Movie Cosmos - The Producers

Description:

Broadway producer Max Bialystock and his accountant, Leo Bloom, plan to make money by charming wealthy old biddies to invest in a production many times over the actual cost, and then put on a sure-fire flop, so nobody will ask for their money back – and what can be a more certain flop than a tasteless musical celebrating Hitler.

Top 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

Andréas Voutsinas

As Carmen Ghia

Lee Meredith

As Ulla

Renée Taylor

As Eva Braun

Michael Davis

As Production Tenor

John Zoller

As Drama Critic

Madlyn Cates

As Concierge

Frank Campanella

As The Bartender

Arthur Rubin

As Auditioning Hitler

Zale Kessler

As Jason Green

Bernie Allen

As Auditioning Hitler

Rusty Blitz

As Auditioning Hitler

Anthony Gardell

As Auditioning Hitler

Mary Love

As Lady

Amelie Barleon

As Lady

Nell Harrison

As Lady

Elsie Kirk

As Lady

Anne Ives

As Lady

Barney Martin

As Göring

David Patch

As Goebbels

Diana Eden

As Showgirl

Tucker Smith

As Lead Dancer

David Evans

As Lead Dancer

Josip Elic

As Violinist

Shimen Ruskin

As The Landlord

William Hickey

As The Drunk

Brutus Peck

As Hot Dog Vendor

Mel Brooks

As Singer in "Springtime for Hitler" (voice) (uncredited)

Bill Macy

As Jury Foreman (uncredited)

Linda Gillen

As Sax Player (uncredited)

Robert Paget

As Auditioning Hitler (uncredited)

Top Crew >

Mel Brooks

Director, Songs, Lyricist, Writer

Sidney Glazier

Producer

John Morris

Original Music Composer, Conductor

Ralph Rosenblum

Editor

Charles Rosen

Production Design

Norman Blagman

Songs

Herbert Hartig

Lyricist

Michael Hertzberg

Assistant Director

Elinor Bunin

Title Designer

Alan Johnson

Choreographer

Felix Giglio

Music Supervisor

Louis A. Stroller

Unit Manager

Alfa-Betty Olsen

Casting Director

Robert Porter

Production Supervisor

Martin Danzig

Second Assistant Director

Betty Todd

Script Supervisor

Connie Schoenberg

Production Secretary

Edward R. Brown

Camera Operator

James Dalton

Set Decoration

Morton Novak

Gaffer

Edward Engels

Grip

Joe Williams Sr.

Construction Manager

Shelly Bartolini

Scenic Artist

Eli Aharoni

Carpenter

Willard W. Goodman

Production Sound Mixer

Michael Breddan

Assistant Editor

Alan Heim

Sound Editor

Celia Bryant

Wardrobe Master

Robert Buchman

Producer's Assistant

Jack Grossberg

Associate Producer

Joseph F. Coffey

Director of Photography

Gene Coffin

Costume Design

Irving Buchman

Makeup Artist

Reviews:

Jeff_34 (10/10)

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.

2017-02-10

adorablepanic (9/10)

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.

2020-04-10