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	The Producers (1968 film) Summary
		The Producers is a 1968 feature-length comedy film set in New York City, in which two con men (Bialystock and Bloom) attempt to cheat theatre 'angels' (investors) out of their investment money.
		The film was adapted by its writer/director, Mel Brooks, int...
		The Producers (1968 film): The Producers (1968 film) Summary
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	The Producers Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		When that movie, The Producers, opened in 1968, it was not exactly met by a grateful public, but then Peter Sellers saw it and fell in love, going so far as to place an ad in Variety to sing its praises.
		She films the musical the way the genre was meant to be filmed.
		Though it's apples and oranges—the 1968 film was a tightly constructed comedy of character, while the 2005 version is a full-blown musical featuring nearly 20 songs—it's hard not to make comparisons.
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	The Producers
		This film adaptation is based on the 2001 Broadway smash thatwon a record-breaking 12 Tony Awards.
		Producer Max Bialystock (Lane) and accountant Leo Bloom (Broderick) realize that they can reap a huge profit on a Broadway flop, and set out to find the worst musical they can.
		The primary reason for the film was the capture the performances of Lane, Broderick, Gary Beach (Man of the Century, Hell Mountain), and Roger Bart (The Stepford Wives, The Insider) on film.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/producers.html (497 words)

	sonic-cinema.com: The Producers::film review
		Confession: Iâve seen the classic 1968 Mel Brooks comedy that spawned the hit Broadway musical- with music and lyrics by Brooks- that this film is based on, though Iâve never seen the musical itself.
		Itâs not the laugh-out-loud riot you expect from Brooks- at his best- and the ace comic cast this film has, but itâs a vulgar and delightful musical comedy that is a tribute to Brooks, whose irreverent wit is desperately missing from the screen nowadays.
		Any reservations I had about the film before- and there were many since I wasn’t a fan of the original film- were gone from the first song on.
	www.sonic-cinema.com /film_reviews_individual/135/the-producers (297 words)

	Producers Broadway
		Based on the Academy Award-winning 1968 film of the same name, The Producers is the story of down-on-his-luck theatrical producer Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom, a mousy accountant.
		The Producers is a hilarious, wacked-out comedy classic about a scheming Broadway producer.
		The Producers is a hilarious, wacked-out comedy classic about a rapacious Broadway producer who plans to stage a guaranteed flop -- and then pocket the backers' money when the production fails.
	www.directbroadway.com /producers-broadway.htm (224 words)

	The Producers - Film Reviews - Film - Entertainment - smh.com.au
		The original film, released in 1968, was more like a film of a play, in which there was another play that was really a musical.
		In the original film, written and directed by Mel Brooks, washed up Broadway impresario Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel) learns from his timid accountant Leopold Bloom (Gene Wilder) that he could make more money with a flop than a hit, provided he can guarantee the play is a failure.
		The 1968 film, by contrast, was a flop, but it made Mel Brooks.
	www.smh.com.au /news/film-reviews/the-producers/2006/01/12/1136956286975.html (431 words)

	Producers, The (2005): Reviews
		The film falls short even as a record of Broderick and Lane's crowd-pleasing rapport: Both have done the show so many times that every scrap of life is gone.
		Whereas the original film is gleefully crass and energetically paced, the movie musical, weighing in at a robust two-plus hours, is bloated and self-satisfied.
		The Producers is nightmarish, in its febrile way, a head-bangingly primitive version of an overrated Broadway show that grew out of a clumsy 1968 movie with an inflated reputation.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/producers2005 (1531 words)

	The Producers (2005) - Review and Analysis by Jason Pitt for Critical-Film.com
		The film adaptation of the stage play, which is itself an adaptation of the original 1968 film, has a lot going for it, a great cast, some brilliant moments, but it's just too long.
		However, I'm certain there are many subtle differences, and perhaps some more drastic changes, as the original film was produced in 1968, and the 2005 remake has some very suggestive dialogue scattered throughout the film.
		The musical itself is perhaps the films strongest asset, it begins in horrifyingly offensive fascist, whoops, I mean fashion.
	www.critical-film.com /reviews/P/producers/Producers.html (624 words)

	Crimson Celluloid :: Resident DVDvil :: The Producers
		As an unabashed fans of most of his films (I can't say all after seeing Dracula: Dead and Loving It), and especially that of his 1968 film, The Producers, the thought of turning it into a Broadway Musical was an inspired one.
		But even better, the decision was made to produce… well… The Producers, as a movie, of the musical, of the movie, and having Broderick and Lane reprise their roles.
		The Producers was as underrated as a movie as it was hailed as a Broadway Musical, deserving the same level of accolades it received on the Great White Way.
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	The Producers
		Mel Brooks: The Producers Composed by Mel Brooks.
		Counted as but one among the many gems of this film version–the principles are leading talents (they sing, they dance, they act, they have perfect comedic timing), their love of these roles and affection for each other has only grown since Broadway days, and it shows, from opening scene to grand finale.
		The cast and crew are aware this is a film for the ages.
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	THE PRODUCERS (1968) - DELUXE EDITION DVD
		A seminal year for film, 1968: Once Upon a Time in the West, Rosemary's Baby, Planet of the Apes, Night of the Living Dead, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Barbarella, If...
		But The Producers has an archaic ugliness to it that feels like the equivalent of hanging out at the old folks home with the resident deaf racist.
		Brooks is a genuinely awful director when he lacks a template to lampoon, thus here we get medium shots filmed on echoing soundstages that nonetheless manage, somehow, to convey suffocating claustrophobia.
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	Slant Magazine - Film Review: The Producers
		Yet more astounding is the absence of its trademark rambunctious rhythm, a facet so blatantly underserved that the film cries out for a vivacious, go-for-broke stylist like Julie Taymor or even (dare I say it?) Rob Marshall, either of whom might have infused the action with some much-needed zany dynamism.
		And given the persistent structural inertia, it's hardly surprising to discover that the film's finest sequence turns out to be the wholly stage-bound "Springtime For Hitler," which erupts with absurdly giddy pageantry.
		Time and again, however, The Producers botches its transition from the boards to the multiplex, whether it be by excising Bialystock's opening ditty "King Of Broadway" (crucial for establishing the character's inherent shadiness) or by attempting to generate madcap energy by dialing the volume up to 11.
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	The Producers
		So if Brooks directed three of the funniest movies ever, and The Producers is the best of the lot, then the climb is mighty steep for the remake, which is actually a film version of the Broadway musical based on the original film.
		Directed by Susan Stroman (who also did the Broadway version), the most recent Producers is a clone of a clone, and what it adds in song and dance it loses in brevity and, as is so often the case, wit.
		The new Producers often trips over its own feet, which is a total contrast from the clipped, economical pace of the original.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/movies/articles/1225producers1225.html (667 words)

	CNN.com - Review: 'Producers' puts Broadway on film - Dec 16, 2005
		Anyone who hasn't been living under a rock knows that the original film "The Producers," written and directed by Mel Brooks in 1968, moved to Broadway in 2001 as a musical and won a record 12 Tony Awards.
		Susan Stroman is making her film debut as a director by returning this movie to the big screen, but this time out it's based on the Broadway musical she directed with such success.
		Shot at the new state-of-the-art film facility at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Stroman has stayed so close to her Broadway version she might as well have dragged the proscenium arch along with her across the Brooklyn Bridge.
	www.cnn.com /2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/16/review.producers/index.html (733 words)

	SacTicket // DVD/Video
		Although "The Producers" is now the title of the biggest hit on Broadway and the winner of an unprecedented 12 Tony Awards, for many years before its re-creation as a stage musical comedy it was a film whose admirers viewed it as one of the funniest and most outrageous comedies in American movie history.
		Brooks' recollections about the creation, production and impact of "The Producers" are included in a well-made, one-hour-plus documentary that accompanies the just-released DVD of his movie (MGM Home Entertainment, $24.98, not rated), along with a photo gallery, a deleted scene and other extras.
		The writer-director explains that the Bialystock character is based on a theatrical producer for whom Brooks had worked when he was 16 and who really did sleep with little old ladies.
	www.sacticket.com /static/movies/dvd_video/producers.html (951 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: The Producers (xhtml)
		When Thurman refers to herself in the third person as "Ulla" and describes the high standards of her low conduct, she achieves a kind of joy of performance that deserves to be seen without Meredith standing just offstage tapping her toe.
		The new songs written by Brooks embodied the film's original spirit, and if he added a few touches, like little old ladies choreographed with their walkers, they were transgressive in the same outrageous way.
		There is a moment when Max Bialystock, as the con-man producer, promises wealth and triumph to Leo Bloom, the nervous accountant who has cooked up their crooked financing, and a fountain erupts on cue behind him.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051215/REVIEWS/51213003/1023 (735 words)

	The Producers (1968)
		The Producers never attempts to be anything other than a farce, so farcical acting makes total sense.
		The Producers appears in both an aspect ratio of approximately 1.85:1 and in a fullscreen version on this double-sided DVD-14; the widescreen image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
		Starting with Max’s red robe at the beginning of the film, the hues generally came across as nicely vivid and distinctive.
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	Producers, The (re-release) (2002): Reviews
		The one aspect of the original Producers that still stuns is the roaring, over-the-top, in-your-face thereness of its two lead performances.
		To see it for the first time in 1968, when I did, was to witness audacity so liberating that not even "There's Something About Mary" rivals it.
		It's different than many of Brooks' later films since he doesn't "hit you over the head" with the jokes, but allows some shards of subtlety to creep into the dialogue.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/producers (477 words)

	The Producers (2005)
		Are the screenplays for this and the 1968 Producers film exactly the same?
		Critiquing the Producers is difficult, as I was laughing so hard and having so much fun watching it the whole way through, it was difficult to concentrate.
		While the Producers is not for everyone, those who enjoy big and booming sing-along musical numbers, the goofy and sometimes controversial humour of Mel Brooks, and the antics of a wonderful cast of actors, will love the Producers.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0395251 (738 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Reviews : The Producers (1968): Deluxe Edition (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In that very public endorsement, which appeared when The Producers opened under timid distribution in 1968, Sellers also said "Those of us who have seen this film and understand it have experienced a phenomenon which occurs only once in a life span." In that one respect we are pleased to disagree with the estimable Mr.
		The Producers is a culmination of his experience in, and profound respect for, the Catskills Jewish showbiz world that shaped him.
		Not carried over from the 2002 edition was the original film's theatrical trailer, as well as the promo for the 2001 Broadway cast CD (which became a first-rate DVD by itself).
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	The Producers (1968) : filmcritic.com Movie Review (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Springtime for Hitler, re-titled The Producers (probably for reasons of political correctness, which the film appears not to give a damn about), was a movie about two theatre producers who take it upon themselves to make a fortune off of a flop.
		The best way to characterize this film is as a charicature of Hilter as a cheaply-drawn cartoon with his pants down around his ankles singing at the top of his lungs.
		Sure, you see films like Get Shorty and The Player and The End of Violence, set in Hollywood and dealing with producers, and you know it’s a satire of the system, but, when you watch The Producers, it’s not the first thing that occurs to you.
	www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/84dbbfa4d710144986256c290016f76e/64e9c87c015c11a4882567b2005cf382?OpenDocument (805 words)

	Amazon.com: The Producers (Special Edition): DVD: Zero Mostel,Gene Wilder,Christopher Hewett,William Hickey,Anne ...
		Hinging on a crafty plot premise, which in turn unleashes a joyously insane onstage spoof, The Producers is powered by a clutch of over-the-top performances, capped by the odd couple pairing of the late Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, making his screen debut.
		Mostel is Max Bialystock, a gone-to-seed Broadway producer who spends his days wheedling checks from his "investors," elderly women for whom Bialystock is only too willing to provide company.
		Unfortunately for the producers (but fortunately for us), their candidate for failure is Springtime for Hitler, a Brooksian conceit that envisions what Goebbels might have accomplished with a little help from Busby Berkeley.
	www.amazon.com /Producers-Special-Zero-Mostel/dp/B00005JK45 (676 words)

	At-A-Glance Film Reviews: The Producers (1968)
		Mel Brooks' first film (and one of his best) is a riotous comedy that wouldn't have worked with a lesser cast.
		Admirably showcased in this film, they're an offbeat nutty delight as a failing producer of Broadway shows and his accountant, respectively.
		Wilder observes that more money could be made by producing a flop than a hit; the idea sets Mostel's conniving brain in motion.
	www.rinkworks.com /movies/m/the.producers.1968.shtml (120 words)

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		I almost expected a light saber battle between the protagonist and the thief, but the film took almost an opposite turn and made the film a ten with a bit of meaningfulness, where the light saber version would have been a seven.
		This film had some great shots with a 'Sixth Sense' quality to them, and if Night ever decided to direct a Star Wars film, this is what it would look like (but Bruce Willis would star in it).
		I want to say that this film is great And that I wish I could do something as great as what he did It made me feel as thought I was that person Getting back at some one in the past..
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	CNN.com - Entertainment - Mel Brooks comes to Broadway with 'The Producers' - April 19, 2001
		From the "Springtime for Hitler" number in "The Producers" (1968) to "The French Mistake" in "Blazing Saddles" to the title tune in "High Anxiety" (1977), his movies are full of all-stops-out song-and-dance numbers.
		"The Producers," based on his film about two theatrical impresarios who attempt to bilk backers out of their investments by overselling a flop, opens Thursday in New York after a sellout run in Chicago.
		In "The Producers," Bialystock and Bloom's ruse is found out when their hoped-for flop, "Springtime for Hitler," becomes a huge hit.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/19/the.producers (695 words)

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