It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray) G
The comedy event of the century, In glorious 70mm!
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: G
- Run Time: 2 hours, 43 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: October 10, 2017
- Originally Released: 1963
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Spencer Tracy, Jimmy Durante, Ethel Merman & Milton Berle | |
Performer: | Buster Keaton, Mickey Rooney, Leo Gorcey, Peter Falk, Zasu Pitts, Sterling Holloway, Edward Everett Horton, Jonathan Winters, Carl Reiner, Phil Silvers, William Demarest, Buddy Hackett, Sid Caesar, Dick Shawn, Paul Ford, Dorothy Provine & Terry-Thomas | |
Directed by | Stanley Kramer | |
Edited by | Robert C. Jones, Frederic Knudtson & Gene Fowler, Jr. | |
Screenwriting by | William Rose & Tania Rose | |
Composition by | Ernest Gold | |
Art Direction by | Gordon Gurnell | |
Cameo: | Jerry Lewis & The Three Stooges | |
Produced by | Stanley Kramer | |
Director of Photography: | Ernest Laszlo |
Entertainment Reviews:
...[An] all-star epic....The film is also one of the zippiest of its length ever made...
USA Today
Stanley Kramer strikes out again with this elephantine 1963 attempt at uproarious comedy.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 5/5 --
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is one of the best ensemble comedies and the star-studded film remains a classic to this day.
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Solzy at the Movies
The sheer magnitude of the project lends it momentum, though, and there are enough giddy highs that it’s had a strong cult following ever since its release in 1963.
A.V. Club
It's an interesting example of the evacuated shell of a bad comedy being seized by seriousness and turned over to the service of a deadly Puritan theme.
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The New York Review of Books
Rating: 3.5/5 --
So many excellent actors and stunt men do so much in this film that it is beyond my space allowance to begin to credit them.
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New York Times
The first film shot in the single-strip Ultra Panavision format, MAD WORLD echoes the episodic travelogue structure that the film historian John Belton sees as inherent to Cinerama.
New York Times
Product Description:
This wacky comedy classic directed by Stanley Kramer features one of the largest collections of American comedians ever brought together on celluloid, resulting in the kind of far-out comic gem that only the 1960s could dish out. Filled with sharp one-liners, plenty of pratfalls and double takes, and unstoppable slapstick humor, this film never stops entertaining. The laughs come mostly from vehicle accidents of all kinds: car crashes, bike accidents, airplane failures, and almost everything else imaginable. But a good amount of humor is also lent to major wrestling matches, terrible mix-ups and misunderstandings, and increasingly absurd personalities such as Mrs. Marcus (Ethel Merman), the screeching and impossible mother-in-law. The film even laughs at itself, showing its flimsy cardboard sets as characters punch out walls or accidentally explode whole boxes of dynamite. The cast includes such favorites as Jonathan Winters, Phil Silvers, Milton Berle, Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, Sid Caesar, Spencer Tracey, Terry-Thomas, and Dick Shawn, among countless others.
Brilliantly simple, the plot concerns a caravan of motorists who witness a terrible accident on a dangerously windy California highway. The auto-crash victim (Jimmy Durante) reveals in his dying words that he has hidden a fortune of stolen cash, sending the drivers on a rambunctious race to see who can claim the loot first!
Brilliantly simple, the plot concerns a caravan of motorists who witness a terrible accident on a dangerously windy California highway. The auto-crash victim (Jimmy Durante) reveals in his dying words that he has hidden a fortune of stolen cash, sending the drivers on a rambunctious race to see who can claim the loot first!
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- UPC: 715515204712
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