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)Cast
Spencer Tracy
USA
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Fury (1936)
Milton Berle
USA
Best movies:
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Sun Valley Serenade (1941)
Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
Sid Caesar
USA
Best movies:
Grease (1978)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Silent Movie (1976)
Buddy Hackett
USA
Best movies:
The Little Mermaid (1989)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Paulie (1998)
Ethel Merman
USA
Best movies:
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
Airplane! (1980)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Mickey Rooney
USA
Best movies:
Captains Courageous (1937)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Strike Up the Band (1940)
Dick Shawn
USA
Best movies:
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
The Opposite Sex (1956)
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966)
Phil Silvers
USA
Best movies:
Strike Up the Band (1940)
Summer Stock (1950)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Jonathan Winters
USA
Best movies:
Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation (1992)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Viva Max! (1969)
Edie Adams
USA
Best movies:
The Apartment (1960)
Up in Smoke (1978)
Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)
Dorothy Provine
USA
Best movies:
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
That Darn Cat! (1965)
The Great Race (1965)
Lloyd Corrigan
USA
Best movies:
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
It (1927)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
USA
Best movies:
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Love Is News (1937)
Jezebel (1938)
Jim Backus
USA
Best movies:
Crazy Mama (1975)
Deep in My Heart (1954)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Ben Blue
Canada
Best movies:
Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
For Me and My Gal (1942)
William Demarest
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
The Mountain (1956)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Peter Falk
USA
Best movies:
Griffin and Phoenix: A Love Story (1976) (TV movie)
Prescription: Murder (1968) (TV movie)
Wings of Desire (1987)
Sterling Holloway
USA
Best movies:
Bambi (1942)
Dumbo (1941)
The Jungle Book (1967)
Edward Everett Horton
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Holiday (1938)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)