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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
This film explores the story of a man named 'Smiler' Grogan, a former convict wanted by the police. The man has been involved in several dangerous operations and has been convicted by the police of a 15-year-old tuna plantation, now a fugitive. On the state highway 74 near Palm Springs, southern California, five motorists stopped to help the criminal as things turned into a completely different turn.
1 October 1906, Brussels, Belgium
24 March 1910, Portland, Maine, USA
July 12, 1909 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
20 January 1935, Deadwood, South Dakota, USA
15 July 1885, New York City, New York, USA
14 April 1931, South Bend, Indiana, USA
16 February 1926, Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
28 November 1901, Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico
12 September 1901, Montréal, Québec, Canada
6 March 1916, Los Angeles, California, USA
14 February 1912, Bay City, Michigan, USA
25 December 1907, Tarnopol, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Ternopil, Ukraine]
November 07, 2007
This comic extravaganza starts off funny, but exhausts rather than delights.
February 09, 2014
lives up to its intentions as an epic madcap farce, and it offers enough comic variation through the multiple characters and situations that it never feels overlong or monotonous
May 09, 2005
So many excellent actors and stunt men do so much in this film that it is beyond my space allowance to begin to credit them.
November 07, 2007
Spencer Tracy, Sid Caesar, Mickey Rooney and host of good-old-fashioned-comedy chums cram in the action, but miss the laughs in this frantic bank caper comedy.
January 22, 2012
[VIDEO ESSAY] A classic example of the Screwball Comedy genre.
January 23, 2014
There's a documentary-like pleasure in watching so many legends of comedy share the screen... along with the disappointment of watching so many very funny people fail to be funny at all.
November 07, 2007
The comic competition is so keen that it is impossible to single out any one participant as outstanding.
December 12, 2010
What can you say about a comedy where the Three Stooges are the most sedate people on screen?
February 09, 2006
Kramer's 'comedy to end all comedy' stretches its material to snapping point but offers happy hours of star-spotting.
April 18, 2014
For every inspired set-piece, there are one or two that don't work, making this a frequently frustrating watch.
November 07, 2007
Stanley Kramer strikes out again with this elephantine 1963 attempt at uproarious comedy.
February 07, 2014
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World remains a technological and creative marvel for reasons beyond its sometimes fitful ability to make audiences laugh.