IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD

Details

• Release Year: 1963
• Genre: Action/Adventure, Comedy
• Plot: Stanley Kramer followed his Oscar-winning Judgment at Nuremberg with this sobering investigation of American greed. Ah, who are we kidding? It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, about a group of strangers fighting tooth and nail over buried treasure, is the most grandly harebrained movie ever made, a pileup of slapstick and borscht-belt-y one-liners performed by a nonpareil cast, including Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Spencer Tracy, Jonathan Winters, and a boatload of other playing-to-the-rafters comedy legends. For sheer scale of silliness, Kramer’s wildly uncharacteristic film is unlike any other, an exhilarating epic of tomfoolery.
• Cast: 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, Andy Devine, Selma Diamond, Peter Falk, Norman Fell, Paul Ford, Stan Freberg, Louise Glenn, Leo Gorcey, Sterling Holloway, Marvin Kaplan, Edward Everett Horton, Buster Keaton, Don Knotts, Charles Lane, Mike Mazurki, Charles McGraw, Cliff Norton, Zasu Pitts, Carl Reiner, Madlyn Rhue, Roy Roberts, Arnold Stang, Nick Stewart, The Three Stooges, Sammee Tong, Jesse White, Jimmy Durante, Morey Amsterdam, Wayne Anderson, Gordon Armitage, Phil Arnold, Al Bain, Jack Benny, Paul Birch, George Bruggeman, Albert Cavens, Noble 'Kid' Chissell, John Clarke, Stanley Clements, Joe DeRita, King Donovan, Minta Durfee, Roy Engel, Larry Fine, James Flavin, Sig Frohlich, Nicholas Georgiade, Rudy Germane, Bobby Gilbert, Stacy Harris, Don C. Harvey, Al Haskell, Moe Howard, John Indrisano, Allen Jenkins, Robert Karnes, Tom Kennedy, Harry Lauter, Ben Lessy, Bobo Lewis, Jerry Lewis, Bob Mazurki, Tyler McVey, Ralph Moratz, Monty O'Grady, Barbara Pepper, Anthony Redondo, Elliott Reid, Eddie Rosson, George Russell, Eddie Ryder, Jean Sewell, Charles Sherlock, Eddie Smith, Cap Somers, Paul Sorensen, Ray Spiker, Max Wagner, Doodles Weaver, Lennie Weinrib, Stanley Kramer, William Rose, Tania Rose
• Director: Stanley Kramer
• Runtime: 2:43
• Company: The Criterion Collection, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie