Incomparable wit.

Rating: 10/10 (28 December 2004)

This is Mel Brooks at his finest hour with the perfect actors in Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder. Zero plays a down-at-heels producer who cons elderly ladies into investing money into his plays. Wilder is his accountant who is persuaded to join him in producing a sure fire flop  which would mean that none of the investments would have to be paid back.
I have read that Brooks and Mostel didn't get on which is why Mostel's performance is so good. Especially the early scene where he tears up his "cardboard belt".
I also love the dialogue such as Wilder: "Let us assume that you are a dishonest man." Mostel: "Assume away." I can't imagine anybody else in the two lead roles  The Producers is a shining diamond in the history of film-making. 10/10.