The Producers

The Producers is a 1968 feature length comedy film set in New York City in which two con-men attempt to cheat theatre "angels" (investors) out of their investment money. Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel) is a failed, aging Broadway producer who encounters nebbish accountant Leo Bloom (Gene Wilder). The film was adapted by its writer/director, Mel Brooks into a Broadway musical in 2001.

Quotations

From Mel Brooks' interview:

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:"I was never crazy about Hitler... If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win... That's what they do so well; they seduce people. But if you ridicule them, bring them down with laughter, they can't win. You show how crazy they are."

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