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Released
1968 · FILM

The Producers

A scheming Broadway producer teams with his nervous accountant to profit from a deliberately disastrous musical, but when their tasteless Hitler‑themed show unexpectedly draws crowds, they must scramble to keep the fraud hidden before it destroys them both.

Hollywood Never Faced a Zanier Zero Hour!

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Written by
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
89 min
ComedyMusic

Synopsis

A cunning Broadway producer and his timid accountant scheme to make money by persuading wealthy elderly women to invest in a production that is deliberately overbudget. Their plan is to stage an inevitable failure, ensuring that no one will demand their money back. Nothing could be more disastrous, they believe, than a tasteless musical that glorifies Adolf Hitler.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Ralph RosenblumShot by Joseph F CoffeyScored by John MorrisDesigned by Charles Rosen

Box Office

1968 · Box office

Produced on a $947K budget

Production budget

$947K

Also known as

  • Frühling für Hitlerde
  • Mel Brooks' Frühling für Hitlerde
  • Los productoreses
  • Les Producteursfr
  • Per favore, non toccate le vecchietteit

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