![]() Culpeper gives the pre-arranged signal and goes in alone. ![]() After many mishaps, everyone reaches the Park and begins searching for the "big W". He instructs all the law enforcement following the motorists to back off on his signal – because none of the motorists know him – and heads for the park. Meanwhile, Culpepper has a furious argument with his wife and daughter, then is told his pension will be a pittance, and has a mental breakdown. Trying to get back to the highway, Meyer fails at crossing a deep river and his car is swept away, forcing him to steal another motorist's car. Meyer, meanwhile, picks up a stranded motorist and helps him get back home. Marcus calls her dimwitted son Sylvester, who lives near the park however, she claims Russell "assaulted" her, causing Sylvester to panic and drive towards her instead of getting the money for her. Pike destroys the station, steals a tow truck, and picks up Mrs. Pike stops motorist Otto Meyer for a ride however, after Pike tells Meyer about the money, Meyer abandons him and convinces two service station employees to detain Pike. Marcus and Emmeline leave to hitch their own ride. Algernon Hawthorne to drive them to Santa Rosita. The Finches' car collides with Pike's furniture van, and Russell persuades British Army Lieutenant Colonel J. After bringing the plane to the ground, they also hire a cab to drive them to the park. Bell and Benjamin charter a modern plane, but, when their alcoholic pilot knocks himself out, they have to land the plane themselves, causing chaos among the air traffic controllers as the plane flies wildly out of control. After several failed attempts to break out, they blow out the wall of the basement with dynamite and hire a cab to get to the park. When they stop in a hardware store for supplies, they are inadvertently locked in the store's basement. The Crumps charter a rickety biplane to Santa Rosita. Unbeknownst to all, Captain Culpeper, chief of detectives of the Santa Rosita Police Department, who had been working the Grogan case for years and hoped to solve it and retire, has everyone tracked.Īll the motorists experience setbacks on the way to the park. After the group fails to come up with a satisfactory way to split the money, they decide to race to find it. Just before he dies, Grogan tells them about $350,000 ($3.2 million, today) buried in Santa Rosita State Park under “a big W”. Russell Finch, a seaweed-business owner, traveling with his wife Emmeline and his loud, obnoxious mother-in-law Mrs. Five motorists stop to help him: Melville Crump, a dentist on a second honeymoon with his wife Monica Lennie Pike, a furniture mover Ding Bell and Benjy Benjamin, two friends on their way to Las Vegas and J. "Smiler" Grogan, a just-released convict jailed for robbery 15 years earlier, escapes police surveillance but crashes his car on California State Route 74. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World featured at number 40 in the American Film Institute's list 100 Years.100 Laughs. It was released in a five-disc "Dual Format" Blu-ray/ DVD Combo Pack on January 21, 2014. Harris to reconstruct and restore It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World to be as close as possible to the original 202-minute version envisioned by Kramer. On October 15, 2013, it was announced that the Criterion Collection had collaborated with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, United Artists, and film restoration expert Robert A. His first attempt at directing a comedy film paid off immensely as It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World became a critical and commercial success in 1963 and was nominated for six Academy Awards, winning for Best Sound Editing, and two Golden Globe Awards.Īgainst Kramer's wishes, the film suffered severe cuts by its distributor United Artists in order to give the film a shorter running time for its general release. He is best known for producing and directing, in his own words, "heavy drama" about social problems, such as The Defiant Ones, Inherit the Wind, Judgment at Nuremberg, and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. The film marked the first time Kramer directed a comedy, though he had produced the comedy So This Is New York in 1948. The principal cast features Edie Adams, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Dorothy Provine, Mickey Rooney, Dick Shawn, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas, and Jonathan Winters. The film, starring Spencer Tracy with an all-star cast of comedians, is about the madcap pursuit of $350,000 in stolen cash by a diverse and colorful group of strangers. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a 1963 American comedy film produced and directed by Stanley Kramer with a story and screenplay by William Rose and Tania Rose. Left to right: Edie Adams, Sid Caesar, Jonathan Winters, Ethel Merman, Milton Berle, Mickey Rooney and Buddy Hackett
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