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Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, Ethel Merman, Phil Silvers, Jonathan Winters, Peter Falk,

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

( Catalog Number ML102194 )
(2.50:1) (5 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc
Documentary: 'A Little Less Serious'
Glossy Insert with Chapter Descriptions
20 Minutes of Additional Footage
Overture and Exit Music
Television Spots
Reissue Trailer (1970)
Original Theatrical Trailer
LaserDisc

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963 - 188 min. - Color
Genre: Comedy
Rated PG-13
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
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!

LaserDisc Movie Review:
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

Only the super-wide screen Cinerama format could hold all of the comedy stars in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, not to mention the title itself. Just as the bloated Cinerama feature How the West Was Won sought to outdo any Western before it, World fancied itself the comedy to end all comedies. It paraded an unparalleled list of famous comics across the screen, in both feature roles and cameos: Jimmy Durante, Milton Berle, Buster Keaton, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, Phil Silvers, Peter Falk, Jonathan Winters, Jack Benny, Carl Reiner, Jerry Lewis, Dick Shawn, The Three Stooges, and many more. The film operates under the belief that having all of these funny people on screen is enough to get laughs, and occasionally, World can't help but crash under the strain of its frenetic pace and oppressive running time. Director Stanley Kramer smartly puts the most solid of Hollywood stars, Spencer Tracy, at the heart of all the slapstick madness. This was quite a radical departure for Kramer and Tracy, considering their previous two films together had been the dramas Inherit the Wind and Judgment at Nuremberg. --- Brendon Hanley

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Cast for It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Spencer Tracy - Capt. C.G. Culpepper
Milton Berle - J. Russell Finch
Sid Caesar - Melville Crump
Buddy Hackett - Benjy Benjamin
Mickey Rooney - Ding Bell
Ethel Merman - Mrs. Marcus
Phil Silvers - Otto Meyer
Dick Shawn - Sylvester Marcus
Jonathan Winters - Lennie Pike
Edie Adams - Monica Crump
Dorothy Provine - Emmeline Finch
Eddie "Rochester" Anderson - Cab Driver
Ben Blue - Airplane Pilot
Alan Carney - Police Sergeant
Barrie Chase - Mrs. Haliburton
Peter Falk - Cab Driver
Paul Ford - Col. Wilberforce
Leo Gorcey - Cab Driver
Edward Everett Horton - Dinckler
Buster Keaton - Jimmy the Crook
Don Knotts - Nervous Man
Carl Reiner - Tower Control
Andy Devine - Sheriff Mason
Sterling Holloway - Fire Chief
Marvin Kaplan - Irwin
Charles Lane - Airport Manager
Charles McGraw - Lieutenant
ZaSu Pitts - Switchboard Operator
Madlyn Rhue - Police Secretary
Arnold Stang - Ray
Jesse White - Radio Tower Operator
Lloyd Corrigan - Mayor
Selma Diamond - Culpeper's Wife (voice)
Stan Freberg - Deputy Sheriff
Louise Glenn - Voice of Billie Sue
Ben Lessy - George, the Steward
Bobo Lewis - Pilot's Wife
Nick Stewart [Nicodemus] - Truck Driver
Sammee Tong - Chinese Laundryman
Norman Fell - Detective
Nicholas Georgiade - Detective
Jimmy Durante - Smiler Grogan
Doodles Weaver - Salesman
Jim Backus - Tyler Fitzgerald
Eddie Ryder - Tower Radioman
The Three Stooges - Fireman
Roy Roberts
Terry-Thomas - J. Algernon Hawthorne
Jack Benny - Cameo
Joe E. Brown - Union Official
Roy Engel
Minta Durfee
Larry Fine - Fireman
Don C. Harvey - Helicopter Observer
Chick Chandler
Curly Joe DeRita - Fireman
Stanley Clements
Howard Da Silva - Airport Officer
Barbara Pepper
Paul Birch - Patrolman
Mike Mazurki - Sarge
Cliff Norton
Moe Howard - Fireman
Allen Jenkins - Police Officer
Jerry Lewis - Mad Driver
Tom Kennedy - Traffic Cop
Harry Lauter - Radio Operator

Crew for It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Stanley Kramer - Director / Producer
Tania Rose - Screenwriter
William Rose - Screenwriter
Ernest Laszlo - Cinematographer
Mac David - Songwriter
Ernest Gold - Songwriter / Composer (Music Score)
Gene Fowler, Jr. - Editor
Robert Jones - Editor
Frederic Knudtson - Editor
Rudolph Sternad - Production Designer
Gordon Gurnell - Art Director
Joseph Kish - Set Designer
Bill Thomas - Costume Designer
George Lane - Makeup
Lynn Reynolds - Makeup
Linwood G. Dunn - Special Effects
Danny Lee - Special Effects
Carey Loftin - Stunts
Marvin Willens - Stunts

Awards for It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Best Cinematography (nom) Ernest Laszlo 1963 Academy
Best Editing (nom) Gene Fowler, Jr. 1963 Academy
Best Editing (nom) Robert Jones 1963 Academy
Best Editing (nom) Frederic Knudtson 1963 Academy
Best Score (nom) Ernest Gold 1963 Academy
Best Song (nom) Mac David 1963 Academy
Best Song (nom) Ernest Gold 1963 Academy
Best Sound (nom) Gordon E. Sawyer (Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department) 1963 Academy
Best Sound Effects (win) Elliott, Walter G. 1963 Academy
Best Direction Stanley Kramer 1963 New York Film Critics Circle
Best Film Stanley Kramer 1963 New York Film Critics Circle
Best Screenwriting William Rose 1963 New York Film Critics Circle
Best Screenwriting Tania Rose 1963 New York Film Critics Circle

Feature Details

Title: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Feature Release Date: 1963
Genre: Comedy
Rating: PG-13
Color: Color
Runtime: 188 Minutes
Chapters: 68
Picture: Letterboxed
Ratio: 2.50:1
Playback Format: CLV

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Technical Details

LD Release Date: 4 Sep 1991
Catalog Number: ML102194
UPC: 027616219466
ISBN: 0-7928-0705-7
Manufacturer: Pioneer USA
Publisher: MGM/UA Home Video

Diameter: 12"
Sides: 5
Cover: Box Set
Spoken Language: English
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: ML102194
Shipping Weight: 3 lbs
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Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, Ethel Merman, Phil Silvers, Jonathan Winters, Peter Falk,

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

( Catalog Number ML102194 )
(2.50:1) (5 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc
Documentary: 'A Little Less Serious'
Glossy Insert with Chapter Descriptions
20 Minutes of Additional Footage
Overture and Exit Music
Television Spots
Reissue Trailer (1970)
Original Theatrical Trailer
LaserDisc

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963 - 188 min. - Color
Genre: Comedy
Rated PG-13
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
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!

LaserDisc Movie Review:
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

Only the super-wide screen Cinerama format could hold all of the comedy stars in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, not to mention the title itself. Just as the bloated Cinerama feature How the West Was Won sought to outdo any Western before it, World fancied itself the comedy to end all comedies. It paraded an unparalleled list of famous comics across the screen, in both feature roles and cameos: Jimmy Durante, Milton Berle, Buster Keaton, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, Phil Silvers, Peter Falk, Jonathan Winters, Jack Benny, Carl Reiner, Jerry Lewis, Dick Shawn, The Three Stooges, and many more. The film operates under the belief that having all of these funny people on screen is enough to get laughs, and occasionally, World can't help but crash under the strain of its frenetic pace and oppressive running time. Director Stanley Kramer smartly puts the most solid of Hollywood stars, Spencer Tracy, at the heart of all the slapstick madness. This was quite a radical departure for Kramer and Tracy, considering their previous two films together had been the dramas Inherit the Wind and Judgment at Nuremberg. --- Brendon Hanley

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Cast for It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Spencer Tracy - Capt. C.G. Culpepper
Milton Berle - J. Russell Finch
Sid Caesar - Melville Crump
Buddy Hackett - Benjy Benjamin
Mickey Rooney - Ding Bell
Ethel Merman - Mrs. Marcus
Phil Silvers - Otto Meyer
Dick Shawn - Sylvester Marcus
Jonathan Winters - Lennie Pike
Edie Adams - Monica Crump
Dorothy Provine - Emmeline Finch
Eddie "Rochester" Anderson - Cab Driver
Ben Blue - Airplane Pilot
Alan Carney - Police Sergeant
Barrie Chase - Mrs. Haliburton
Peter Falk - Cab Driver
Paul Ford - Col. Wilberforce
Leo Gorcey - Cab Driver
Edward Everett Horton - Dinckler
Buster Keaton - Jimmy the Crook
Don Knotts - Nervous Man
Carl Reiner - Tower Control
Andy Devine - Sheriff Mason
Sterling Holloway - Fire Chief
Marvin Kaplan - Irwin
Charles Lane - Airport Manager
Charles McGraw - Lieutenant
ZaSu Pitts - Switchboard Operator
Madlyn Rhue - Police Secretary
Arnold Stang - Ray
Jesse White - Radio Tower Operator
Lloyd Corrigan - Mayor
Selma Diamond - Culpeper's Wife (voice)
Stan Freberg - Deputy Sheriff
Louise Glenn - Voice of Billie Sue
Ben Lessy - George, the Steward
Bobo Lewis - Pilot's Wife
Nick Stewart [Nicodemus] - Truck Driver
Sammee Tong - Chinese Laundryman
Norman Fell - Detective
Nicholas Georgiade - Detective
Jimmy Durante - Smiler Grogan
Doodles Weaver - Salesman
Jim Backus - Tyler Fitzgerald
Eddie Ryder - Tower Radioman
The Three Stooges - Fireman
Roy Roberts
Terry-Thomas - J. Algernon Hawthorne
Jack Benny - Cameo
Joe E. Brown - Union Official
Roy Engel
Minta Durfee
Larry Fine - Fireman
Don C. Harvey - Helicopter Observer
Chick Chandler
Curly Joe DeRita - Fireman
Stanley Clements
Howard Da Silva - Airport Officer
Barbara Pepper
Paul Birch - Patrolman
Mike Mazurki - Sarge
Cliff Norton
Moe Howard - Fireman
Allen Jenkins - Police Officer
Jerry Lewis - Mad Driver
Tom Kennedy - Traffic Cop
Harry Lauter - Radio Operator

Crew for It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Stanley Kramer - Director / Producer
Tania Rose - Screenwriter
William Rose - Screenwriter
Ernest Laszlo - Cinematographer
Mac David - Songwriter
Ernest Gold - Songwriter / Composer (Music Score)
Gene Fowler, Jr. - Editor
Robert Jones - Editor
Frederic Knudtson - Editor
Rudolph Sternad - Production Designer
Gordon Gurnell - Art Director
Joseph Kish - Set Designer
Bill Thomas - Costume Designer
George Lane - Makeup
Lynn Reynolds - Makeup
Linwood G. Dunn - Special Effects
Danny Lee - Special Effects
Carey Loftin - Stunts
Marvin Willens - Stunts

Awards for It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Best Cinematography (nom) Ernest Laszlo 1963 Academy
Best Editing (nom) Gene Fowler, Jr. 1963 Academy
Best Editing (nom) Robert Jones 1963 Academy
Best Editing (nom) Frederic Knudtson 1963 Academy
Best Score (nom) Ernest Gold 1963 Academy
Best Song (nom) Mac David 1963 Academy
Best Song (nom) Ernest Gold 1963 Academy
Best Sound (nom) Gordon E. Sawyer (Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department) 1963 Academy
Best Sound Effects (win) Elliott, Walter G. 1963 Academy
Best Direction Stanley Kramer 1963 New York Film Critics Circle
Best Film Stanley Kramer 1963 New York Film Critics Circle
Best Screenwriting William Rose 1963 New York Film Critics Circle
Best Screenwriting Tania Rose 1963 New York Film Critics Circle

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