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It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World [VHS]
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Product Details/SpecificationsActor(s): Spencer Tracy Milton Berle Ethel Merman Mickey Rooney Sid Caesar Creators: Ernest Laszlo (Cinematographer) Stanley Kramer (Producer) Frederic Knudtson (Editor) Gene Fowler Jr. (Editor) Robert C. Jones (Editor) Tania Rose (Writer) William Rose (Writer) Director(s): Stanley Kramer
Recording label: MGM (Video & DVD) EAN: 9780792826729Binding: VHS TapeISBN: 0792826728Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC, Release Date: 1995-09-26Universal product code (UPC): 027616539830Number of discs: 2Audience rating: G (General Audience)Amazon.com Stanley Kramer's sprawling 1963 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 Hollywood hasn't made in many years. (Another example from around the same time is Blake Edwards's The Great 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 bits 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'd have a place in Airplane! Watch for lots of cameo appearances, including Jerry Lewis (who had called Kramer and asked him why he hadn't been invited to participate). --Tom Keogh
Running time: 182 minutes
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