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

1963

Stanley Kramer

Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Jonathan Winters ...

6.8

5,826

Adventure. Comedy After a long prison sentence Smiler Grogan is heading at high speed to a California park where he hid $350,000 from a job 15 years previously. He accidentally careers over a cliff in view of four cars whose occupants go down to help. The dying Grogan gives details of where the money is buried and when the witnesses fail to agree on sharing the cash, a crazy chase develops across the state.

	Media	Author	Review
		Variety	"Being a picture of extravagant proportions, even its few flaws are king-sized, but the plusses outweigh by far the minuses."
		Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"A story that has eruptive energy and speed (...) [The actors] perform it with the fervor of demented geniuses."
		Peter Sobczynski rogerebert.com	"It continues to be what it pretty much has always been—an admittedly uneven film that combines moments of absolute comedic genius with others that veer between the aimless and the off-putting."
		Charles Cassady Jr. Common Sense Media	"The result is undoubtedly entertaining, sometimes screamingly funny (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		TV Guide	"This comic extravaganza starts off funny, but exhausts rather than delights (...) At 154 minutes of running time, it's way too long for what it is."
		Ian Nathan Empire	"The definitive wacky screwball comedy that spawned a genre (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Mike D'Angelo AV Club	"How much of this works will largely depend on how much a viewer enjoys comedy that is sprawling and frenetic."

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