Les Producteurs

Titre original : The Producers

1967
G
1h 28m

ÉVALUATION IMDb

7,5/10

62 k

MA NOTE

Trailer for The Producers: Collectors Edition: Blu-Ray And DVD Combo Pack

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Farce Comedy Music

Les producteurs Max Bialystock et Leo Bloom se font de l'argent en produisant un four assuré.Les producteurs Max Bialystock et Leo Bloom se font de l'argent en produisant un four assuré.Les producteurs Max Bialystock et Leo Bloom se font de l'argent en produisant un four assuré.

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

7,5/10

62 k

MA NOTE

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

A remporté 1 oscar
- 4 victoires et 5 nominations au total

Anecdotes
Mel Brooks cannot read music. "Springtime for Hitler" and "Prisoners of Love" (as were all the songs Brooks writes for his films) were hummed into a tape recorder and transcribed by an expert. When Brooks adapted the movie into a stage musical, he wrote the entire score by himself using the same method.

Gaffes
In LSD's number "Love Power", his musical ensemble consists of a guitarist, keyboardist, and sax player; however, the music heard clearly has flute, bass guitar, drums, and other instruments not represented, but no saxophone.

Citations
Leo Bloom: I'm hysterical! I'm having hysterics. I'm hysterical. I can't stop when I get like this. I can't stop. I'm hysterical.
[Max throws a glass of water on him]
Leo Bloom: I'm wet! I'm wet! I'm hysterical, and I'm wet!
[Max slaps him]
Leo Bloom: I'm in pain! And I'm wet! And I'm still hysterical!

Générique farfelu
The closing credits are in reverse order, acting like curtain calls, which lead up to the star actor.

Autres versions
Some prints eliminate the opening "Embassy Pictures" logo, as well as a few seconds of footage in the bar scene, including the drunk's dialogue "Let's have a toast...to toast! I love toast..." and the beginning of the song "By the Light of the Silvery Moon". Most prints just cut into the scene in the middle of the song verse.

Connexions
Featured in The Dick Cavett Show: Robert Altman/Mel Brooks/Peter Bogdanovich/Frank Capra (1972)

Bandes originales
The Producers
(uncredited)
John Morris and M. Goode

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Commentaire en vedette

7/10

Zany Mel Brooks comedy is over-the-top laugh riot...

There are so many laughs in THE PRODUCERS (long before Mel Brooks lost his magic touch), that you'll be in tears by the time Brooks gets to his "Springtime for Hitler" routine. ZERO MOSTEL's early scenes with ESTELLE WINWOOD are hilarious enough, but he and GENE WILDER top themselves by the time you get to the frantic ending.

LEE MEREDITH is the curvy Ulla who can shake a mean hip and DICK SHAWN is the hilariously daffy Lorenzo St. DuBois (LSD for short), and everyone in the cast has a fine time delivering over-the-top performances in the spirit in which this sort of satire requires.

The story is simply that of a producer running short on cash who devises a scheme whereby if he produces the worst musical in the world, he can actually get his investment back and then some. He convinces his mild-mannered bookkeeper GENE WILDER to join him in the scheme and then the fun gets off to a great start.

The climactic "Springtime for Hitler" is just one of the delirious highlights (if politically incorrect by today's standards), and is probably the reason so many of the comments here resent the film and everything it stands for. But there's no getting away from it--the script is downright brilliant and original--winning an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay and numerous other writing awards including an award from The Writer's Guild of America.

Summing up: Mel Brooks at his wittiest.