling numbers, Leo has a revelation—a producer can make a lot more money with a flop than a hit by overselling shares in the production, because no one will audit the books of a play presumed to have lost money. Max immediately puts this scheme into action. They will oversell shares on a massive scale and produce a play that will close on opening night, thus avoiding payouts and leaving the duo free to flee to Rio de Janeiro with the profits. Leo is afraid such a criminal venture will fail and they will go to prison, but Max eventually convinces him that his drab existence is no better than prison.

Cast:

 Zero Mostel as Max Bialystock

Gene Wilder as Leopold "Leo" Bloom
Dick Shawn as Lorenzo St. DuBois (L.S.D.)
Estelle Winwood as "Hold Me! Touch Me!"
Christopher Hewett as Roger De Bris
Kenneth Mars as Franz Liebkind
Lee Meredith as Ulla
Renée Taylor as Actress playing Eva BraunAndreas Voutsinas as Carmen Ghia
Bill Macy as Foreman of the jury
William Hickey as The Drunk in bar (credited as Bill Hickey)
David Patch as GoebbelsBarney Martin as Actor playing Hermann GöringMadlyn Cates as Concierge ("I'm not a madam!")
Shimen Ruskin as The Landlord
Frank Campanella as The Bartender
Josip Elic as Violinist
John Zoller as Drama Critic
Brutus Peck as Hot Dog Vendor
Mel Brooks as Singer in "Springtime for Hitler" (voiceover cameo, uncredited)

The Ladies

• Anne Ives
• Amelie Barleon
• Elsie Kirk
• Nell Harrison
• Mary Love