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Overview

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Director:
Stanley Kramer
Writers:
William Rose (story) &
Tania Rose (story)
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Release Date:
7 November 1963 (USA) more
Genre:
Adventure | Comedy | Crime more
Tagline:
If ever this mad, mad, mad, mad world needed "It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world" it's now! (1970 re-release) more
Plot:
The dying words of a thief spark a madcap cross-country rush to find some treasure. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 2 wins & 9 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(4 articles)
Edie Adams Dies
 (From WENN. 16 October 2008, 9:12 AM, PDT)

Comedian Buddy Hackett Dies at 78
 (From WENN. 1 July 2003)

User Comments:
An Epic Comedy more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Additional Details

Also Known As:
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (USA) (promotional title)
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Runtime:
USA:154 min (edited version) | USA:192 min (original version) | USA:174 min (restored video version) | 182 min (Laserdisc version) (extended re-edit)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
4-Track Stereo (Westrex Recording System) (35mm prints) | 70 mm 6-Track (Westrex Recording System) (70 mm prints)
Certification:
USA:G (1970) | Iceland:L | Portugal:M/12 (edited version) | Portugal:M/6 (re-rating) (uncut) | West Germany:12 | Australia:G | Canada:G (Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Quebec) | Finland:K-8 | Spain:T | UK:U | Canada:PG (Ontario)
Filming Locations:
Agoura, California, USA more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Don Rickles reportedly wanted to be in the movie but was never asked. He never let Stanley Kramer live it down, either, even heckling him about it from the stage whenever Kramer came to see Rickles' show. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When the characters board the two cabs as they leave the park, Pike is refused entry by Sylvester's cab and then refused entry by the other cab, so he returns to Sylvester's cab and pushes his way into the cab next to Sylvester in the backseat. In the next shot of the cab's interior, Pike is not on the end nor he is he even next to Sylvester - he is the THIRD passenger from the door he entered. (Sylvester is closest to the door, then the Englishman, then Pike.) more
Quotes:
Tyler Fitzgerald: Anybody can fly plane, now here: I'll check you out. Put your little hands on the wheel there. Now put your feet on the rudder. There. Who says this ol' boy can't fly this ol' plane? Now I'm gonna make us some Old Fashioneds the old-fashioned way - the way dear old Dad used to!
Benjy Benjamin: What if something happens?
Tyler Fitzgerald: What could happen to an Old Fashioned?
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Jawan Muhabat (1971) more
Soundtrack:
Thirty-one flavors more

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37 out of 48 people found the following comment useful:-
An Epic Comedy, 4 September 1999
Author: Eric-62-2 from Morristown, NJ

This was the first time a comedy got the "epic" film treatment and after getting increasingly pretentious in his previous two dramas, Stanley Kramer just went all out for simple old-fashioned fun with the largest ensemble of comic talent he could get his hands on. How big? Consider that this is a film in which both Jack Benny and Rochester appear, but not together (also true of Phil Silvers and his "Sergeant Bilko" nemesis Paul Ford). Just about every big name in TV comedy of the 50s and 60s is here and the results, while not the greatest of its kind ("The Great Race" is a funnier film in my opinion) still manages to deliver the laughs.

It's too bad the remaining ten minutes (plus the police bulletins intermission) of the road show version still is missing, because the expanded version helped me appreciate the film a lot more than I did the first time out when I saw it on TV as a faded pan and scan atrocity. This is one film that makes great use of the widescreen.

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