Title: Cult Classic That Remains as Funny Today as Ever It Was
Review: When first released in 1967, THE PRODUCERS bombed severely, despite winning an Oscar for Best Screenplay. Now it is justifiably recognized as a cult comedy, one whose images, performance, and dialogue live on in the mind of those fortunate enough to see it. Zero Mostel is just brilliant as the crooked Max Bialystock, muttering "Where did I go right?" when he discovers to his cost that he has produced a Broadway hit. Gene Wilder makes a suitably neurotic sidekick, screaming for his blue blanket. There are a clutch of wonderful cameo roles, from Kenneth Mars' Hitler-loving, pigeon-fancying actor, to Christopher Hewett's director, putting a big 'C' into Camp, and Estelle Winwood as one of the old ladies willingly seduced by Bialystock. Add to that the film's brilliantly staged musical number of "Springtime for Hitler," complete with dancing Hitlers, machine guns and gay SS officers, and you really can't not watch it.
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