It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) |
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| 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
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1963
Spencer Tracy
(as Capt. C. G. Culpepper)
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1963
Milton Berle
(as J. Russell Finch)
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Sid Caesar
(as Melville Crump)
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Buddy Hackett
(as Benjy Benjamin)
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Ethel Merman
(as Mrs. Marcus)
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Mickey Rooney
(as Ding Bell)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
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Phil Silvers
(as Otto Meyer)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
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1963
Terry Thomas
(as J. Algernon Hawthorne)
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).
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 Quotes:
Ding Bell: What?
Tyler Fitzgerald: Something's happened to my eyes. I-I-I cahhn't - I cahhn't see.
Ding Bell: You cahhn't see? He cahhn't see.
Benjy Benjamin: Must be an eye cold.
Tyler Fitzgerald: George! George!
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...!
Miner: That's the trouble, the doc's not sure. He says whatever it is, she's too sick even to be moved. She needs this special stuff and we haven't got a phone so I went to get it and that's when... Slow down, the turning is just up here.
Otto Meyer: Turning? You mean it's off the road?
Miner: Only a mile.
Otto Meyer: Now look, Pal, I'm in a hurry...
Miner: HOLD IT! Stop the car. Now listen, buddy, I'm sorry about your problems. But the doc said to hurry and this is my wife. Now come on, we turn right here.
Otto Meyer: But there isn't even a road...
Miner: LISTEN! Don't force me to get rough!
[Rips the steering wheel ring off]
Miner: Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to bust up your car.
Otto Meyer: That's alright. You say it's a mile? Heck, a mile ain't asking too much.
J. Russell Finch: Yeah, one little thing.
Ding Bell: What little thing?
J. Russell Finch: Yeah, what little thing?
Mrs. Marcus: We can all count, can't we? There were 8 of us there.
J. Russell Finch: She's right. There were 8 of us there.
J. Algernon Hawthorne: Whatever the outcome of the day I shall never forget that you hit me when I wasn't even looking!
J. Russell Finch: [smiling] yeah.