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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a 1963 American epic comedy film produced and directed by Stanley Kramer with a story and screenplay by William Rose and Tania Rose. The film, starring Spencer Tracy with an all-star cast of comedians, is about the madcap pursuit of a suitcase full of stolen cash by a colorful group of strangers.
Parents' Guide to. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. By Charles Cassady Jr., Common Sense Media Reviewer. age 8+. It's a long, long, long, long classic comedy chase-epic. Movie G 1963 154 minutes. Rate movie. Parents Say: age 9+ 6 reviews. Any Iffy Content? Read more. Talk with Your Kids About… Read more. A Lot or a Little?
- Dick Shawn, Mickey Rooney, Spencer Tracy
- Stanley Kramer
- MGM/UA
Feb 18, 2020 · I don’t know if it had previously occurred to anyone that a funny movie could also be an epic movie, but that’s what’s going on here. They lean into the size and scope of the thing big-time. Absolutely everything about this film is extra, from the story to the filming to the cast to the credits.
Feb 15, 2018 · As of January 2018, there are just two of the featured players in It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World still living. Jerry Lewis died in August 2017, leaving only Carl Reiner and Barrie Chase as survivors. Carl, who will turn 96 in March 2018, played the tower controller at Rancho Conejo. Barrie, now 84, played the girlfriend of Sylvestor (Dick ...
Jan 21, 2014 · The star-studded world premiere of It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, on November 7, 1963, was the inaugural presentation at Hollywood’s Cinerama Dome. The New York premiere, at the long-gone Warner Cinerama, a benefit for a pair of Kennedy family charities, was held just five days before President John F. Kennedy’s assassination—the ...
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, about a group of strangers fighting tooth and nail over buried treasure, is the most grandly harebrained movie ever made, a pileup of slapstick and borscht-belt-y one-liners performed by a nonpareil cast, including Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Spencer Tracy, Jonathan Winters, and a ...
Jan 21, 2014 · An epic essay on an epic comedy of the 1960s, now given deluxe treatment on Blu-ray and DVD by Criterion.
