It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world / Stanley Kramer presents a United Artists release ; story and screenplay by William & Tania Rose ; produced and directed by Stanley Kramer.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 1006051 | MGM Home EntertainmentLanguage: English, French Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French, Spanish Publication details: Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment, ©2006.Edition: [Widescreen ed.]Description: 1 videodisc (approximately 161 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 0792859138
- 9780792859130
- Director of photography, Ernest Laszlo ; editors, Gene Fowler, Jr., Robert C. Jones, Frederic Knudtson ; music, Ernest Gold.
- Academy Award, 1964: Best Effects, Sound Effects (Walter Elliott)
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
With this all-star Cinerama epic, producer/director Stanley Kramer vowed to make "the comedy that would end all comedies." The story begins during a massive traffic jam, caused by reckless driver Smiler Grogan (Jimmy Durante), who, before (literally) kicking the bucket, cryptically tells the assembled drivers that he's buried a fortune in stolen loot, "under the Big W." The various motorists setting out on a mad scramble include a dentist (Sid Caesar) and his wife (Edie Adams); a henpecked husband (Milton Berle) accompanied by his mother-in-law (Ethel Merman) and his beatnik brother-in-law (Dick Shawn); a pair of comedy writers (Buddy Hackett and Mickey Rooney); and a variety of assorted nuts including a slow-wit (Jonathan Winters), a wheeler-dealer (Phil Silvers), and a pair of covetous cabdrivers (Peter Falk and Eddie "Rochester" Anderson). Monitoring every move that the fortune hunters make is a scrupulously honest police detective (Spencer Tracy). Virtually every lead, supporting, and bit part in the picture is filled by a well-known comic actor: the laughspinning lineup also includes Carl Reiner, Terry-Thomas, Arnold Stang, Buster Keaton, Jack Benny, Jerry Lewis, and The Three Stooges, who get one of the picture's biggest laughs by standing stock still and uttering not a word. Two prominent comedians are conspicuous by their absence: Groucho Marx refused to appear when Kramer couldn't meet his price, while Stan Laurel declined because he felt he was too old-looking to be funny. Available for years in its 154-minute general release version, the film was restored to its roadshow length of 175 minutes on home video; the search goes on for a missing Buster Keaton routine, reportedly excised on the eve of the picture's premiere. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
DVD; Dolby digital, double sided, widescreen (2.55:1) aspect ratio, region 1, NTSC.
English: 5.1 surround; French 5.1 surround; English, French & Spanish language subtitles; closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Dick Shawn, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas, Jonathan Winters.
Director of photography, Ernest Laszlo ; editors, Gene Fowler, Jr., Robert C. Jones, Frederic Knudtson ; music, Ernest Gold.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1963.
MPAA rating: G.
When a goofy assortment of motorists unexpectedly learn the whereabouts of a stolen fortune, they speed off on a side-splitting, car-bashing race for the loot.
Academy Award, 1964: Best Effects, Sound Effects (Walter Elliott)