Before the Broadway show, before the Golden Globe-nominated remake, there was simply The Producers (1968). And it was damn good. Mel Brooks’s famous concoction, called “one of the funniest movies ever made” by Roger Ebert, stars Zero Mostel as Max Bialystock, a washed-up theatre producer who’s informed by his accountant (Gene Wilder) that the pair can make a fortune by staging a surefire … Become a Mr Skin Member and get the full review