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MGM (Video & DVD) claimed Mel Brooks´s directorial debut remains both a career high point and a classic show business farce. Hinging on a crafty plot premise, which in turn unleashes a joyously insane onstage spoof, ´The Producers´ is powered by a clutch of over-the-top performances, capped by the odd couple pairing of the late Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, making his screen debut.\n Mostel is Max Bialystock, a gone-to-seed Broadway producer who spends his days wheedling checks from his ´investors,´ elderly women for whom Bialystock is only too willing to provide company. When wide-eyed auditor Leo Bloom (Wilder) comes to check the books, he unwittingly inspires the wild-eyed Max to hatch a sure-fire plan: sell 25,000 percent of his next show, produce a deliberate flop, then abscond with the proceeds. Unfortunately for the producers (but fortunately for us), their candidate for failure is ´Springtime for Hitler´, a Brooksian conceit that envisions what Goebbels might have accomplished with a little help from Busby Berkeley.\n Truly startling during its original 1968 release, ´The Producers´ does show signs of age in some peripheral scenes that make merry at the expense of gays and women. But the show´s nifty cast (notably including the late Dick Shawn as LSD, the space cadet that snags the musical´s title role, and Kenneth Mars as the helmeted playwright) clicks throughout, and the sight of Mostel fleecing his marks is irresistibly funny. Add Wilder´s literally hysterical Bloom, and it´s easy to understand the film´s exalted status among late-´60s comedies. ´--Sam Sutherland´
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