About this episode
The eleventh episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1967 features our producer David Rosen’s pick, Mel Brooks’ The Producers . Written and directed by Mel Brooks and starring Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Kenneth Mars, Dick Shawn and Christopher Hewett, The Producers was Brooks’ debut feature as a director. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Time Magazine ( http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,837773-1,00.html ), Renata Adler in the New York Times ( https://www.nytimes.com/1968/03/19/archives/screen-the-producers-at-fine-arts.html ), and Pauline Kael in The New Yorker . Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1967 installment, featuring our future cult classic pick, Roger Corman’s The Trip .