Its A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Starring: Milton Berle, Spencer Tracy Director: Stanley Kramer Original UK Premiere: 1963 Dvd Release: 11th March, 2002 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a comedy movie that followed the Hollywood trend in the 1960s of producing gigantic & epic films as a way to woo audiences into movie theaters. Television had sapped the regular moviegoing audience & box office revenues were dropping & the major studios experimented with a number of gimmicks to attract audiences, including widescreen films. It premiered on November 7, 1963. Not only was Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World filmed in Cinerama, it also had an all-star cast, with literally dozens of major comedy stars from all eras of cinema making appearances in the film. Edie Adams as Monica Crump, wife of Melville Crump. Eddie Rochester Anderson as a cab driver. Milton Berle as edible seaweed salesman, J Russell Finch. Buddy Hackett as gambler, Benjy Benjamin. Ethel Merman as Mrs. Marcus, mother-in-law of J Russell Finch. Dorothy Provine as Emmaline Finch, wife of J Russell Finch. Dick Shawn as Sylvester Marcus, Emmalines brother. Terry-Thomas as Lt. Col. Algernon Hawthorne. Jonathan Winters as truck driver, Lenny Pike. Posters Of Its A Mad Mad Mad Mad World

Stanley Kramers 1963 It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World is 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 witness a dying stranger identify the location of hidden money, a conflict-ridden hunt begins, watched over carefully by a suspicious cop . The ensuing two & a half hours of mayhem has its ups & downs, some sketches & performers are certainly funnier than others. But Kramer, who is better known for socially conscious, serious cinema , is in a mood for broad comic characterization, & some of his jokes are so intentionally obvious , they could have derived from the Airplane! reject bin. Watch for lots of cameo appearances, including Jerry Lewis. -

Milton Berle was an extremely popular American comedian, whose career spanned vaudeville, radio, television & film. His first great television success was as the headliner for Texaco Star Theater on NBC from 1948 to June 14, 1955. Berle became known as Mr. Television & Uncle Miltie. By 1960 he was unable to find new television work, so he played Las Vegas, made nightclub appearances, appeared on Broadway in Herb Gardner s The Goodbye People in 1968 & appeared in many films. These included Lets Make Love, with Marilyn Monroe & Yves Montand ; Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ; The Loved One ; The Oscar ; Lepke ; Woody Allen s Broadway Danny Rose ; & Driving Me Crazy. He also had one guest role in the hit teen television series Beverly Hills 90210. In later life he presided as master of ceremonies for many roasts & other gatherings. Berle had one of the greatest joke collections in the world, with about 6,5 million jokes on computer. The books Milton Berles Private Joke File & The Rest of the Best of Milton Berles Private Joke File each had 10,000 of these jokes. Posters Of Milton Berle

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Spencer Bonaventure Tracy was an American film actor who appeared in 74 films from 1930 through the 1960s. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the second son of a truck salesman. At the beginning of World War I he left school to enlist in the Navy, but remained in Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia throughout the war. Afterward he attended Ripon College where he appeared in a play entitled The Truth & decided on acting as a career. In the early 1920s he attended the Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. For several years he performed in stock in Michigan, Canada & Ohio. Finally in 1930 he appeared in a hit play on Broadway, The Last Mile. In 1923 he married Louise Treadwell & they had two children, John & Louise. In 1930, director John Ford saw him in the play The Last Mile & signed him to do Up the River for Fox Pictures. Shortly after that he & his family moved to Hollywood, where he made over 35 films in 5 years. In 1935 he signed with MGM & won the Oscar for Best Actor two years in a row, for Captains Courageous & Boys Town. Posters Of Guess Whos Coming To Dinner

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