The Producers Movie

The Original Producers starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder was a near perfect movie. It is zany, silly, over the top, and Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel were perfect as the greedy Broadway Producer and the sappy Accountant who wanted more from life-more money that is. The Producers was really a film of its time-the 1960s. It was only twenty years since the end of World War Two, for many people the Nazis were not a cartoon character in an Indian Jones movie, they were real, live monsters. So the idea of making a musical comedy about Hitler’s Third Reich…

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