It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
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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 OscarsÂ(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.
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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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Actor(s):
Spencer Tracy
Milton Berle
Ethel Merman
Mickey Rooney
Sid Caesar

Creators:
Ernest Laszlo (Cinematographer)
Stanley Kramer (Producer)
Frederic Knudtson (Editor)
Gene Fowler Jr. (Editor)
Robert C. Jones (Editor)
Tania Rose (Writer)
William Rose (Writer)

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Recording label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
EAN: 0027616902740
Binding: DVD
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC,
Release date: 2003-10-07
Universal product code (UPC): 027616902740
Number of discs: 1
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
Audience rating: G (General Audience)
Region code: 1
Running time: 161 minutes
Language: English (Unknown)
Language: English (Original Language)
Brand: MGM

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