I just watched “The Producers” for the very first time last night. I am familiar with the song “Springtime for Hitler” as I believe Dr. Demento used to play it on the radio. The odd thing is, a different stage performance of that song, than the one in “The Producers” movie.
I vividly recall a scene as follows: Mel Brooks dressed as Hitler, with a group of pseudo-Nazi’s, one I believe may have been Harvey Korman. They were inside a “bunker” and there were machine guns and explosions going off in the background, which was a fake battlefield. At the end of the song, a bomb lands on the bunker and blows them all up, in cartoonish fashion. Mel makes a wisecrack and collapses. End of skit. I’m not making this up. I remember it too clearly.
Does anyone recall such a skit, and where it came from? I am thinking Mel may have remade it in “History of the World” but I haven’t it seen it in so long, that I don’t remember anything but the Spanish Inqusition bit. help???