It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, mad World

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Call Number: Blu-ray Comedy It's
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 1st Floor 1-week checkout	Blu-ray Comedy It's	1-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Adult A/V 1-week checkout	Blu-ray Comedy It's	1-week checkout	Due 04-23-2024

Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1963.
Special features: Restored 4K digital film transfer of the general release version; new high-definition digital transfer of the 197 minute extended version; new audio commentaries; new documentary on the films visual and sound effects; interviews; excerpts from a 1974 talk show hosted by director Stanely Kramer and others; excepts about the influence of the film; two-part 1963 episode of the TV program Telescopel; the last 70mm film festival; selection of humorist and voice-over artist Stan Freberg's original TV and radio ads for the film; trailers and radio spots; booklet.
Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney.
A group of strangers fighting tooth and nail over buried treasure, is the most grandly harebrained movie ever made, a pileup of slapstick and borscht-belt-y one-liners performed by a nonpareil cast.
Blu-ray, widescreen (2.76:1, 16:9) presentation; Dolby digital 5.1; requires Blu-ray player.

REVIEWS & SUMMARIES

Library Journal Review

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Star-studded fun. submitted by lisa on July 29, 2019, 3:45pm It's great that it's a Criterion film. Ha!

It's a Fun, Fun, Fun, Fun Film submitted by shira.pilarski on July 18, 2020, 10:31pm Basically every comedic actor of the 60s is in this movie (not to mention some actors who had been in the business for decades, like Ethel Merman and Buster Keaton). It's like a who's who of Mel Brooks's friends. Dick Shawn plays a very similar role to the one he plays in The Producers, which is also hilarious. Lots of slapstick antics and cameos. Two issues with this movie, though:
1. It's significantly longer than it needs to be.
2. The ending is kind of a bummer.