The Producers (1968 film)

The Producers is a 1968 film about producers Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom who make money by producing a sure-fire flop.

Written and directed by Mel Brooks.

Hollywood Never Faced a Zanier Zero Hour!

Max Bialystock

• That's it, baby, when you've got it, flaunt it, flaunt it!

• That's exactly why we want to produce this play. To show the world the true Hitler, the Hitler you loved, the Hitler you knew, the Hitler with a song in his heart.

• How could this happen? I was so careful. I picked the wrong play, the wrong director, the wrong cast. Where did I go right?

Singers

• Springtime for Hitler and Germany,
  Deutschland is happy and gay.
  We're marching to a faster pace:
  Look out, here comes the master race!
  Springtime for Hitler and Germany,
  Winter for Poland and France.
  Springtime for Hitler and Germany,
  Come on, Germans, go into your dance.

• Don't be stupid! Be a smartie!
  Come and join the Nazi Party!
  • Actually sung by Mel Brooks

Others

• Leo Bloom: [reading the title of the play for the first time] "Springtime for Hitler" a gay romp with Adolf and Eva at Berchtesgaden... Wow...

• Franz Liebekind: I am the author. You are the audience. I outrank you!

Dialogue

Max: It's practically a love letter to Hitler!

Leo: This won't run a week.

Max: A week?! Are you nuts? This play's gotta close on Page 4.

Cast

• Zero Mostel - Max Bialystock
• Gene Wilder - Leo Bloom
• Kenneth Mars - Franz Liebkind
• Estelle Winwood - Hold me, Touch me
• Renee Taylor - Eva Braun
• Christopher Hewett - Roger De Bris
• Lee Meredith - Ulla
• William Hickey- The drunk
• Andreas Voutsinas - Carmen Ghia
• David Patch - Goebbels
• Dick Shawn - Lorenzo St. DuBois (L.S.D.)
• Barney Martin - Goring