It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

G,

1963,

2h 55m,

Comedy/

Adventure

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71%

38 Reviews

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83%

10,000+ Ratings

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83%

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The story begins during a massive traffic jam, caused by reckless driver Smiler Grogan, who, before kicking the bucket, cryptically tells the assembled drivers that he's buried a fortune in stolen loot under the Big W. All the motorists set out to find the fortune.

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Critics Consensus

It's long, frantic, and stuffed to the gills with comic actors and set pieces -- and that's exactly its charm.

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Don Druker

Chicago Reader

Nov 7, 2007

Stanley Kramer strikes out again with this elephantine 1963 attempt at uproarious comedy.

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Variety Staff

Variety

Nov 7, 2007

The comic competition is so keen that it is impossible to single out any one participant as outstanding.

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Time Out

Feb 9, 2006

Kramer's 'comedy to end all comedy' stretches its material to snapping point but offers happy hours of star-spotting.

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Rachel Wagner

Hallmarkies Podcast

Mar 23, 2025

So many funny scenes. Ethel Merman steals the movie

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Penelope Gilliatt

Observer (UK)

Mar 6, 2024

This is a grim new variant of the old knockabout form, a comedy that deliberately brutalises every convention that makes people laugh. What it be comes, not surprisingly, is a comedy hat makes people feel battered and bleak.

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Judith Crist

New York Herald Tribune

Aug 8, 2022

It's a comic's field day. We haven't seen such a salute to the gift of lunacy for decades.

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Draco W

Apr 5, 2019

I have never laughed so hard when I saw this movie as a kid and I still enjoy watching this widescreen classic. Lots of great slapsick, car chases, numerous cameos by famous comedians, and just a good time at the movies.

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Theodore P

Feb 18, 2019

Billed as stuffed to the gills and frantic, all we get are long scenes, desperate actors, and an antiquated car chase. There's nothing funny here, especially if it's something they're trying to make funny. Epic it's not. Everyone embarrasses themselves equally and there's little charm to the simple plot.

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Han R

Feb 1, 2019

This is easily one of the biggest movies in the history of film. If not for the story, then it's big for the cast. There's so many names in this cast, old and new, it's hard to say who the real star of the movie is. And that is what helps to make it work. If this wasn't an ensemble film, it wouldn't have been half as successful. The way everyone bounces off one another, either as a group or as one of the group bounces off another person that they bring into this crazy chase. As one watches, the movie juggles so much, you can't help but watch it all the way through just to see how it ends. As it begins with someone kicking the bucket (both figuratively and literally), it ends with the oldest gag in the book, but it happens to someone who's been asking for it throughout the whole adventure, you can't help but laugh and laugh along with the whole ensemble. All I can say is that this movie is hilarious, may it live on forever and may movie lovers enjoy it forever! While this movie could also be remade today (and I'm sure it has been done already), it might not work as well as it did when it was first made. The human elements can still work (greed, love of money being the root of all evil, etc.) but technology has advanced so much, traveling has become easier to do so and a big part of the humor was with the traveling not being so easy, with two characters dealing with a drunk pi

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Feb 1, 2019

The best, GREATEST comedy movie ever made !With the best movie song ever sung: the title song! And the best movie score ever composed!

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Luke S

Dec 4, 2018

Absolutely amazing,still very funny,great characters.

Nov 30, 2018

I want like this movie a lot

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Stanley Kramer

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Spencer Tracy

Capt. T.G. Culpeper

Edie Adams

Monica Crump

Milton Berle

J. Russell Finch

Jimmy Durante

Smiler Grogan

Jonathan Winters

Lennie Pike

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Synopsis

The story begins during a massive traffic jam, caused by reckless driver Smiler Grogan, who, before kicking the bucket, cryptically tells the assembled drivers that he's buried a fortune in stolen loot under the Big W. All the motorists set out to find the fortune.

Director: Stanley Kramer
Producer: Stanley Kramer
Screenwriter: Tania Rose, William Rose
Distributor: United Artists
Production Co: United Artists, Casey Productions
Rating: G
Genre: Comedy, Adventure
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 7, 1963, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 19, 2016
Runtime: 2h 55m
Aspect Ratio: Cinerama (2.59:1), Scope (2.35:1)

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