It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world [videorecording] / Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; Stanley Kramer presents ; a United Artists release ; story and screenplay by, William & Tania Rose ; produced and directed by, Stanley Kramer.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Edition:
DVD special edition ; widescreen.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
c2014
Description:
2 v. (3 videodiscs) (163, 197 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 in.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1963. General release version and new high-definition digital transfer of 197-minute extended version. Special features: promotional spots for 1963 original release & 1970 rerelease; AFI's 100 years... 100 laughs; about the extended version; audio commentary by Mark Evanier, Michael Schlesinger and Paul Scrabo; restoration demonstration; Telescope; press interview, 1963; Stanley Kramer's reunion with the great comedy artists of our time; the last 70 mm Film Festival; sound and vision. Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Dick Shawn, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas, Jonathan Winters.
Contents:
v. 1. (disc 1, 163 min.). General release version -- v. 2. (discs 2 & 3, 197 min.). extended, original road show version ; extras.
Summary:
When a goofy assortment of motorists unexpectedly learn the whereabouts of a stolen fortune, they speed off on a side-splitting, car-bashing race for the loot.
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