It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
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Directed by | Stanley Kramer |
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Produced by | Stanley Kramer |
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Cinematography | Ernest Gold |
Production company | Casey Productions |
Distributed by | United Artists |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $9.4 million[1] |
Box office | $60 million[2] |
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a 1963 American
The film marked the first time Kramer directed a comedy, though he had produced the comedy So This Is New York in 1948. 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. 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 and was nominated for six Academy Awards, winning for Best Sound Editing, and two Golden Globe Awards.
Against Kramer's wishes, the film was cut by its distributor United Artists to reduce the film's running time to 163 minutes for its general release. 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. 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. It was released in a five-disc "Dual Format" Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack on January 21, 2014.[4][5]
The film featured at number 40 in the American Film Institute's list 100 Years...100 Laughs.
Plot
Smiler Grogan, a recently released convict, crashes his car on California State Route 74. With his dying breath, Grogan tells a group of motorists who stop to help him about $350,000 buried in Santa Rosita State Park under "a big W." Failing to negotiate a satisfactory way to split the money, the four cars begin a mad dash to the park, having several mishaps along the way:
- Melville Crump, a dentist on a second honeymoon with his wife Monica, charters a rickety biplane to Santa Rosita. Despite arriving in Santa Rosita first, they get locked in a hardware store's basement. After several attempts to break out, they blow out the wall of the basement with dynamite, and hire a cab to get to the park.
- Ding Bell and Benjy Benjamin, two friends on their way to Las Vegas, charter a small airplane. When their alcoholic pilot knocks himself out, they struggle to land the plane themselves; once on the ground, they also hire a cab to get to the park.
- J. Russell Finch, a businessman traveling with his wife Emmeline and her mother Mrs. Marcus, crashes into the furniture truck of Lennie Pike, another witness of Grogan’s crash. Finch persuades British Army Lieutenant Colonel J. Algernon Hawthorne to drive them to Santa Rosita. After a nasty argument, Mrs. Marcus and Emmeline exit the car to hitch their own ride. Hawthorne crashes the car while driving through a tunnel, and he and Finch come to blows.
- Pike stops motorist Otto Meyer for a ride and tells him about the money; the greedy Meyer decides to search for the treasure himself, and abandons Pike, convincing two service station attendants to detain him. Pike destroys the station, steals a tow truck, and picks up Mrs. Marcus and Emmeline. Mrs. Marcus calls her son Sylvester, who lives close to Santa Rosita, but he misunderstands and drives to meet her. Eventually, the group reunites with Russell and Hawthorne, and continues to head to the park.
- Meyer stops to help a stranded miner get back to his very rural cabin. Trying to get back to the highway, Meyer fails at crossing a deep river and his car is swept away, leading him to steal another motorist's car.
Meanwhile, Santa Rosita Police Captain T. G. Culpeper, hoping to tie up the Grogan case before his impending retirement, secretly has the motorists shadowed throughout their various adventures. After a furious argument with his wife and daughter, Culpeper learns that his pension will be a pittance and has a mental breakdown.
The entire group, now consisting of thirteen people, arrives at Santa Rosita at nearly the same time, and searches frantically for the "big W", which turns out to be a gathering of four
The motorists realize that Culpeper is not returning to the police station with them, but is stealing the money for himself. The men chase him into an abandoned building and onto a rickety
In the prison hospital, the men bemoan the loss of the money and blame their injuries on Culpeper, who responds that due to his lost pension (which his boss had successfully negotiated back, thus making his illegal actions unnecessary), the ruined relationship with his family, and the likelihood that the judge will probably give him the harshest sentence, he may never laugh again. Mrs. Marcus, flanked by Emmeline and Monica, enters and begins berating the men, only for her to
Cast
Principal cast
- Spencer Tracy as Captain T. G. Culpeper
- Milton Berle as J. Russell Finch
- Sid Caesar as Melville Crump
- Buddy Hackett as "Benjy" Benjamin
- Ethel Merman as Mrs. Marcus
- Mickey Rooney as Ding Bell
- Dick Shawn as Sylvester Marcus
- Phil Silvers as Otto Meyer
- Terry-Thomas as Lt. Col. J. Algernon Hawthorne
- Jonathan Winters as Lennie Pike
- Edie Adams as Monica Crump
- Dorothy Provine as Emeline Marcus-Finch
Supporting cast
- Eddie "Rochester" Anderson as a cab driver
- Jim Backus as airplane owner Tyler Fitzgerald
- Ben Blue as the vintage biplane pilot
- Joe E. Brown as the union official giving a speech at a construction site
- Alan Carney as a sergeant with the Santa Rosita Police Department
- Chick Chandler as a policeman outside Ray & Irwin's Garage[6]
- Barrie Chase as Sylvester Marcus' dancing, bikini-clad paramour
- Lloyd Corrigan as the mayor of Santa Rosita
- William Demarest as Aloysius, Chief of the Santa Rosita Police Department
- Andy Devine as the sheriff of Crockett County, California
- Selma Diamond as Ginger Culpeper (voice)[6]
- Peter Falk as a cab driver
- Norman Fell as primary detective at the "Smiler" Grogan accident site
- Paul Ford as Col. Wilberforce
- Stan Freberg as a deputy sheriff of Crockett County
- Louise Glenn as Billie Sue Culpeper (voice)[6]
- Leo Gorcey as the cab driver bringing Melville and Monica to the hardware store
- Sterling Holloway as the Santa Rosita Fire Department fireman
- Edward Everett Horton as Mr. Dinkler, owner of the hardware store
- Marvin Kaplan as service station co-owner Irwin
- Buster Keaton as Jimmy the Crook
- Don Knotts as the nervous motorist
- Charles Lane as the airport manager
- Mike Mazurki as the miner bringing medicine to his wife
- Charles McGraw as Lt. Mathews of the Santa Rosita Police Department
- Cliff Norton as reporter (scene deleted)[7]
- ZaSu Pitts as Gertie, the Santa Rosita Police Department Central Division's switchboard operator
- Carl Reiner as the Rancho Conejo airport tower controller
- Madlyn Rhue as secretary Schwartz of the Santa Rosita Police Department
- Roy Roberts as policeman outside Irwin & Ray's Garage
- Arnold Stang as service station co-owner Ray
- Nick Stewart as the migrant truck driver forced off the road
- The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Joe DeRita) as Rancho Conejo Airport firemen
- Sammee Tong as a laundryman
- Jesse White as a Rancho Conejo air traffic controller
- Jimmy Durante as Smiler Grogan
Cameo/uncredited appearances
- Jack Benny as man driving car in desert[6][8]
- Paul Birch as a patrolman[6]
- John Clarke as a Santa Rosita Police Department helicopter pilot[9]
- Stanley Clements as a reporter[6]
- Phil Arnold as a Gas Station Attendant Scene Deleted [6]
- Minta Durfee as a woman in the crowd[10]
- Roy Engel as a patrolman[6]
- James Flavin as a crossroads patrolman (scene deleted from general release version)
- Nicholas Georgiade as detective at crash site[6]
- Stacy Harris as police radio voice unit F-7 (voice only), and as a detective outside of Mr. Dinkler's hardware store [citation needed]
- Don C. Harvey as helicopter observer[6]
- Allen Jenkins as a police officer[6]
- Robert Karnes as Sammy, a Crockett County deputy following the ambulance
- Tom Kennedy as traffic cop[6]
- Harry Lauter as radio operator[6]
- Ben Lessy as George the steward[6]
- Bobo Lewis as pilot's wife[6]
- Jerry Lewis as man driving over hat[6][8]
- Tyler McVey as a police radio voice (voice only)
- Barbara Pepper as waitress (scene deleted)[6]
- Eddie Rosson as miner's young son[5]
- Eddie Ryder as tower radioman[6]
- Jean Sewell as woman in migrant truck[5]
- Doodles Weaver as hardware store employee[6]
- Lennie Weinrib as a police radio voice, and as a fireman (voice only)[11]
Cast notes
According to Robert Davidson,
Actress Eve Bruce filmed a scene as a showgirl who asks Benjy Benjamin and Ding Bell to help her apply suntan lotion. The scene was cut, and she is uncredited. Cliff Norton is listed in the opening credits but is not found in the film; Norton had a role as a detective who appears at the Rancho Conejo airport. King Donovan, playing an airport official, appeared in the Rancho Conejo scenes but was cut from the film. Don Knotts originally shot a second scene in which he tries to use a telephone in a diner. Also featured in the scene was Barbara Pepper.[7]
The first of the credited cast to die was ZaSu Pitts, who died on June 7, 1963, five months to the day before the film's release. With the death of Carl Reiner on June 29, 2020,[13] and Nicholas Georgiade on December 19, 2021,[14] Barrie Chase is the film's last surviving cast member, credited or otherwise. Mickey Rooney was the last living member of the main cast at the time of his death on April 6, 2014.[15]
Production
Background
In the early 1960s, screenwriter William Rose, then living in the United Kingdom, conceived the idea for a film (provisionally titled So Many Thieves, and later Something a Little Less Serious) about a comedic chase through Scotland. He sent an outline to Kramer, who agreed to produce and direct the film. The setting was shifted to America, and the working title changed to Where, but in America? then One Damn Thing After Another and then It's a Mad World, with Rose and Kramer adding additional "Mads" to the title as time progressed.[16] Kramer considered adding a fifth "mad" to the title before deciding it was redundant but noted in interviews that he later regretted it.
Although well known for serious films such as
Filming
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The airport terminal scenes were filmed at the now-defunct Rancho Conejo Airport in Newbury Park, California, though the control tower shown was constructed only for filming. Other airplane sequences were filmed at the Sonoma County Airport north of Santa Rosa, California; at the Palm Springs International Airport; and in the skies above Thousand Oaks, California; Camarillo, California; and Orange County, California. In the Orange County scene, stuntman Frank Tallman flew a Beech model C-18S through a highway billboard advertising Coca-Cola. A communications mix-up resulted in the use of linen graphic sheets on the sign rather than paper, as planned. Linen, much tougher than paper, damaged the plane on impact.[citation needed] Tallman managed to fly it back to the airstrip, discovering that the leading edges of the wings had been smashed all the way back to the wing spars. Tallman considered that incident the closest he ever came to dying on film. (Both Tallman and Paul Mantz, Tallman's business partner and fellow flier on Mad World, eventually died in separate air crashes over a decade apart.)[20][21]
In another scene, Tallman flew the plane through an airplane hangar at the Sonoma County Airport in Santa Rosa.[22] Some scenes were filmed in San Diego.[23]
The fire escape and ladder miniature used in the final chase sequence is on display at the Hollywood Museum in Hollywood. Also, the Santa Rosita Fire Department's ladder truck was a 1960s Seagrave Fire Apparatus open-cab Mid-Mount Aerial Ladder.[24]
Production began on April 26, 1962, and expected to end by December 7, 1962, but took longer,[25] apparently conflicting with the notion that Tracy's trip down the zip line into the pet store on December 6, 1962, was the last scene filmed.[26] Veteran stuntman Carey Loftin was featured in the documentary, explaining some of the complexity as well as simplicity of stunts, such as the day he "kicked the bucket" as a stand-in for Durante.
Widescreen process
The film was promoted as the first film made in "one-projector"
Animated credit sequence
Kramer's comedy was accentuated by many things, including the opening animated credits designed by Saul Bass. The film begins with mention of Spencer Tracy, then the "in alphabetical order" mention of nine of the main cast (Berle, Caesar, Hackett, Merman, Rooney, Shawn, Silvers, Terry-Thomas, Winters), followed by hands switching these nine names two to three times over. Animation continues with paper dolls and a wind-up toy world spinning with several men hanging on to it and finishing with a man opening a door to the globe and getting trampled by a mad crowd. One of the animators who helped with the sequence was future Peanuts animator Bill Melendez.[citation needed]
Release and reception
Box office
The film opened at the newly built
Critical response
Bosley Crowther of The New York Times wrote that the film "is everything, down to redundant, that its extravagant title suggests. It's a wonderfully crazy and colorful collection of 'chase' comedy, so crowded with plot and people that it almost splits the seams of its huge cinerama packing and its 3-hour-and-12-minute length."[29] Variety stated "There are a number of truly spectacular action sequences, and the stunts that have been performed seem incredible. The automobile capers are some of the most thrilling and daring on record, Mack Sennett notwithstanding." However, the review continued, "Certain pratfalls and sequences are unnecessarily overdone to the point where they begin to grow tedious ... but the plusses outweigh by far the minuses."[3]
Philip K. Scheuer of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the film "really bugged me ... the first few pratfalls have, perhaps their comic shock values. Thereafter the chase—and the homicidal mania—simply go on and on – countless cars are wrecked, a plane or two, an entire service station, the basement of a hardware store, fire escapes, a fire-engine tower. The only new idea, occurring well into the third hour, hinges on a surprise development in the character of a proud, plodding chief of detectives, played by Spencer Tracy—and even this proves disillusionment."[30]
Richard L. Coe of The Washington Post was mixed, writing "Yes, it is furious, fast and funny and it is also vast, vulgar and vexatious because Kramer has not given us one sympathetic character and because it is shown in Cinerama."[31] Paul Nelson wrote in Film Quarterly: "The film manages to stay on its feet for a little while and trundle self-importantly along, but it soon becomes painfully clear that its feet are flat and its wheels are square. Kramer lacks all the essentials of good comedy; he has few ideas, no cinematic or comic technique (the huge screen certainly didn't help him here: just one more technical burden), no sense of comic structure, and above all, no sense of pace."[32]
The film's great success inspired Kramer to direct and produce Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (also starring Tracy and also written by William Rose)[33] and The Secret of Santa Vittoria (also scored by Ernest Gold and co-written by Rose).[34] The movie was re-released in 1970 and earned an additional $2 million in rentals.[35]
The film holds a 69% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 39 reviews, with an average score of 6.9/10. The consensus states: "It's long, frantic, and stuffed to the gills with comic actors and set pieces—and that's exactly its charm."[36]
Home media
Existing footage is in the form of original
A restoration effort was made by Harris in an attempt to bring the film back as close as possible to the original roadshow release. The project to go ahead with the massive restoration project would gain approval from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (parent company of UA), although it did require a necessary budget for it to proceed.[38]
Released on January 21, 2014, originally as a two
Awards and honors
Award | Category | Nominee(s) | Result |
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Academy Awards[39] | Best Cinematography – Color | Ernest Laszlo | Nominated |
Best Film Editing | Frederic Knudtson, Robert C. Jones and Gene Fowler Jr. | Nominated | |
Best Music Score – Substantially Original | Ernest Gold
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Nominated | |
Best Song | "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" Music by Ernest Gold; Lyrics by Mack David |
Nominated | |
Best Sound | Gordon E. Sawyer | Nominated | |
Best Sound Effects
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Walter Elliott | Won | |
American Cinema Editors Awards | Best Edited Feature Film | Frederic Knudtson, Robert C. Jones and Gene Fowler Jr. | Nominated |
Edgar Allan Poe Awards
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Best Motion Picture Screenplay | Tania Rose
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Nominated |
Golden Globe Awards[40] | Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Nominated | |
Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Jonathan Winters | Nominated | |
Laurel Awards | Top Roadshow | Won | |
Top Song | "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" Music by Ernest Gold; Lyrics by Mack David |
Won | |
New York Film Critics Circle Awards[41] | Best Film | Nominated |
The film is recognized by the American Film Institute in the following lists:
- 2000: AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs – #40[42]
Soundtrack
- "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" (1963) – Music by Ernest Gold – Lyrics by Mack David
- "You Satisfy My Soul" (1963) – Music by Ernest Gold – Lyrics by Mack David – Played by The Four Mads – Sung by The Shirelles
- "Thirty-One Flavors" (1963) – Music by Ernest Gold – Lyrics by Mack David – Played by The Four Mads – Sung by The Shirelles
Influence
Films having a comedic search for money with an ensemble cast modeled after It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World include
Abandoned sequel
According to Paul Scrabo, Kramer began thinking about his success with Mad World during the 1970s, and considered bringing back many former cast members for a proposed film titled The Sheiks of Araby. William Rose was set to write the screenplay. Years later, Kramer announced a possible Mad World sequel, which was to be titled It's a Funny, Funny World, but this has never been made.[51]
See also
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External links
- It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World at the American Film Institute Catalog
- It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World at IMDb
- It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World at the TCM Movie Database
- It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World at AllMovie
- It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World at Rotten Tomatoes
- "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: Nothing Succeeds Like Excess," an essay by Criterion Collection
- Article documenting Robert Harris' attempt to restore It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World at the Wayback Machine (archived April 3, 2002)
- Writer Mark Evanier discusses his favorite movie
- Still a 'Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World'?