continues BBC2's season of comedies from writer-director, Mel Brooks tonight starring Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder

Producer Max Bialystock hits on a guaranteed formula for financial success on Broadway: to persuade his many elderly lady patrons to over-finance a play that will flop on its first night. After all, something as tasteless as a musical about The Nazi Party called 'Springtime for Hitler' could not possibly be a hit... could it? Zero Mostel as the producer for whom no money-making scheme is too undignified, and Gene Wilder as his accountant clutching at sanity and a security blanket, career at full speed through director Mel Brooks's outrageous script.

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