The Producers

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Date: January 01, 1968 to December 31, 1968
Dates Note: 1968
Country of Origin: United States
Place of Origin: United States
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Color: Color
Silent: No
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Film Series/Exhibition Title: 
Mark Morris Presents: In the Age of Pepperland
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A has-been Broadway producer, Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel at his seediest best), has a great scheme—he’ll bilk his investors out of dough by producing a surefire failure. Bialystock and his CPA Leo Bloom (Gene Wilder) take on a goose-stepping tribute to Hitler, a musical no less, with spaced-out hippie Lorenzo St. DuBois, a.k.a. L.S.D. (Dick Shawn), as the Führer “with a song in his heart.” For his first film, Mel Brooks had the good sense to lead with bad taste. This highly vulgar satire definitely stirred up a furor of its own.

Authors/Roles: 
Steve Seid

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