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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
General Release Version + Extended Version
3xDVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9 | 02:43:15 + 03:17:20 | 22,6 Gb
Audio: English AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subtitles: English SDH
Genre: Adventure, Comedy | The Criterion Collection #692
General Release Version + Extended Version
3xDVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9 | 02:43:15 + 03:17:20 | 22,6 Gb
Audio: English AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subtitles: English SDH
Genre: Adventure, Comedy | The Criterion Collection #692
Director: Stanley Kramer
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Ethel Merman
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 harebrained 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.
An insistently zany relic of Hollywood's bigger-longer-louder transitional era, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World tried to be "the ultimate comedy" by turning the cobwebbed slapstick-chase scenario into three hours of all-star, blunt-force bedlam. Made by producer-director Stanley Kramer, and shot in the mega-widescreen format Ultra Panavision 70, at its worst it bears the self-conscious mark of a filmmaker who'd never done light entertainment before (Kramer's initial title for the project was Something a Little Less Serious ). The end result seems more like a recreation of the D-Day invasion than a tribute to the legacy of American film comedy, notwithstanding cameo appearances by everyone from Jerry Lewis to the Three Stooges, and the efforts of a cast heavy on erstwhile TV stars (Sid Caesar, Milton Berle, Phil Silvers), often given gratingly narrow business to perform (Broadway battleship Ethel Merman sings not a note, but shouts nearly nonstop as a mother-in-law joke come numbingly to life). When shown footage of the ace work done by stunt supervisor Carey Loftin and crew before principal photography began, one of the actors presciently asked, "What do you need us for?"![It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World (1963) [The Criterion Collection #692] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/ee/fb/002bfbee_medium.jpeg)
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And yet, despite the overall excess, about half of the film does work, mostly when the comics are permitted to bring some nuance or eccentricity to the dialogue scenes between the bouts of vehicular mayhem (both automotive and aerial) as a dozen characters race 200 miles across the California desert after witnessing the death of a hood (Jimmy Durante) who wills them $350,000 buried in a coastal park. Two funnymen who had negligible film careers, Jonathan Winters and Buddy Hackett, stand out regularly in scenes with as many as 10 actors crowding into the frame. The rubber-faced Hackett, paired with Mickey Rooney as nitwits who charter the plane of a dead-drunk pilot and buzz the airport for hours when he passes out, slays with punchlines as simple as "He thought this fella was his aunt," or just by grinning beatifically in a moment of confidence at the cockpit wheel.![It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World (1963) [The Criterion Collection #692] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/ef/fb/002bfbef_medium.jpeg)
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Winters, as a childlike trucker whose bare-handed leveling of a gas station is justly celebrated as the film's most epic set piece, is equally memorable furiously riding a child's bicycle down a solitary roadway, or objecting to his fellow greedheads' plans not to "declare": "Even businessmen, who rob and cheat and steal from people every day—even they have to pay taxes!" And Caesar, playing some subtle chords of frustration as well as engaging in full-blown mugging familiar from his '50s work as king of the live-TV sketch, scores as a counterproductively rational dentist who persists in devising formulas for splitting the money fairly. (As his wife, Edie Adams gets scant opportunity to show her chops as a first-rate comedian; like Dorothy Provine as Berle's disapproving young spouse, she's mostly a bystander.)![It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World (1963) [The Criterion Collection #692] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/f0/fb/002bfbf0_medium.jpeg)
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Presumably meant to anchor the silliness in William and Tania Rose's script is a police captain monitoring the frenetic dash from his headquarters, played by a frail-looking Spencer Tracy in his next-to-last film. For the first two acts, it's a pedestrian part dominated by sitcom-style family squabbles conducted on the phone, but once Tracy swoops in to deceive the treasure hunters, the film kicks into a high-gear climax that features some of its most spectacular stunts and effects, with the loot-lusting clowns bouncing off utility wires and being flung from a fire ladder through windows and into fountains. (And in the best of the cameos, Buster Keaton scoots about precisely as he did in 1923.)![It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World (1963) [The Criterion Collection #692] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/f1/fb/002bfbf1_medium.jpeg)
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Doubtlessly, Kramer felt justified when his expensive comedy of overkill made a tidy profit at the global box office, but in the long run its influence on baby-boom filmmakers like John Landis and Ivan Reitman, who turned effects-driven blockbuster comedy into an increasingly dehumanized genre, feels pernicious. The film spins into some merriment via big-budget elbow grease, but its "classic" status is nostalgic hype that's properly reserved for the graceful, less mechanical art fashioned by Keaton, Tracy, Caesar, and others in their heyday.![It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World (1963) [The Criterion Collection #692] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/f2/fb/002bfbf2_medium.jpeg)
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For a three-hour, epoch-ending epic made by a comedy neophyte, this film yields a treasure of showbiz lore on a par with the loot buried under the Big W.
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The story is simple: a dying man's words lead to a race for $350,000 in cash buried near California's Santa Rosita Beach. Five witnesses decide to split the cash upon arrival…but they can't agree on distribution, so it's every man for himself. Featuring a cast of over 100 comedians (including starring roles for Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Mickey Rooney, Buddy Hackett, Sid Caesar, Edie Adams, Ethel Merman and newcomer Jonathan Winters, among others), Stanley Kramer's monumental It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) is a raucous, chaotic comedy that's maintained a rabid following over the past 50 years. Though Kramer is perhaps better known for two sobering dramas that bookend Mad World's release (1961's Judgment at Nuremberg and 1967's Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, as well as 1965's Ship of Fools, which all won multiple Academy Awards), this remains one of the most ambitious and unconventional films of its era.![It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World (1963) [The Criterion Collection #692] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/f4/fb/002bfbf4_medium.jpeg)
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Clocking in at a whopping 161 minutes–-and even longer, depending which cut you're familiar with–-the General Release Version was initially trimmed against the director's wishes for its nationwide release. A financial gamble in every sense of the word, Mad World nonetheless did huge business at the box office and earned a successful re-release in 1970. The film's formula of "throw everything at the wall to see what sticks" seemed to pay off…and whether it's a countless number of celebrity cameos (including but not limited to Jack Benny, Norman Fell, Stan Freberg, Buster Keaton, Don Knotts, Jerry Lewis, Carl Reiner, The Shirelles, Arnold Stang, Sammee Tong and The Three Stooges), varied locations or a continuous barrage of slapstick, the unpredictable and kinetic end result is truly something to behold.![It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World (1963) [The Criterion Collection #692] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/f5/fb/002bfbf5_medium.jpeg)
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Of course, not everything works. Those new to Mad World–-or, at the very least, those who haven't seen it in many years–-may struggle to connect the dots from start to finish, as the non-stop game of "spot the celebrity" can't help but overshadow the production itself. The pacing of this 161-minute "general release" version (which, incidentally, serves as the main feature on this Criterion release) is predictably hit-or-miss, but the film's infectious fun manages to dissolve most any conventional quibbles. Bottom line: if you don't chuckle when Stanley Grogan (Jimmy Durante) literally kicks the bucket, you're probably not the target audience for Mad World. If you don't crack a smile when Lennie Pike (Winters) destroys a gas station piece by piece, turn it off immediately. Mad World isn't even close to "serious" and it's not bulletproof from start to finish…but even if you don't laugh at everything, you're bound to laugh at something.![It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World (1963) [The Criterion Collection #692] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/f7/fb/002bfbf7_medium.jpeg)
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Though technically presented as a bonus feature, Criterion's package also includes a 197-minute Extended Cut on Disc 2. Call it "alternate", "reconstructed" or even "Roadshow", as it attempts to replicate the eponymous 210-minute version that was seen before the film was trimmed for its nationwide theatrical run. In years past, separate VHS and laserdisc releases have attempted–-with the director's input, no less–-to do the same, resulting in a 182-minute "Special Edition" that remains exclusive to those formats. This slightly longer version pulls together a number of previously lost scenes and snippets from around the globe, though many are incomplete or of lesser quality. Faded or incorrect colors, audio dropouts, forced subtitles, audio accompanied by still images, and other anomalies can be spotted during this 197-minute experience, but the trade-off for "new faces and places" will be more than worth it for die-hard disciples.![It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World (1963) [The Criterion Collection #692] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/f8/fb/002bfbf8_medium.jpeg)
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Those new to the film (or those who haven't seen it in a while) will want to start with the "general release" version on Disc 1, and then maybe even check out a new restoration demo produced by Criterion as a supplement for this release. Either way, you should try out the extended cut at least once to see if "too much of a good thing" applies in this case. The phrase certainly doesn't apply for Criterion's release, which serves up a top-quality A/V presentation and a host of new and vintage supplements. Like the film itself, this exhaustive release throws everything at the wall just to see what'll stick…and, as it turns out, most of it does.![It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World (1963) [The Criterion Collection #692] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/f9/fb/002bfbf9_medium.jpeg)
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Stanley Kramer's It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World passed the half-century mark last year, but Criterion's fantastic edition feels anything but late to the party. The madcap main feature has held up quite nicely over the years…and though its target audience has dwindled a bit since then, it remains a popular favorite among those with a soft spot for chaotic, free-wheeling comedy. Serving up two different versions of Mad World and an entertaining, informative collection of bonus features, this definitive package will absolutely thrill fans of all ages. Without question, a truly unique release for a production that occupies its own little corner of film history. DVD Talk Collector Series.
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Special Features:
DISC ONE - 7,58 Gb:
- The Film (General Release Version - 02:43:15)
- Promotional Spots
- "AFI's 100 Years…100 Laughs" excerpt (11:09)
DISC TWO - 7,50 Gb:
- The Film (Extended Version - 03:17:20)
- Audio Commentary with "It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" aficionados Mark Evanier, Michael Schlesinger, and Paul Scrabo
- "About The Extended Version" text
- Restoration Demonstration (05:19)
DISC THREE - 7,54 GGb:
- "Telescope" 1963 TV program: Part One: "A Winters Tale" (24:55) and Part Two: "A Junket Into Madness" (25:20)
- 1963 Press Interview (35:06)
- "Stanley Kramer's Reunion with the Great Comedy Artists of All Time" 1974 talk show excerpt (36:44)
- The Last 70mm Film Festival (37:36)
- "Sound and Vision" documentary (36:26)
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