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It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) 7.5
The dying words of a thief spark a madcap cross-country rush to find some treasure. Director:Stanley Kramer |
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Cast
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| Spencer Tracy | ... | ||
| Milton Berle | ... | ||
| Sid Caesar | ... | ||
| Buddy Hackett | ... | ||
| Ethel Merman | ... | ||
| Mickey Rooney | ... | ||
| Dick Shawn | ... | ||
| Phil Silvers | ... | ||
| Terry-Thomas | ... | ||
| Jonathan Winters | ... | ||
| Edie Adams | ... | ||
| Dorothy Provine | ... | ||
| Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson | ... | ||
| Jim Backus | ... | ||
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After a long prison sentence Smiler Grogan is heading at high speed to a California park where he hid $350,000 from a job 15 years previously. He accidentally careens over a cliff in view of four cars whose occupants go down to help. The dying Grogan gives details of where the money is buried and when the witnesses fail to agree on sharing the cash, a crazy chase develops across the state. Written by Col Needham <col@imdb.com>
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
2 December 1963 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
It's a Mad World See more »Box Office
Budget:
$9,400,000 (estimated)Gross:
$46,300,000 (USA)Company Credits
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Technical Specs
Runtime:
| (edited) | (restored video) | (extended re-edit) (Laserdisc) | (original)Sound Mix:
4-Track Stereo (Westrex Recording System) (35mm prints)| 70 mm 6-Track (Westrex Recording System) (70 mm prints)Color:
Color (Technicolor)Aspect Ratio:
2.76 : 1
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Miner: That's the trouble, the doc's not sure. He says whatever it is, she's too sick even to be moved. She needs this special stuff and we haven't got a phone so I went to get it and that's when... Slow down, the turning is just up here.
Otto Meyer: Turning? You mean it's off the road?
Miner: Only a mile.
Otto Meyer: Now look, Pal, I'm in a hurry...
Miner: HOLD IT! Stop the car. Now listen, buddy, I'm sorry about your problems. But the doc said to hurry and this is my wife. Now come on, we turn right here...
Otto Meyer:
Miner:
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(1963) (uncredited)
Music by Ernest Gold
Lyrics by Mack David
Sung by an offscreen chorus during the Overture
Variations in the score throughout the film
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Did You Know?
Trivia
Many of the locations for "Santa Rosita" were filmed in Long Beach, CA. The "Santa Rosita" Police Department was in real life the main branch of the YMCA at 6th and Long Beach Blvd. The hardware store the Crumps were locked in was at 5th and Locust. See more »Goofs
As the cabs are chasing Culpeper's car through the city, the same cars (among them a black 1956 Ford convertible and a new white Volkswagen Beetle) keep showing up and getting in the way. See more »Quotes
Otto Meyer: So, what's wrong with your wife?Miner: That's the trouble, the doc's not sure. He says whatever it is, she's too sick even to be moved. She needs this special stuff and we haven't got a phone so I went to get it and that's when... Slow down, the turning is just up here.
Otto Meyer: Turning? You mean it's off the road?
Miner: Only a mile.
Otto Meyer: Now look, Pal, I'm in a hurry...
Miner: HOLD IT! Stop the car. Now listen, buddy, I'm sorry about your problems. But the doc said to hurry and this is my wife. Now come on, we turn right here...
Otto Meyer:
Miner:
[...]
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Crazy Credits
The animators who animated the opening title sequence were technically uncredited on film, but they did get their names in during the shot where the giant globe "explodes" and there is a shower of name credits strewn over the screen. Freeze-frame reveals the names of all the animators. This is the same animation team who did A Charlie Brown Christmas. See more »Soundtracks
"It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World"(1963) (uncredited)
Music by Ernest Gold
Lyrics by Mack David
Sung by an offscreen chorus during the Overture
Variations in the score throughout the film
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This was the first time a comedy got the "epic" film treatment and after getting increasingly pretentious in his previous two dramas, Stanley Kramer just went all out for simple old-fashioned fun with the largest ensemble of comic talent he could get his hands on. How big? Consider that this is a film in which both Jack Benny and Rochester appear, but not together (also true of Phil Silvers and his "Sergeant Bilko" nemesis Paul Ford). Just about every big name in TV comedy of the 50s and 60s is here and the results, while not the greatest of its kind ("The Great Race" is a funnier film in my opinion) still manages to deliver the laughs.
It's too bad the remaining ten minutes (plus the police bulletins intermission) of the road show version still is missing, because the expanded version helped me appreciate the film a lot more than I did the first time out when I saw it on TV as a faded pan and scan atrocity. This is one film that makes great use of the widescreen.