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

MPAA rating
G (MPAA)

Format
DVD

Aspect ratio
Widescreen & Full Frame

Number of discs
1

Release date
August 5, 2008

Running time
161 minutes

Original language
English

Dubbing
French

UPC
883904109204

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Director:
Stanley Kramer
Cast:
Sterling Holloway, Ethel Merman, Peter Falk, Jimmy Durante, William Demarest, Terry-Thomas, Milton Berle, Phil Silvers, Leo Gorcey, Carl Reiner, Buddy Hackett, Buster Keaton, Three Stooges, Jerry Lewis, Mickey Rooney, Paul Ford, Sid Caesar, Spencer Tracy, Edward Everett Horton, Jonathan Winters, Dorothy Provine, ZaSu Pitts, Dick Shawn
Genre:
Comedy
Synopsis:
This wacky comedy classic directed by Stanley Kramer features one of the largest collections of American comedians ever brought together on celluloid, resulting in the kind of far-out comic gem that only the 1960s could dish out. Filled with sharp one-liners, plenty of pratfalls and double takes, and unstoppable slapstick humor, this film never stops entertaining. The laughs come mostly from vehicle accidents of all kinds: car crashes, bike accidents, airplane failures, and almost everything else imaginable. But a good amount of humor is also lent to major wrestling matches, terrible mix-ups and misunderstandings, and increasingly absurd personalities such as Mrs. Marcus (Ethel Merman), the screeching and impossible mother-in-law. The film even laughs at itself, showing its flimsy cardboard sets as characters punch out walls or accidentally explode whole boxes of dynamite. The cast includes such favorites as Jonathan Winters, Phil Silvers, Milton Berle, Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, Sid Caesar, Spencer Tracey, Terry-Thomas, and Dick Shawn, among countless others.

Brilliantly simple, the plot concerns a caravan of motorists who witness a terrible accident on a dangerously windy California highway. The auto-crash victim (Jimmy Durante) reveals in his dying words that he has hidden a fortune of stolen cash, sending the drivers on a rambunctious race to see who can claim the loot first!
Notes:
DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case - Sensormatic
Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.78
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
(Unspecified) - English, French
Canadian; Sensormatic; Widescreen

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

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