It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) | |
| Director(s) | Stanley Kramer |
| Producer(s) | Stanley Kramer |
| Top Genres | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Family |
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Overview:
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) was a Action - Adventure Film directed by Stanley Kramer and produced by Stanley Kramer.
SYNOPSIS
They emptied the comedy hall of fame to make this frantic epic. It's like a wide-screen, big-budget disaster movie - only played for laughs - in which half the fun is pointing to famous faces. Tracy is the relatively calm center of a whirlwind as a detective keeping an eye on a herd of citizens out to uncover a stash of stolen bank loot. He has his hands full following Berle, Caesar, Rooney, Winters, Durante, Adams, et al. and on and on. After a long prison sentence Smiler Grogan is heading at high speed to a California park where he hid $350,000 from a job 15 years previously. He accidentally careens over a cliff in view of four cars whose occupants go down to help. The dying Grogan gives details of where the money is buried and when the witnesses fail to agree on sharing the cash, a crazy chase develops across the state. (imdb)
(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).
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Academy Awards 1963 --- Ceremony Number 36 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Cinematography | Ernest Laszlo | Nominated |
| Best Film Editing | Frederic Knudtson, Robert C. Jones, Gene Fowler, Jr. | Nominated |
| Best Music - Scoring | Ernest Gold | Nominated |
| Best Music - Song | Music by Ernest Gold; Lyrics by Mack David | Nominated |
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IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD From Criterion
By Dan Day Jr. on Feb 11, 2014 From The Hitless Wonder Movie BlogCriterion has just come out with one of their most impressive home video releases ever. Stanley Kramer's IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD gets a 3-DVD, 2-Blu-ray set featuring two different versions of the movie and tons and tons of extras. The 1963 super-epic all-star comedy was the brainchild of s... Read full article
CMBA Film Passion Blogathon: IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD
By Irish Jayhawk on Dec 4, 2013 From Outspoken and FreckledGrowing up as a kid, classic comedies were a shaping influence in my life. My earliest memories of classic film derives from the comedies I watched with my family. I recall my grandmother and my uncle Patrick introducing me to comedy classics like Marx Brothers films, the Pink Panther films, Blake E... Read full article
TCM Classic Film Festival - It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
By Raquel Stecher on May 19, 2013 From Out of the Past - A Classic Film BlogCinerama Dome's Honeycomb Ceiling On Sunday April 28th, 2013, I attended a special screening of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) at the Cinerama Dome in Los Angeles. Even though this film is played regularly on TCM and I have had many chances to see it, this was my first time I had watched t... Read full article
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"
By David on May 30, 2012 From The Man on the Flying TrapezeMy name is David, and I am a recovering baby boomer. I mention this to help explain the affection I have for movies made when I was a kid, especially from about 1957-65. You can tell me they're cheesy and cliched, and tell me that they reinforce negative stereotypes. I know, and the "intellectual" w... Read full article
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Quotes from It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
J. Algernon Hawthorne: [Russell takes a swing at him and misses] So it's fisticuffs you want, is it? Right, stick 'em up!
J. Russell Finch: Don't hit me! Don't hit me!
[Hawthorne chases him around the car, until the two bump into one another]
J. Algernon Hawthorne: [looks at his arm] Blood!
J. Russell Finch: It certainly is.
J. Algernon Hawthorne: Aah!
[Russell swings at him again]
J. Russell Finch: [Hawthorne runs] Come back here, ya blimey...!
Lennie Pike: [furious] So! So someone will "stumble over the little girl's bicycle in the dark", huh? Well when I'm finished with *you*, they'll be stumbling over *YOU* in the *dark*!
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Facts about It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Arnold Stang broke his left forearm just days before his scenes were shot. In all shots, he wears garage workman's gloves on both hands and his his left arm is always crooked, and held in place by a cast concealed under his garage uniform.
Cara Williams was originally named as one of the female leads, most likely the Edie Adams role.
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