Stars: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Jimmy Durante, Mickey Rooney, Dick Shawn, Charles Lane

Director: Stanley Kramer

Summary: A dying man shares a secret which he has been harbouring for fifteen years...

When an auto-crash victim (Jimmy Durante) reveals that he's hidden a fortune of stolen cash, a star-studded traffic jam of motorists sets out ot uncover the money. The film features one of the largest collections of American comedians (and Brit Terry-Thomas) ever put together on celluloid, resulting in a wacky, far-out treasure hunt filled with sharp one-liners, plenty of pratfalls and double takes, and unstoppable slapstick humour, led by Jonathan Winters, Phil Silvers, Milton Berle, Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, Sid Caesar, and Ethel Merman, among countless others. Spencer Tracy stars as the straight cop who wouldn't mind retiring with his own little nest egg. Directed by Stanley Kramer, this film of a thousand laughs was nominated for half a dozen Academy Awards.

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Stanley Kramer's 1963 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad Worldis a sprawling comedy about a search for buried treasure by at least a dozen people--all played by well-known entertainers of their day--is the kind of mass comedy that has recently come back to the for-front of Hollywood with the film Rat Race. After a number of strangers (including Milton Berle, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Phil Silvers and others) witness a dying stranger (Jimmy Durante) identify the location of hidden money, a conflict-ridden hunt begins, watched over carefully by a suspicious cop (Spencer Tracy). The ensuing two and a half hours of mayhem has its ups and downs--some sketches and performers are certainly funnier than others. But Kramer, who is better known for socially conscious, serious cinema (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?), is in a mood for broad comic characterization, and some of his jokes are so intentionally obvious (Durante literally kicks a bucket when he dies), they could have derived from the Airplane!reject bin. Watch for lots of cameo appearances, including Jerry Lewis. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer, Scene Access
Year:	1963
Release Date:	March 11, 2002
Runtime:	148 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	16185 D V D
Keywords:	World, Mad, Comedy, General, It's
Genre:	Comedy