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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Directed by Stanley Kramer
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Most recently watched by jakeneff
Overview
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
Rated G | Length 197 minutes
Actors
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 | Ben Blue | Joe E. Brown | Alan Carney | Chick Chandler | Barrie Chase | Lloyd Corrigan | William Demarest | Selma Diamond | Andy Devine | Peter Falk | Norman Fell | Paul Ford | Stan Freberg | Louise Glenn | Leo Gorcey | Sterling Holloway | Marvin Kaplan | Edward Everett Horton | Buster Keaton | Charles Lane | Don Knotts | Mike Mazurki | Charles McGraw | Cliff Norton | Zasu Pitts | Carl Reiner | Madlyn Rhue | Roy Roberts | Arnold Stang | Nick Stewart | Moe Howard | Larry Fine | Joe DeRita | Sammee Tong | Jimmy Durante | Jack Benny | Jerry Lewis | Doodles Weaver | Jesse White | Al Bain | Stanley Clements | Max Wagner | Morey Amsterdam | Lovyss Bradley | Dick Cherney | John Clarke | Roy Engel | Nicholas Georgiade | Stacy Harris | Don C. Harvey | John Indrisano | Allen Jenkins | Tom Kennedy | Charles Sherlock | Paul Sorensen | Lennie Weinrib
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02/27/2016 | Movie Screen | Film | Theater | 7 stars |
| (Average) 7 stars |
Viewing Notes
First time viewing! Having never seen this movie this event was probably the best way to experience it for the first time. I think viewing this on my own at home it would have been tough to appreciate given the runtime and ongoing slapstick physical comedy, which stretches some sequences too long.
However, viewing with a huge audience at the Music Box in 70mm Ultra Panavision really made this a super fun experience. It’s a crazy movie that had to be challenging to film. Didn’t realize the amount of talent that was brought together to create this. Stacked with top stars of the time, some of which look younger than I would have imagined for the time and others that look older like Mickey Rooney.
This is another movie where I’d like to visit some of the locations where it was filmed.
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