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It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) | User Rating
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Release Date
Nov 7, 1963 (USA)
DVD Release Date
• R1: Feb 1, 2001
Budget $9,400,000
Running Time
3 hours, 8 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
Casey Productions
Studio Stanley Kramer Productions, United Artists
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Other Titles
• It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
• Das Ding - eine total, total verrückte Welt (1963)
• Total, total verrückte Welt, Eine (1963)
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Genre: Action, Crime, Adventure, Comedy, On The Road, Blackmail, Detectives, Slapstick, Farce, Police, Deception, Cult Classic
Tagline: If ever this mad, mad, mad, mad world needed "It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world" it's now! (1970 re-release)
Plot: 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
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| Directed by |
Stanley Kramer
Inherit the Wind, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Judgment at Nuremberg |
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| Cast |
Spencer Tracy
Inherit the Wind, Bad Day at Black Rock, Adam's Rib |
 | Milton Berle
The Muppet Movie, Broadway Danny Rose, Let's Make Love |
 | Ethel Merman
There's No Business Like Show Business, Alexander's Ragtime Band, Call Me Madam |
 | Phil Silvers
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Cheap Detective, Summer Stock |
 | Terry-Thomas
Robin Hood, Don't Look Now, We've Been Shot at, The Abominable Dr. Phibes |
 | Jonathan Winters
The Flintstones, The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle, The Shadow |
 | Sid Caesar
Grease, Grease 2, History of the World: Part I | |
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| Music By |
Ernest Gold
Inherit the Wind, Cross of Iron, On the Beach |
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