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Beringia

(5,221 posts)
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 07:29 PM Sep 26

The Producers with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder is free to watch on Tubi TV

https://tubitv.com/movies/100006508/the-producers

The Producers is a 1967 American satirical black comedy film written and directed by Mel Brooks, and starring Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn, and Kenneth Mars. The film is about a mild-mannered accountant and a con artist theater producer who scheme to get rich by fraudulently overselling interests in a stage musical designed to fail. To this end, they find a playscript celebrating Adolf Hitler and the Nazis and bring it to the stage. Because of this theme, The Producers was controversial from the start and received mixed reviews. It became a cult film, and found a more positive critical reception later.

Over the years, the film has gained in stature. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 91% based on 76 reviews with an average rating of 8.2/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "A hilarious satire of the business side of Hollywood, The Producers is one of Mel Brooks's finest, as well as funniest films, featuring standout performances by Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel



(I loved this movie, so funny and original)

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You can also watch Columbo series on Tubi

https://tubitv.com/series/300006728/columbo
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The Producers with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder is free to watch on Tubi TV (Original Post) Beringia Sep 26 OP
Springtime for Hitler SocialDemocrat61 Sep 26 #1
Cool, thanks...I need to find my blue blanket! wcmagumba Sep 26 #2
Kenneth Mars and Dick Shawn are great in it, too. John1956PA Sep 26 #3
The other night when I couldn't sleep BigmanPigman Sep 26 #6
THANK YOU!!! no_hypocrisy Sep 26 #4
As a teen I wandered into a local movie house. multigraincracker Sep 26 #5

John1956PA

(4,532 posts)
3. Kenneth Mars and Dick Shawn are great in it, too.
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 07:54 PM
Sep 26

"Achtung, Baby!" Okay, that phrase is not spoken in the movie, but a lot of us fans of Dick Shawn's work wish he had spoken it. Actually, the phase was coined by Mel Brooks in 1983.

BigmanPigman

(54,036 posts)
6. The other night when I couldn't sleep
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 08:17 PM
Sep 26

I tried to remember the lyrics of Shawn's audition song. That Warhol soup can around his neck always cracks me up.

multigraincracker

(36,475 posts)
5. As a teen I wandered into a local movie house.
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 08:16 PM
Sep 26

Had no idea what it was about. Turned out to be my all time favorite movie.

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