It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
by Stanley Kramer
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Actor: Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Spencer TracyDirector: Stanley Kramer
Brand: TRACY,SPENCER
Cinematographer: Ernest Laszlo
Producer: Stanley Kramer
Editor: Frederic Knudtson
Editor: Gene Fowler Jr.
Editor: Robert C. Jones
Writer: Tania Rose
Writer: William Rose
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 161 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-10-07
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Movie Review: Disapointed in tape.
Summary: 2 Stars
I ordered the movie "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World on tape because it was supposed to have closed captions. The tape version was the closest to the original movie. it was a 2-tape set. My wife requires closed captions. Tape #1 was without closed captions. # 2 had it. The seller tried to make things right by sending another copy of tape #1. It too, was without closed captions. My wife and I have been wanting to see this movie in it's entirety for a long time. The DVD's are missing almost 30 minutes from the original. The tape are only missing 11 minutes from the original. My only chance to see the entire movie will be when it comes on TCM again, don't know when.... The problems were NOT the fault of the seller. rather the people who made the tapes. Thank you.
Summary of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Spencer Tracy heads a hilariously zany cast that stars Hollywood's greatest comedians (Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Dick Shawn, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas and Jonathan Winters) and features cameo appearances by every joker and jester in the business from DonKnotts and Jerry Lewis to The Three Stooges. Nominated* for 6 Oscars?(r), It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is "an explosive motion picture experience" (Variety)! On a winding desert highway, eight vacation-bound motorists share an experience that alters their plansand their lives! After a mysterious stranger divulges the location of a stolen fortune, they each speed off in a mind-bending, car-bashing race for the loot and the most side-splitting laughfest in history.Stanley Kramer's sprawling 1963 comedy about a search for buried treasure by at least a dozen people--all played by well-known entertainers of their day--is the kind of mass comedy that Hollywood hasn't made in many years. (Another example from around the same time is Blake Edwards's The Great Race.) After a number of strangers (including Milton Berle, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Phil Silvers, and others) witness a dying stranger (Jimmy Durante) identify the location of hidden money, a conflict-ridden hunt begins, watched over carefully by a suspicious cop (Spencer Tracy). The ensuing two and a half hours of mayhem has its ups and downs--some bits and performers are certainly funnier than others. But Kramer, who is better known for socially conscious, serious cinema (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?), is in a mood for broad comic characterization, and some of his jokes are so intentionally obvious (Durante literally kicks a bucket when he dies), they'd have a place in Airplane! Watch for lots of cameo appearances, including Jerry Lewis (who had called Kramer and asked him why he hadn't been invited to participate). --Tom Keogh
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