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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, 1963
English
USA
Profile of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
The mood of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is witty, offbeat, and feel good. The plot centers around a treasure hunt, chases, and a situation where nothing goes right. It features farce and silly humor. It is a comedy and adventure movie. Stylistically, it features an all-star cast, is epic, and campy humor. In approach, it is realistic. The pacing of it is fast. The setting is California. It happens in the 1960s. It is known for being a classic, essential viewing, and an award winner. It is especially suggested for a family outing.
Summary of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
This wacky comedy classic directed by Stanley Kramer features one of the largest collections of American comedians ever brought together on celluloid, resulting in the kind of far-out comic gem that only the 1960s could dish out. Filled with sharp one-liners, plenty of pratfalls and double takes, and unstoppable slapstick humor, this film never stops entertaining. The laughs come mostly from vehicle accidents of all kinds: car crashes, bike accidents, airplane failures, and almost everything else imaginable. But a good amount of humor is also lent to major wrestling matches, terrible mix-ups and misunderstandings, and increasingly absurd personalities such as Mrs. Marcus (Ethel Merman), the screeching and impossible mother-in-law. The film even laughs at itself, showing its flimsy cardboard sets as characters punch out walls or accidentally explode whole boxes of dynamite. The cast includes such favorites as Jonathan Winters, Phil Silvers, Milton Berle, Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, Sid Caesar, Spencer Tracey, Terry-Thomas, and Dick Shawn, among countless others.
Brilliantly simple, the plot concerns a caravan of motorists who witness a terrible accident on a dangerously windy California highway. The auto-crash victim (Jimmy Durante) reveals in his dying words that he has hidden a fortune of stolen cash, sending the drivers on a rambunctious race to see who can claim the loot first!
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | November 1963 |
| Runtime: | 154 min |
Cast and Crew
as Capt. C. G. Culpepper
as Mrs. Marcus
as J. Russell Finch
as Smiler Grogan
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