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Stanley Kramer strikes out again with this elephantine 1963 attempt at uproarious comedy.
Don Druker, Chicago Reader
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
The biggest entertainment ever to rock the screen with laughter!
1963 · 3h 12m · Approved
Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Directed by
Stanley Kramer
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Stanley Kramer Director
- Spencer Tracy as C. G. Culpepper
- Milton Berle as J. Russell Finch
- Sid Caesar as Melville Crump
- Buddy Hackett as Benjy Benjamin
- Ethel Merman as Mrs. Marcus
- Mickey Rooney as Ding 'Dingy' Bell
- Dick Shawn as Sylvester Marcus
- Phil Silvers as Otto Meyer
- Terry-Thomas as J. Algernon Hawthorne
- Jonathan Winters as Lennie Pike
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
71%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The comic competition is so keen that it is impossible to single out any one participant as outstanding.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
So many excellent actors and stunt men do so much in this film that it is beyond my space allowance to begin to credit them.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Fresh
Kramer's 'comedy to end all comedy' stretches its material to snapping point but offers happy hours of star-spotting.
Time Out
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