1963 Directed by Stanley Kramer
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
Spencer Tracy Milton Berle Sid Caesar Buddy Hackett Ethel Merman Mickey Rooney Dick Shawn Phil Silvers Terry-Thomas Jonathan Winters Edie Adams Dorothy Provine Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson Jim Backus Ben Blue Joe E. Brown Alan Carney Chick Chandler Barrie Chase Lloyd Corrigan William Demarest Selma Diamond Andy Devine Peter Falk Norman Fell Paul Ford Stan Freberg Louise Glenn Leo Gorcey Show All…
Bolond, bolond világ, Bolond, bolond, bolond világ, Это безумный, безумный, безумный мир, Deu a Louca no Mundo, Das Ding - Eine total verrückte Welt, To je ale bláznivý svét, Це божевільний, божевільний, божевільний, божевільний світ, Този луд, луд, луд, луд свят, El món és boig, boig, boig, To je ale bláznivý svět, Hopla, vi lever!, Eine total, total verrückte Welt, Είναι Ένας Τρελός... Τρελός... Τρελός Κόσμος, El mundo está loco, loco, loco, El mundo está loco, loco, loco, loco, این یک دنیای دیوانه ، دیوانه ، دیوانه ، دیوانه است, Un monde fou, fou, fou, fou, מטורף, מטורף, מטורף העולם, Svijet je poludio, Questo pazzo, pazzo, pazzo, pazzo mondo, おかしなおかしなおかしな世界, 매드 매드 대소동, Ten szalony, szalony świat, O lume nebună, nebună, nebună, Этот безумный, безумный, безумный, безумный мир, En ding, ding, ding, ding värld, Çılgın Dünya, Цей шалений, шалений, шалений, шалений світ, 疯狂世界
I had one of the most exciting encounters at a movie theater EVER yesterday, so bear with me.
Yesterday, I re-watched It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World (Bland-ley Kramer, 1963) in glorious 70mm at LACMA! It's gotten a lot of hate around these parts for being cataclysmically unfunny. And while I can see why people would think so (Kramer has an awful eye for comedic direction, and the sheer pomposity of his statement that he would make "the comedy to end all comedies" makes me despise everything he stood for even more), I still really like Mad Mad World. The auteurs, if you will, are the cast, not Kramer. For every ill-timed Kramer move that brings the movie down,…
English Version below
Hört zu, liebe Kinder, ich erzähle euch nun eine Geschichte über eine Bande von habgierigen Leuten, niederträchtigen Individuen die ihre eigene Mutter verkaufen würden um an das liebe Geld zu kommen, von einer Ausgeburt an Halsabschneidern und ja Timi, die uns, wir die da am Lagerfeuer sitzen, doch so ähnlich sind.
Die Geschichte, die ich euch jetzt erzählen werde, handelt um das gemeinste und schädlichste aller Dinge auf unserer ach so schönen Erde, nämlich um die Hoffnung. Ja, ihr habt mich richtig gehört, die Hoffnung. Sie ist es die diese Gruppe von Wildfremden aufeinander los hetzt wie ein Rudel Jagdhunde auf einen Fuchs. Sie in einen Sack schmeißt und ihn zuschnürt und beobachtet, wie sie wild um…
SINEGANG WEEK #21, picked by luke
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Watched the 210-minute original cut.
There’s a reason why the film has four ‘mad’ words in its title, because it’s nothing short of maddening; it acts like a warning–that the film will take you in for a three-and-a-half-hour wild ride that you may or may not wanted, but you still consumed anyway. Watching the entire two hundred and ten minutes of pure slapstick comedy of grown adults traveling in the craziest of manners to get to a dead man’s treasure faster than their opponents can really drive anyone mad in one sitting, and perhaps, I may have become one, because I enjoyed it all throughout.…
Sinegang Weekly Pick #22
By LukeRoca
A symphony of slapstick and featuring one of the best ensembles a comedy can offer, It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a wonderfully done movie. It’s one of the films you wished you were brought up with. It defies the usual screwball comedy formula by overextending almost three hours, the exact opposite of what comedy goes for nowadays – compressed and fleeting.
Unfortunately, it would seem the enjoyability of the audience of this mad, mad, mad, mad picture depends entirely on how much they enjoy rambling and frenzied slapstick comedy. Personally, the plusses do outweigh the minuses and I thoroughly enjoyed the light watch, but I did, admittedly, count down the seconds for the three-hours (extended cut) to end.
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A scathing satire about the two competing ideologies of the Cold War as played out through groups of people fighting over a hidden treasure... just kidding! It's a bloated, overly long parade of funny faces that's not even possible to recreate now thanks to the dearth of quality comedic actors or any interest from Hollywood in making comedies this cartoonish. The rare movie that matches in content the wackiness of its poster. We watched the extended roadshow version on the Criterion set which has a cool intermission section featuring radio chatter between police that would have filled the lobby and bathrooms of the Cinerama theaters where this version played. In part due to the length, but also maybe due to…
A film ahead of its time, “It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” is peak blockbuster bloat — a full generation before movie theatres would become stuffed with endless CGI slugfests.
Director Stanley Kramer’s three and a half hour-long odyssey of moronisms was billed as the ultimate cinematic comedy. Funny, since I think its best (and only?) recurring gag is the sonic levels at which Ethel Merman’s bangle bracelets jangle over the entire sound mix.
“World,” about a scramble between strangers to unearth the moderate-sized buried treasure of a dead man, aims for slapstick appeal in its portrayal of a frenetic race to fortune.
But what “World’s” version of slapstick amounts to is a tone deaf person singing through the entirety…
ENGLISH below
Ich habe "Eine total, total, total verrückte Welt" heute zum ersten Mal auf der großen Leinwand gesehen und war wieder einmal überwältigt!
Diese Komödie aus dem Jahr 1963, bei der Stanley Kramer Regie führte, geht bis an die Grenzen des absurden Humors. Mit einem Ensemble, zu dem Namen wie Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar und Ethel Merman gehören, ist der Film voll von verrückten Figuren und verrückten Handlungssträngen.
Der Film erzählt die Geschichte einer Gruppe von Menschen, die alle auf der Suche nach einem Schatz sind, der irgendwo in Kalifornien vergraben sein soll. Die verschiedenen Charaktere werden in einer wilden Verfolgungsjagd durch Kalifornien gezeigt und jeder von ihnen kämpft mit seiner eigenen Herausforderung, den Schatz zu finden.
Die Handlung…
Criterion Collection Spine #692
(3 Hour Plus Extended Cut)
It's a mad dash for the cash as some of the biggest names in 1960s comedy collide in this hilarious whopper of large cast road movie.
"Then what happens next? I'll tell you what happens: Then they all decide that I'm supposed to get a smaller share! That I'm somebody extra special stupid, or something! That they don't even care if it's a democracy! And in a democracy, it don't matter how stupid you are, you still get an equal share!"
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, will always be near and dear to me since it is likely the first movie that I ever saw that ended up…
aside from the terrific stunts, i enjoyed this as a classic-TV-addicted kid because of all the cameos. that's still fun, but man, what an epic sit. you're better off just watching the last few minutes of "Homer the Vigilante".
