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It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963, United States)
A fast-moving car flies off a road in California and crashes on the rocky roadside. Eight people stop to check on the driver, he is barely alive. It turns out he is Smiler Grogan, a recently released convict, who tells them about a large amount of money he has hidden in Santa Rosita State Park "under a large W". Soon after the police, who were trying to catch up with Grogan, shows up on the scene, but the passengers of the cars decide not to share the information about the hidden treasure with them. Once they are out of the police sight, they stop to decide what to do next - they think they ought to drive to the place, dig up the money and split them equally among each other. This plan soon collapses as they cannot decide on a fair way to split the money and they end up beginning a race - who will get first to Santa Rosita State Park will get all of the money. Once the greed kicks up, a race without any rules is in a full swing.
Classic comedy, which mixes a fast-paced plot with dirty tricks the competitors try to use to get an advantage and win the race. That is the good side of the movie, but there is also the other side, a problem that plenty of Hollywood movies had back in 1960s - the producers were trying to cover the fact that screenplay is perhaps not that great by introduction of well-known actors to appear in the production and It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a flaring example of that. We have here Jack Benny, Jerry Lewis, Jimmy Durante, Don Knotts, Carl Reiner and Buster Keaton in tiny parts or cameos.
Even the main cast with Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Ceasar would be impressive enough, but Stanley Kramer wanted to make a movie so spectacular that it would outshine any other comedy. Even the title with four "mad" words in it seemed excessive and years later Kramer regretted that he did not added another one to the title. To be fair, it is a fast-paced comedy, but stretched to over 2 hours (or over 3 hours in the director’s cut) the whole thing becomes excessive and cutting down some parts of the physical comedy or unnecessary cameos, would only improve the whole thing.
Nevertheless, it is a classic comedy, although might have been better if the director would focus more on the main plot and not wondering into silent-cinema era over-exposure of physical comedy or trying to convince the audience how spectacular the movie is.
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It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World quotes
Lennie Pike: [seeing Otto Meyer driving by] That’s him! That’s him! I tell you, when I catch you, I’ll kill you! I tell you, I’ll kill you, you dirty robber!
Hawthorne: Someone you know?
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