USA,
1963, 197 min
(Director's cut: 154 min)
Directed by:
Stanley KramerScreenplay:
William RoseCinematography:
Ernest LaszloComposer:
Ernest GoldCast:
Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Dick Shawn, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas, Jonathan Winters, Edie Adams (more)VOD (2)
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Stanley Kramer followed his Oscar-winning Judgment at Nuremberg with this sobering investigation of American greed. Ah, who are we kidding? It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, about a group of strangers fighting tooth and nail over buried treasure is the most grandly hare-brained movie ever made, a pileup of slapstick and borscht-belt-y one-liners performed by a nonpareil cast, including Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Spencer Tracy, Jonathan Winters and a boatload of other playing-to-the-rafters comedy legends. For sheer scale of silliness, Kramer’s wildly uncharacteristic film is unlike any other, an exhilarating epic of tomfoolery. (Criterion)
(more)Awards
- Winner
- Nominations
Academy Awards
- 1964 - Best Sound Editing
- 1964 - Ernest Laszlo (Best Cinematography (Color))
- 1964 - Best Achievement in Film Editing
- 1964 - Dimitri Tiomkin (Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score))
- 1964 - Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)
- 1964 - Best Sound Mixing
Golden Globes
- 1964 - Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
- 1964 - Jonathan Winters (Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy)
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
- 1963 - Best Film