There’s more money in failure than success, just ask Gene Wilder.

Mel Brooks’ iconic comedy classic “The Producers” (1967) will be back on the big screen at Bainbridge Cinemas at 7 p.m. Sunday, June 3.

The once-great Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel) had once been the toast of Broadway, but now he has been reduced to a washed-up, aging, fraudulent, corruptible and greedy Broadway producer who barely ekes out a hand-to-mouth existence romancing wealthy elderly women in exchange for money for his next play. Then, his accountant (Gene Wilder) discovers a discrepancy in Bialystock’s books and has a revelation: a savvy producer could make a lot more money with a flop than a hit.

Thus begins the duo’s quest to stage the worst play of all time: “Springtime for Hitler: A Gay Romp with Adolf and Eva at Berchtesgaden,” “a love letter to Hitler” written in total sincerity by deranged ex-Nazi Franz Liebkind (Kenneth Mars).

Hilarity — and accidental greatness — ensues.

The film was Brooks’s directorial debut, and he won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. It was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry, and placed eleventh on the American Film Institute’s “100 Years…100 Laughs” list.

Visit www.farawayentertainment.com/show/the-producers-50th-anniversary-1968 to learn more.