The Producers (1967 Dave’s Pick)

The eleventh episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1967 features our producer David Rosen’s pick, Mel Brooks’ The Producers. Written and directed by Mel Brooks and starring Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Kenneth Mars, Dick Shawn and Christopher Hewett, The Producers was Brooks’ debut feature as a director.The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Time Magazine (http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,837773-1,00.html), Renata Adler in the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1968/03/19/archives/screen-the-producers-at-fine-arts.html), and Pauline Kael in The New Yorker.Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1967 installment, featuring our future cult classic pick, Roger Corman’s The Trip.

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