It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 1963 123movies

Watch: It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 1963 123movies, Full Movie Online – The story begins during a massive traffic jam caused by reckless driver Smiler Grogan, who, before kicking the bucket, cryptically tells the assembled drivers that he’s buried a fortune in stolen loot under the Big W. All of the motorists set out to find the fortune..
Plot: A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
Smart Tags: #car #mountain_road #limousine_driver #epic #vandalism #road #road_movie #riddle #shovel #digging_a_hole #man_driving_a_car #driving_a_car #motor_vehicle #social_satire #briton_in_usa #search #speculation #dying_words #california #rage #rampage

Find Alternative – It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 1963, Streaming Links:

123movies | FMmovies | Putlocker | GoMovies | SolarMovie | Soap2day

Ratings:

	7.5/10 Votes: 42,466
	71% | RottenTomatoes
	59/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 455 Popularity: 16.19 | TMDB

Reviews:

_**Epic screwball comedy-adventure with an all-star cast is overlong**_

Released in 1963, “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” is grand comedy-adventure about several motorists in the remote desert of Southern Cal learning of a buried cache of moolah in Santa Rosita State Park along the coast 200 miles south. A mad scramble to get to the money ensues.

The cast is superlative with too many old-time greats to cite. The opening is compelling, the first act culminating with an amusing sequence where Jonathan Winters’ character levels a gas station in the desert. The wild close with the fire truck ladder and corresponding hospital gag is also superb entertainment. The middle of the film, while fun, can get tedious because emptyheaded shenanigans can only hold your interest for so long. In other words, the movie’s just too long for such madcap misadventures.

Nevertheless, it’s a fun, energetic flick with top-rate locations and this is the only way to see so many classic celebrities on screen together.

The theatrical cut runs 2 hours, 41 minutes whereas the longest cut runs 3 hours, 30 minutes. There are several other cuts. It was shot entirely in various areas of Southern Cal.

GRADE: B-

It’s every man (and old bag) for himself.

It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World is one of those films that as a child I went to the cinema to watch and then proceeded to talk about it enthusiastically in the playground for weeks afterwards. So I find myself here in my middle age with mixed feelings after just revisiting this extravaganza for the first time in many a year.

It’s very much a film of three parts to me, and each part impacts differently on the entertainment scale. The first part of this multi cast piece is as madcap and as mirthful as you could honestly wish to see, but this sadly ill prepares you for a middle part that outstays its welcome to the point that you can’t believe they stretched it to an original cut of 3 hours! The final third of the film saves it from smug overkill because by now you have invested so much time into the film, you thank the gods for any sort of frivolity – and thankfully the film does lift you back up to the happy place that you had visited an hour previously.

The cast are fine, where some brilliant shows are mixed in with the merely acceptable ones, and I wouldn’t want to be so churlish as to dissect each actors respective show. However, as a Phil Silvers fan I’m rewarded plenty enough and as a Spencer Tracy acolyte I’m burning candles again in his honour. Yet it’s Ethel Merman as Mrs. Marcus that lives long and glorious in the memory here, and honestly I feel the film is worth a watch purely just for her. The set pieces are fine and the stunts are truly a feast for the eyes, but ultimately one comes away thinking this film should have been a masterpiece instead of the overkilled and overlong experience that it is. 6.5/10

A Comedy Classic that Still Holds Up…
A couple of years ago, I finally managed to get IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD on video. I saw it as a kid and remember enjoying it but watching it again for 40 years later, I still found myself LMAO. This is still the granddaddy of all comedy/adventures directed by Stanley Kramer, who up to this point had only directed serious dramas like THE DEFIANT ONES and JUDGMENT AT NUREMBURG. A dying man (Jimmy Durante) who was thrown from a car that careened over a cliff, tells a group of witnesses to the accident (Sid Ceasar, Mickey Rooney, Buddy Hackett, Milton Berle, Jonathan Winters) that there is $350,000.00 hidden under a big “W” in a nearby town, which sets off one of the wildest, craziest chase comedies made in the history of cinema. A rather tired and haggard looking Spencer Tracy heads the cast as the cop on the trail of these greedy money-mongers and just about every comedian or comic actor alive in 1963 appears in this film, either in a starring role or cameo and despite this impressive gathering of the best comedic talent in the business, towering over all of them in one of her few film performances, is Broadway legend Ethel Merman, who gives the performance of a lifetime as Berle’s shrew of a mother-in-law. Her performance alone makes IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD worth seeing. Check out this classic if you’ve never seen it.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 3 hr 30 min (210 min), 2 hr 34 min (154 min) (edited) (USA), 2 hr 54 min (174 min) (restored video) (USA), 3 hr 2 min (182 min) (Laserdisc) (extended re-edit), 3 hr 12 min (192 min) (premiere), 3 hr 25 min (205 min) (roadshow), 3 hr 17 min (197 min) (extended) (USA)
Budget 9400000
Revenue 60000000
Status Released
Rated G
Genre Action, Adventure, Comedy
Director Stanley Kramer
Writer William Rose, Tania Rose
Actors Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Ethel Merman
Country United States
Awards Won 1 Oscar. 3 wins & 10 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix 4-Track Stereo (Westrex Recording System) (35mm prints), 70 mm 6-Track (Westrex Recording System) (70 mm prints)
Aspect Ratio 2.76 : 1
Camera Panavision APO Panatar Lenses
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA
Film Length 4,250 m (1964) (35 mm version) (Finland), 4,375 m (35 mm version) (Sweden), 5,685 m (70 mm version) (Sweden)
Negative Format 65 mm (Eastman 50T 5250, 50T 5251)
Cinematographic Process Ultra Panavision 70 (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 16 mm, Eastman Color “rectified” prints, Super 8mm (Digest in two parts; flat and anamorphic versions available), Technicolor Dye Transfer prints (35mm), 35 mm, 70 mm (Super-Cinerama)