The Producers Overview:

The Producers (1968) was a Comedy - Musical Film directed by Mel Brooks and produced by Joseph E. Levine, Jack Grossberg and Sidney Glazier.

The Producers was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996.

Academy Awards 1968 --- Ceremony Number 41 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best Supporting ActorGene WilderNominated
Best WritingMel BrooksWon
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The Producers (1967): Here's a Funny Story.....

By FlickChick on Oct 18, 2021 From A Person in the Dark

Maybe it's the state of affairs all around us, but I've been in a particularly sensitive mood these days...for so many days, it seems. Almost anything can make me bust out in tears - usually something beautiful; a song, a moment from a film, a memory. And when it comes to comedy, I simply can no lon... Read full article


The Producers (1967)

By Beatrice on Jul 17, 2019 From Flickers in Time

The Producers Directed by Mel Brooks Written by Mel Brooks 1967/US Crossbow Productions/Springtime Productions/U-M Productions Repeat viewing/Amazon Instant One of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die Like his later films, Mel Brooks’s film debut is totally over-the-top – and very f... Read full article


CMBA Outlaws Blogathon: The Producers (1967): It's Criminally Joyous

By FlickChick on Nov 15, 2018 From A Person in the Dark

This is my entry in the Classic Movie Blog Association's Outlaws Blogathon. Click here for more outrageous cinematic lawbreakers. Zero + Gene = Love They're adorable, they're hysterical, they're lovable. They're desperate con men and deliberate thieves. They're Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom and t... Read full article


Win Tickets to see “TCM Big Screen Classics: The Producers” (50th Anniversary) (Giveaway runs through May 19)

By Annmarie Gatti on Apr 27, 2018 From Classic Movie Hub Blog

Win tickets to see “The Producers” on the big screen!? In Select Cinemas Nationwide Sun June 3 and Wed June 6! “How could this happen? I was so careful. I picked the wrong play, the wrong director, the wrong cast. Where did I go right?” CMH continues into our?3rd year of our ... Read full article


The Producers (1968)

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Quotes from

Leo Bloom: [after a fight with Max] I'm sorry I called you "Fat, fat, fat".


Max Bialystock: Leo, he who hesitates is poor!


Max Bialystock: [reading post-show telegrams] "Congratulations! Hitler will run forever."


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Facts about

The name "Bialystock" is taken from the Polish city with the same name, from which Mel Brooks's ancestors had come. Until the Holocaust, Bialystock had been a major Eastern European Jewish city.
Dustin Hoffman was set to play Franz Liebkind, but declined when he got the part of Benjamin in The Graduate. Brooks only allowed Hoffman the chance to go off to the audition for the film because his wife (Anne Bancroft) was in it, and Brooks was familiar enough with the role of Benjamin to know Hoffman was utterly wrong for it (as written) and would never be cast.
Bill Macy's movie debut.
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