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It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)

Posted By: Someonelse
Date: 7 Jul 2011 06:13:12
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy | Won Oscar | USA

With this all-star Cinerama epic, producer/director Stanley Kramer vowed to make "the comedy that would end all comedies." The story begins during a massive traffic jam, caused by reckless driver Smiler Grogan (Jimmy Durante), who, before (literally) kicking the bucket, cryptically tells the assembled drivers that he's buried a fortune in stolen loot, "under the Big W." The various motorists setting out on a mad scramble include a dentist (Sid Caesar) and his wife (Edie Adams); a henpecked husband (Milton Berle) accompanied by his mother-in-law (Ethel Merman) and his beatnik brother-in-law (Dick Shawn); a pair of comedy writers (Buddy Hackett and Mickey Rooney); and a variety of assorted nuts including a slow-wit (Jonathan Winters), a wheeler-dealer (Phil Silvers), and a pair of covetous cabdrivers (Peter Falk and Eddie "Rochester" Anderson). Monitoring every move that the fortune hunters make is a scrupulously honest police detective (Spencer Tracy).

Virtually every lead, supporting, and bit part in the picture is filled by a well-known comic actor: the laughspinning lineup also includes Carl Reiner, Terry-Thomas, Arnold Stang, Buster Keaton, Jack Benny, Jerry Lewis, and The Three Stooges, who get one of the picture's biggest laughs by standing stock still and uttering not a word. Two prominent comedians are conspicuous by their absence: Groucho Marx refused to appear when Kramer couldn't meet his price, while Stan Laurel declined because he felt he was too old-looking to be funny.

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Only the super-wide screen Cinerama format could hold all of the comedy stars in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, not to mention the title itself. Just as the bloated Cinerama feature How the West Was Won sought to outdo any Western before it, World fancied itself the comedy to end all comedies. It paraded an unparalleled list of famous comics across the screen, in both feature roles and cameos: Jimmy Durante, Milton Berle, Buster Keaton, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, Phil Silvers, Peter Falk, Jonathan Winters, Jack Benny, Carl Reiner, Jerry Lewis, Dick Shawn, The Three Stooges, and many more. The film operates under the belief that having all of these funny people on screen is enough to get laughs, and occasionally, World can't help but crash under the strain of its frenetic pace and oppressive running time. Director Stanley Kramer smartly puts the most solid of Hollywood stars, Spencer Tracy, at the heart of all the slapstick madness. This was quite a radical departure for Kramer and Tracy, considering their previous two films together had been the dramas Inherit the Wind and Judgment at Nuremberg.
Brendon Hanley, Rovi
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)

With this film, Stanley Kramer and William Rose set out to make the biggest, broadest comedy to end all comedies. Well, it didn't end comedies, but it accomplished the other goals: this is a huge movie, in multiple senses of the term: it's big because it's three hours long, big because it has one of the largest all-star casts ever assembled, and big because it was filmed in 70mm for Cinerama (giant, wide, and curved) screens. The film is essentially one humongous chase: several characters find out about a buried treasure somewhere, and they all race off in a mad scramble for the loot. It was remade with the passable Rat Race in 2001, but that film's smaller scale misses the point.

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)

The cast list is almost a who's who of 50 years of comedy. There were stars of film (Mickey Rooney, Ethel Merman), television (Milton Berle, Sid Caesar), silent comedy (Buster Keaton), stand-up (Buddy Hackett), radio (Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Jack Benny), leading men (Spencer Tracy), character actors (William Demarest, Paul Ford), stars of the past (Jimmy Durante), stars of the future (Peter Falk), mostly Americans (Phil Silvers, Jonathan Winters), but a representative across the pond, too (Terry-Thomas). Despite the large main cast, there is still room for a grocery list of celebrity cameos, like Don Knotts, Jerry Lewis, and the Three Stooges.

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)

Celebrity pig piles like this often turned out to be messes, but the mess is the whole point here. This film is so crammed full of every kind of slapstick farce imaginable that the three-hour running time feels rushed. Precious little of it is smart or witty, but it's not trying to be. The film has a kind of purity in having a single, solitary goal – to make you laugh – and it chases that goal with as much energy as a dozen other comedies put together.

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)

The anchor that holds it all together – the one straight man against which all the others play – is Spencer Tracy, the police captain who's trying to pin all the madness down. It's a remarkably human performance and better than it needed to be. The film as a whole, for that matter, is better than it needed to be.
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It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)

First of all, you can't just sit down to watch a three hour movie without knowing what you're in for. This is not your typical comedy–this is an EPIC comedy, the first of its kind, that inspired other such epics as "Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines" and "The Great Race" (which happens to be my favorite comedy–in fact, I'd like to say it's the better movie, but props go to this one for inventing the genre). And I can't speak for everyone else, but this movie leaves me laughing from start to finish.

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)

Yes, it is very long, but it NEVER has a dull moment. Even if the amazing car stunts aren't particularly funny, you can't tell me they aren't wildly entertaining. I have yet to see an action movie with better car chases than these. And yes, the slapstick is ridiculously over the top, although I can't see how that's a problem (the gas station scene is one of the funniest in movie history, in my opinion). But underneath all the slapstick and shouting, holding the whole movie together, is that incredibly cynical message. It is a movie about kind, decent folks turning into law-breaking lunatics and ruining their lives for the sake of money. The subplot with Spencer Tracey realizing his entire life has been a waste, and then ruining what life he has left, is one of the most tragic story lines I have seen. But it's also pretty darn funny.
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It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)

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