Capital Celluloid 2018 - Day 208: Sun Aug 5

The Producers (Brooks, 1967): Rio Cinema, 4.15pm


This presentation includes appearances by director Mel Brooks before and after the movie in an interview recorded especially for this 50th Anniversary screening.

Time Out review:Mel Brooks' first feature, an absolutely hilarious and tasteless New York Jewish comedy about Broadway. Mostel plays a producer determined to clean up by staging the worst flop in history, first making sure that it's over-backed by all of the rich widows hot for him. Mostel and Wilder (as his bumbling Portnovian accountant) ham outrageously, and some of the humour falls flat. But the all-time flop itself could serve as a definition of kitsch, its centrepiece being the number 'Springtime for Hitler', all tits, pretzels and beer steins, in the best tradition of gaudy American burlesque.
Rod McShane

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