It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
starring: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Sid Caesar
directed by: Stanley Kramer
directed by: Stanley Kramer
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Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0027616902740
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 07, 2003
Running Time: 161 minutes
Sales Rank: 965
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: November 07, 1963
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Editorial Review:
Description:
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.
Amazon.com:
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
Average Rating: 
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- 5 Stars for the final 2 minutes...I enjoyed this movie as a kid, but watched it recently and found it to be bloated and dated and not ... Read More
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- funnyVery funny. It was as entertaining as it was many years ago when we saw it at the movies. Good quality ... Read More
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- Very FunnyI remember seeing this movie when it first came out at the movie Theater
Purchasing this DVD reminded ... Read More
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- It's a Good, Good, Good, Good, Movie!!!!!!! Great, cazy awesome, and narly. A comidy thats not meant to be moving, just plain old funny and to keep you ... Read More
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- Nothing else comparesThis movie has a special place in my memories. My dad took the family to see it at he Cinerama Dome in Hollywood ... Read More
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