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The Producers - 2 Disc Deluxe Edition

" This is one of the funniest movies ever made. To see it now is to understand that. 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. The movie was like a bomb going off inside the audience's sense of propriety. There is such rapacity in its heroes, such gleeful fraud, such greed, such lust, such a willingness to compromise every principle, that we cave in and go along."

"The movie stars Mostel and Wilder as Max Bialystock, a failing Broadway producer, and Leo Bloom, a nebbishy accountant. Bialystock raises money for his productions by seducing checks out of little old ladies, who come to his office to fool around ('We'll play the innocent little milkmaid and the naughty stable boy!'). Bloom is sent to do his books, and finds that Bialystock raised $2,000 more than he lost on his last failure. You could make a lot of money by overfinancing turkeys, he muses, a glint in his eye: 'The IRS isn't interested in flops.'"

"This leads to their great inspiration: Max will venture into "little old lady-land" and raise thousands of dollars more than they need for a production that will be guaranteed to fail." --- Roger Ebert

Selected for the Library of Congress National Film Registry of American Film.

DVD - 2 Disc Deluxe Edition

• Dolby Digital 5.1 - English; Mono - English
• Subtitles - English - Closed Captioning
  Subtitles - English, French, Spanish - Optional
• Behind the Scenes -
  1. 'The Making of THE PRODUCERS: Act I'
  2. 'The Making of THE PRODUCERS: Act II'
  3. 'The Making of THE PRODUCERS: Closing'
  4. 'The Making of THE PRODUCERS: Intermission'
  5. 'The Making of THE PRODUCERS: Opening'
• Deleted Scenes - 'Playhouse Outtake'
• Featurette - 'A Look at the New Theatrical Release - THE PRODUCERS'
• Featurette -Peter Sellers' Statement Read by Paul Mazursky
• Theatrical Trailer
• Storyboards - 'Sketch Gallery'

Director: Mel Brooks
Color
Feature running time: 90 minutes
Released: 1968
Rated: PG

Country: U.S.A.
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Musical

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