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

Sterling Holloway

Marvin Kaplan

Edward Everett Horton

Buster Keaton

Charles Lane

Don Knotts

Mike Mazurki

Charles McGraw

Cliff Norton

Zasu Pitts

Carl Reiner

Madlyn Rhue

Roy Roberts

Arnold Stang

Nick Stewart

Moe Howard

Larry Fine

Joe DeRita

Sammee Tong

Jimmy Durante

Jack Benny

Jerry Lewis

Doodles Weaver

Jesse White

Al Bain

Stanley Clements

Max Wagner

Morey Amsterdam

Lovyss Bradley

Dick Cherney

John Clarke

Roy Engel

Nicholas Georgiade

Stacy Harris

Don C. Harvey

John Indrisano

Allen Jenkins

Tom Kennedy

Charles Sherlock

Paul Sorensen

Lennie Weinrib

Rudy Germane

Stanley Kramer

William Rose

Tania Rose

Ernest Gold

Ernest Laszlo

Gene Fowler Jr.

Robert C. Jones

Frederic Knudtson

Paul Baxley

Tap Canutt

Max Balchowsky

Richard E. Butler

Bill Couch

Dick Crockett

May Boss

Carol Daniels

George DeNormand

Gary Epper

Dick Geary

Stephanie Epper

Sol Gorss

Chuck Hayward

John Hudkins

Gil Perkins

Jack Perkins

Regis Parton

Wally Rose

George Robotham

Fred Scheiwiller

Tom Steele

Helen Thurston

Jesse Wayne

Dale Van Sickel

Paul Stader

Alex Sharp

Carl Saxe

Eddie Smith

Joe Pronto

Walt La Rue

Rudolph Sternad

Gordon Gurnee

Joseph Kish

Bill Thomas

George Lane

Lynn F. Reynolds

Buddy Van Horn

Loren Janes

Bob Herron

Bud Westmore

Paul Mantz

Frank Tallman

Ivan Volkman

Anne P. Kramer

Clem Beauchamp

John K. Kean

Walter Elliott

Bud Pine

Bert Chervin

George R. Batcheller Jr.

Charles Scott

Charles F. Wheeler

Dick Johnson

Joe King

Art Dunham

Morris Rosen

Marshall Schlom

Joseph Edesa

Martin Kashuk

Art Cole

Clem Portman

Roy Granville

Vinton Vernon

Connie Nichols

Saul Bass

Carey Loftin

Irman Roberts

Hal McAlpin

Farciot Edouart

Linwood G. Dunn

James Gordon

Danny Lee

Mack David

Action

Adventure

Comedy

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

United Artists

Casey Productions

United States of America

English

It's every man (and old bag) for himself.

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World is one of those films that as a child I went to the cinema to watch and then proceeded to talk about it enthusiastically in the playground for weeks afterwards. So I find myself here in my middle age with mixed feelings after just revisiting this extravaganza for the first time in many a year.

It's very much a film of three parts to me, and each part impacts differently on the entertainment scale. The first part of this multi cast piece is as madcap and as mirthful as you could honestly wish to see, but this sadly ill prepares you for a middle part that outstays its welcome to the point that you can't believe they stretched it to an original cut of 3 hours! The final third of the film saves it from smug overkill because by now you have invested so much time into the film, you thank the gods for any sort of frivolity - and thankfully the film does lift you back up to the happy place that you had visited an hour previously.

The cast are fine, where some brilliant shows are mixed in with the merely acceptable ones, and I wouldn't want to be so churlish as to dissect each actors respective show. However, as a Phil Silvers fan I'm rewarded plenty enough and as a Spencer Tracy acolyte I'm burning candles again in his honour. Yet it's Ethel Merman as Mrs. Marcus that lives long and glorious in the memory here, and honestly I feel the film is worth a watch purely just for her. The set pieces are fine and the stunts are truly a feast for the eyes, but ultimately one comes away thinking this film should have been a masterpiece instead of the overkilled and overlong experience that it is. 6.5/10

_**Epic screwball comedy-adventure with an all-star cast is overlong**_

Released in 1963, “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” is grand comedy-adventure about several motorists in the remote desert of Southern Cal learning of a buried cache of moolah in Santa Rosita State Park along the coast 200 miles south. A mad scramble to get to the money ensues. 

The cast is superlative with too many old-time greats to cite. The opening is compelling, the first act culminating with an amusing sequence where Jonathan Winters’ character levels a gas station in the desert. The wild close with the fire truck ladder and corresponding hospital gag is also superb entertainment. The middle of the film, while fun, can get tedious because emptyheaded shenanigans can only hold your interest for so long. In other words, the movie’s just too long for such madcap misadventures.

Nevertheless, it’s a fun, energetic flick with top-rate locations and this is the only way to see so many classic celebrities on screen together.

The theatrical cut runs 2 hours, 41 minutes whereas the longest cut runs 3 hours, 30 minutes. There are several other cuts. It was shot entirely in various areas of Southern Cal.

GRADE: B-

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

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