It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World with Spencer Tracy: DVD Cover
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Director: Stanley Kramer Cast: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett

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  • DVD Release Date: 10/07/2003
  • Original Release: 1963
  • Rating: Rated G

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Features

Closed Caption; English and French 5.1 surround; English, French and Spanish subtitles

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Side #1 --
1. Main Title [4:20]
2. Big Dubya [4:55]
3. Mum's the Word [5:16]
4. Head Games [5:20]
5. Captain Culpepper [2:07]
6. Splits [6:48]
7. Reckless [4:13]
8. Other Means [5:58]
9. Piece of the Pie [4:25]
10. Dirty Lies [6:07]
11. Demolition [4:03]
12. Shake It Up [5:37]
13. Full Circle [5:31]
14. Downhill [4:26]
15. Equal Treatment [4:17]
16. Mixed Nuts [4:51]
17. Big Bang [1:44]
18. High Tension [4:31]
19. Intermission [:43]
20. Out of Control [4:22]
21. Emergency Priority [4:01]
22. Loopy [5:10]
23. Out Alive [7:07]
24. Arrival [6:03]
25. W [5:34]
26. The Dig [:26]
27. To the Police [7:10]
28. Leniency [4:28]
29. Crooked Cop [2:50]
30. Mad for Money [2:39]
31. Airborne Hag [3:31]
32. The End [8:17]

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Editorial Reviews

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. Available for years in its 154-minute general release version, the film was restored to its roadshow length of 175 minutes on home video; the search goes on for a missing Buster Keaton routine, reportedly excised on the eve of the picture's premiere. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Worldby Anonymous

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April 10, 2008: I have been watching this movie at least once a year since it's release in the 1960's and each time I pick up something that I missed before. Obviously when I saw it as a kid, I could really only laugh at the physical parts, but as an adult-oh my gravy-Ethel Merman is every man's mother in law nightmare! And the scene with her son Dick Shawn crying in the car"your baby's coming for you mama" -just too funny. There are so many lines in this movie that you will find yourself repeating to people and just laugh and laugh. Good clean fun without one curse word or nudity. Why can't they make movies like this anymore? A movie for all ages-don't miss this classic.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Worldby Anonymous

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April 14, 2007: The first time I saw It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, I couldn't stop the laughing. Even now when I still watch it, I can't control my laughter. This movie definetly deserves 5 stars!


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