...It""s he girls that I try to score with that I can""t get to first base with.I""m turning into the strike-out king of San Francisco." BackgroundThe Producers(1968) was writer/director Mel Brooks"" debut film and most popular farce - a zany, often brilliant spoof comedy about Broadway productions (and their producers) and the Nazis that many considered shoddy and in very bad taste.Romero""s choice of a black lead actor was due to his low budget, but was still revolutionary - the character was the first African-American to play the heroic lead role in a horror film.It was the first feature film to examine outlaw motorcycle gang violence in America, and created a new kind of exploitative, low-budget, ""drive-in"" movie about a new breed of American rebel, the biker outlaw.He wears a dark priestly robe and has a distinctive, jagged widow""s peak on his forehead.Werdegast greets his old friend - or enemy: "It has been a long time Hjalmar.The years have been kind to you." Poelzig also takes a desirous, but repressed, covert interest in Joan.When they are alone together, Werdegast is outwardly cordial, but in a tense scene, he confronts and taunts his host Poelzig with raging animosity for betraying him (and thousands of other Hungarians) over fifteen years earlier.H.Harriman], the mercenary organizer of the bounty hunters, with heir appointed leader Deke Thornton (Robert Ryan), Pike""s former partner.