Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
The Producers (1967 film)
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
==Plot== Max Bialystock is an aging [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] producer whose career has veered from great success to the depths of near failure. He now ekes out a hand-to-mouth existence while romancing lascivious, wealthy elderly women in exchange for money for a "next play" that may never be produced. Leopold "Leo" Bloom, a nervous young accountant prone to hysterics, arrives at Max's office to audit his accounts and discovers a $2,000 discrepancy in the accounts of Max's last play. Max persuades Leo to hide the fraud, and Leo realizes that, since a flop is expected to lose money, the [[IRS]] will not investigate its finances, so a producer could earn more from a flop than from a hit by overselling interests and [[embezzling]] the funds. Wishing to put this scheme into action and flee to [[Rio de Janeiro]] with the profits, Max convinces Leo to join him, treating him to lunch and a day out and saying that his drab life is little different to prison anyway. The partners find the ideal play for their scheme: ''[[Springtime for Hitler|Springtime for Hitler: A Gay Romp with Adolf and Eva at Berchtesgaden]]'': a "love letter to Hitler" written by deranged ex-[[Nazi]] soldier Franz Liebkind. Leo and Max bond with Franz over Schnapps and tell him they want to show the world a positive representation of Hitler. Now with the stage rights, Max sells 25,000% of the play to investors, using some of the money to redecorate the office and hire a new receptionist, Ulla. To guarantee the show's failure, they hire [[Roger De Bris]], a flamboyantly gay [[transvestite]] director, whose productions seldom make it past initial rehearsals. The part of Hitler goes to a [[hippie]] named Lorenzo Saint DuBois, also known, in a reference to the [[counterculture]] [[Lysergic acid diethylamide|drug]], as L. S. D., who wanders into the theater during the [[casting call]]. At the theater on opening night, Max tries to ensure a harshly negative review by attempting to bribe ''[[The New York Times]]'' [[theatre critic]]. The play opens with a lavish production of the title song, "[[Springtime for Hitler (song)|Springtime for Hitler]]", which celebrates [[Nazi Germany]]'s conquering Europe ("Springtime for Hitler and Germany/Winter for [[invasion of Poland|Poland]] and [[Fall Rot|France]]"). L. S. D. then comes on stage as Hitler, and his [[beatnik]]-like portrayal makes the audience think the show is a [[satire (film and television)|satire]]. To Leo and Max's horror, ''Springtime for Hitler'' is a hit, so their investors will be expecting a larger financial return than can be paid out. Back at their office, as Leo and Max are fighting after the former attempts to turn himself in to get a plea bargain, a gun-wielding Franz confronts them. He tries first to shoot them, and then himself, but runs out of bullets. The three then decide to blow up the theater to end the production, but they are caught in the explosion and arrested. At the trial, where they are found "incredibly guilty" by the jury, Leo makes an impassioned statement praising Max for being his friend and changing his life. Leo, Max, and Franz are sent to the state penitentiary and produce a new musical called ''Prisoners of Love''. While Max and Franz supervise rehearsals, Leo oversells shares of the play to their fellow prisoners and the warden.
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
The Producers (1967 film)
(section)
Add topic