It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963, G, 197 min.
Directed by Stanley Kramer, Starring Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas, Spencer Tracy, Jonathan Winters, Edie Adams, Jimmy Durante, Dick Shawn, Don Knotts, Peter Falk, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, William Demarest, the Three Stooges.

Featuring a powerhouse array of the top comic actors of the time, Mad World packs in a lot of laughs in its three-hour-plus running time. The story is one big chase plot with greedy participants racing one another to find a cache of stolen money under a mysterious “big W.”

This article appears in November 14 • 2003.

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