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Mel Brooks
Director -
Alan Heim
Sound Editor -
Ralph Rosenblum
Editor -
John Morris
Original Music Composer -
Felix Giglio
Music Supervisor -
Alan Johnson
Choreographer -
Charles Rosen
Production Design -
Michael Hertzberg
Assistant Director
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Jeff_34 6/23/2021 3:57:53 PM
**Greatest of all Time - GOAT - Best comedies.** Easily my number one. This film can be rewatched over and over again - always just as hilarious and timeless.
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adorablepanic 6/23/2021 3:58:36 PM
THE PRODUCERS (1967) - Mel Brooks' first feature film starts with the funniest opening credits sequence I've ever seen - a monetarily motivated rendezvous between a serial Broadway failure and a sexually insatiable octogenarian - and then proceeds to get even more hilarious as it progresses. The fabulous Zero Mostel somehow manages to chew scenery for breakfast, lunch and dinner while never overshadowing any of the other players (whose performances are all also appropriately broad, to be honest). Interestingly, were it not for a little known film by the name of THE GRADUATE (1967) casting while this film was going into production, we would have had Dustin Hoffman as the starry-eyed Nazi playwright. So Dustin went on to fame in another picture; Kenneth Mars ended up with a juicy role in just his second feature film; and Mel got to skewer the Third Reich and win an Academy Award for writing while doing it. Sometimes things just work out.
Mel Brooks
Singer in "Springtime for Hitler" (voice) (uncredited)Gene Wilder
Leo BloomWilliam Hickey
The DrunkEstelle Winwood
"Hold Me Touch Me"Barney Martin
GöringZero Mostel
Max BialystockFrank Campanella
The BartenderRenée Taylor
Eva Braun