Top cast:Alice Joyce,Earle Foxe,Mayme Kelso
Director:Elisabeth Röhm
Genre:Documentary
Region:Finland
Year:1999
Storyline:The Producerswas filmed in eight weeks on a budget of $946,000.The underground cult comedy received two Academy Awards nominations (with one win): Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen (Mel Brooks) (win), and Best Supporting Actor (Gene Wilder).Jane Darwell is marvelous (although her accent is inappropriate) as the strong center and backbone of the migratory family that must leave its ancestral land, and Henry Fonda is magnificent as an unmercifully-harrassed Okie who refuses to be beaten and crushed by misfortune.The ramshackle film, originally titledThe Great Man, is filled with Fields"" brand of silliness and buffoonery.Even if he""s innocent, he""ll need all his old adroitness escaping the suspicious opinions of a doubtful police."When she fell asleep, she began dreaming and had an awful nightmare:She awoke from her bed in front of the shuttered, condemned house, where young children were skipping rope on the front lawn and singing: "One, wo, Freddy""s coming for you.