![]() ![]() The film itself is a semi-musical, with Dick Shawn swanning through a folk-rock protest song parody, 'Love Power' (written by Norman Blagman and Herb Hartig), and two purported show excerpts, 'Springtime for Hitler' and 'Prisoners of Love' (both composed by Brooks). Writer/director Mel Brooks' comedy about two producers who scheme to make a bundle by over-capitalizing a flop Broadway show stars Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, who also turn up on most of the tracks here, conceiving the idea executing it by finding a terrible script, a terrible director, and a terrible cast and suffering the consequences of its surprise success. Unlike most soundtrack albums, the one for The Producers does not restrict itself to containing just the score of the film in fact, it is dominated by dialogue excerpts that add up to an audio version of the movie in miniature. ![]()
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