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...PRODUCERS. Zero Mostel as a Broad way producer caricatures Merrick not as David but Goliath in this often disjointed and inconsistent yet frequently uproariously funny film directed by Mel Brooks. THE GRADUATE. Director Mike Nichols doesn't quite pull a Babbitt out of the hat in this sophomoronic film about the disillusioning encounters suffered by an idealist college grad (Dustin Hoffman) when he returns home to Los Angeles...
...PRODUCERS has many things going for it-notably a wild ad-lib energy that explodes in sight gags and punch lines. Mel Brooks, creator of TV's Get Smart, wrote and directed this piece of lunacy about a pair of sleazy producers (Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder) who try to make a killing on a Broadway flop...
...PRODUCERS has many things going for it-notably a wild ad-lib energy that explodes in sight gags and punch lines. Mel Brooks, creator of TV's Get Smart, wrote and directed this piece of lunacy about a pair of sleazy producers (Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder) who try to make a killing on a Broadway flop...
...Pell-Mel Lunacy. Records about The Man became a campus favorite and led to a profitable hitch for Brooks (who is married to Actress Anne Bancroft) as Ballantine Beer's 2,500-year-old Brewmaster. The residuals really started rolling in when he and Writer Buck Henry created a television series about a fumbling, bumbling superspy named Maxwell Smart. After the outsized success of Get Smart, Brooks was constantly asked what he intended to do next. He developed a stock answer: he was writing and directing a movie called Springtime for Hitler, a backhanded reference to Edward Everett Horton...
...comedian," Fred Allen said, "is a man on the treadmill to oblivion." But it is the gag writer who makes him go, and in the specialized craft of making funny men seem funny, few people have larger reputations than Mel Brooks...