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Jan 21, 2014 · It has been a little more than a half-century since "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" was first unleashed upon the public and after all that time, it still remains one of the oddest cinematic adventures in Hollywood history—a jumbo-sized comedy directed by a man known primarily for making earnest dramas about the human condition, featuring a cast jam-packed with comedy legends and produced ...
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Buy It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World on Fandango at Home. The story begins during a massive traffic jam, caused by reckless driver Smiler Grogan (Jimmy Durante), who, before kicking the bucket ...
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Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 9, 2014. Nathan Rabin The Dissolve. It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World remains a technological and creative marvel for reasons beyond its sometimes fitful ...
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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 per...
The general release version of Stanley Kramer’s It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Worldreceives an impressive Blu-ray from Criterion in a new deluxe dual-format edition (five discs in total.) The film is presented in its original aspect ratio of 2.76:1 on a dual-layer Blu-ray disc with a 1080p/24hz high-definition transfer, and on a dual-layer DVD with a s...
Criterion delivers the original 5.1 surround track in Dolby Digital on the DVD and DTS-HD MA on the Blu-ray. It’s a loud movie, very over the top, and the surround track certainly captures that. Dialogue remains primarily in the front center speaker while music seems to be divvied up between the speakers, and both are delivered clearly with superb ...
It sounds as though the Fox/MGM Blu-ray shares the same audio and video transfer as this edition, so for many that might be good enough. I haven’t seen that edition, but I think it’s safe to say that the Criterion edition has it beat in one area, and it’s the area most fans of the film will be thrilled with: the supplements! Criterion loads the sup...
Despite one’s feelings on the film it’s hard to deny that Criterion has done an incredible job on this edition. With such a sharp audio and video transfer, and a wealth of supplements, including a reconstruction of the film’s longer version, this comes with a high recommendation. BUY AT:
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a 1963 American epic comedy film produced and directed by Stanley Kramer with a story and screenplay by William Rose and Tania Rose. The film, starring Spencer Tracy with an all-star cast of comedians, is about the madcap pursuit of a suitcase full of stolen cash by a colorful group of strangers.
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.
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February 16, 2019. age 10+. Mad About It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. This movie is good clean humor with an unparalleled comic cast hamming it up in a movie with an outrageous plot as a vehicle. Just good fun that incorporates a moral message along the way, completely inobtrusively and in an upbeat manner.
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