Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder (the latter manages to steal every mutual scene from the former, who has devoted his entire career to the art of stealing scenes) portray a pair of seedy Jewish theatrical entrepreneurs whose scheme for financial gain depends upon the guaranteed flop of their next show. Their can't-miss choice: Springtime for Hitler, a musical revue on the rise of the Third Reich, starring a hipster Hitler (Dick Shawn, very funny). Mel Brooks's first movie can hardly sit still with any idea for longer than stretches of a few minutes, and it runs low on fuel well before the finish, but the nervous, bullying, to-and-fro foraging for gag material turns up some of the heartiest laughs in recent history. (1968) — Duncan Shepherd
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