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It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World - The Criterion Collection
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$36.99
STANLEY KRAMER followed his Oscar-winning Judgment at Nuremberg with this sobering investigation of American greed. Ah, who are we kidding? It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, about a group of strangers fighting tooth and nail over buried treasure, is the most grandly hare-brained movie ever made, a pileup of slapstick and borscht-belt-y one-liners performed by a nonpareil cast, including MILTON BERLE, SID CAESAR, ETHEL MERMAN, MICKEY ROONEY, SPENCER TRACY, JONATHAN WINTERS, and a boatload of other playingto-the-rafters comedy legends. For sheer scale of silliness, Kramer's wildly uncharacteristic film is unlike any other, an exhilarating epic of tomfoolery.
TWO BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:
- Restored 4K digital film transfer of the general release version of the film, with 5.1
- surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- New high-definition digital transfer of a 197-minute extended version of the film,
- reconstructed and restored by Robert A. Harris using visual and audio material from
- the longer original road-show version-including some scenes that have been returned
- to the film here for the first time
- New audio commentary featuring It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World aficionados Mark
- Evanier, Michael Schlesinger, and Paul Scrabo
- New documentary on the film's visual and sound effects, featuring rare behind-thescenes
- footage of the crew at work and interviews with visual-effects specialist Craig
- Barron and sound designer Ben Burtt
- Talk show from 1974 hosted by director Stanley Kramer and featuring Mad World
- actors Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, and Jonathan Winters
- Press interview from 1963 featuring Kramer and members of the film's cast
- Interviews recorded for the 2000 AFI program 100 Years . . . 100 Laughs, featuring
- comedians and actors discussing the influence of the film
- Two-part 1963 episode of the CBC television program Telescope that follows the film's
- press junket and premiere
- The Last 70mm Film Festival, a program from 2012 featuring cast and crew members
- from Mad World at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, hosted by Billy
- Crystal
- Selection of humourist and voice-over artist Stan Freberg's original TV and radio
- advertisements for the film, with a new introduction by Freberg
- Original and re-release trailers, and re-release radio spots
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Lou Lumenick and illustrations by legendary cartoonist
- Jack Davis
- CRITERION COLLECTION
- 205 mins approx.
- Stanley Kramer
- U
- Spencer Tracy
- Milton Berle
- Sid Caesar
- Buddy Hackett
- Ethel Merman
- Mickey Rooney
- 1963
- English
- 1
- 2
- CRITERION COLLECTION
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STANLEY KRAMER followed his Oscar-winning Judgment at Nuremberg with this sobering investigation of American greed. Ah, who are we kidding? It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, about a group of strangers fighting tooth and nail over buried treasure, is the most grandly hare-brained movie ever made, a pileup of slapstick and borscht-belt-y one-liners performed by a nonpareil cast, including MILTON BERLE, SID CAESAR, ETHEL MERMAN, MICKEY ROONEY, SPENCER TRACY, JONATHAN WINTERS, and a boatload of other playingto-the-rafters comedy legends. For sheer scale of silliness, Kramer's wildly uncharacteristic film is unlike any other, an exhilarating epic of tomfoolery.
TWO BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:
- Restored 4K digital film transfer of the general release version of the film, with 5.1
- surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- New high-definition digital transfer of a 197-minute extended version of the film,
- reconstructed and restored by Robert A. Harris using visual and audio material from
- the longer original road-show version-including some scenes that have been returned
- to the film here for the first time
- New audio commentary featuring It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World aficionados Mark
- Evanier, Michael Schlesinger, and Paul Scrabo
- New documentary on the film's visual and sound effects, featuring rare behind-thescenes
- footage of the crew at work and interviews with visual-effects specialist Craig
- Barron and sound designer Ben Burtt
- Talk show from 1974 hosted by director Stanley Kramer and featuring Mad World
- actors Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, and Jonathan Winters
- Press interview from 1963 featuring Kramer and members of the film's cast
- Interviews recorded for the 2000 AFI program 100 Years . . . 100 Laughs, featuring
- comedians and actors discussing the influence of the film
- Two-part 1963 episode of the CBC television program Telescope that follows the film's
- press junket and premiere
- The Last 70mm Film Festival, a program from 2012 featuring cast and crew members
- from Mad World at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, hosted by Billy
- Crystal
- Selection of humourist and voice-over artist Stan Freberg's original TV and radio
- advertisements for the film, with a new introduction by Freberg
- Original and re-release trailers, and re-release radio spots
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Lou Lumenick and illustrations by legendary cartoonist
- Jack Davis
- CRITERION COLLECTION
- 205 mins approx.
- Stanley Kramer
- U
- Spencer Tracy
- Milton Berle
- Sid Caesar
- Buddy Hackett
- Ethel Merman
- Mickey Rooney
- 1963
- English
- 1
- 2
- CRITERION COLLECTION
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