It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world:
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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rose, William 1914-1987 (Author, Screenwriter), Rose, Tania 1920-2015 (Author, Screenwriter), Gold, Ernest 1921-1999 (Composer)
Other Authors: Laszlo, Ernest 1898-1984 (Cinematographer), Thomas, Bill 1921-2000 (Costume designer), Tracy, Spencer 1900-1967 (Actor), Berle, Milton 1908-2002 (Actor), Caesar, Sid 1922-2014 (Actor), Hackett, Buddy 1924-2003 (Actor)
Format: Video Software
Language:English
Published: [New York] The Criterion Collection [2017]
Edition:two-Blu-ray special edition
Series:The Criterion collection 692
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Abstract:"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 harebrained 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 playing-to-the-rafters comedy legends. For sheer scale of silliness, Kramer’s wildly uncharacteristic film is unlike any other, an exhilarating epic of tomfoolery." [criterion.com]
Item Description:Original: USA 1963
two-Blu-ray special edition features: restored 4K digital 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, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack ; 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 interviews with visual-effects specialist Craig Barron and sound designer Ben Burtt ; excerpt from a 1974 talk show hosted by director Stanley Kramer and featuring "Mad World" actors Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, and Jonathan Winters ; press interview from 1963 featuring Kramer and cast members ; excerpts about the influence of the film from the 2000 AFI program "100 Years . . . 100 Laughs" ; two-part 1963 episode of the TV program "Telescope" that follows the film’s press junket and premiere ; "The Last 70 mm Film Festival", a 2012 program featuring Mad World cast and crew, hosted by actor Billy Crystal ; selection of humorist and voice-over artist Stan Freberg’s original TV and radio ads for the film, with a 2013 introduction by Freberg ; trailers and radio spots ; plus: an essay by film critic Lou Lumenick and illustrations by legendary cartoonist Jack Davis
Physical Description:2 Blu-ray Discs (163 min) farbig 12 cm 1 Beiheft
Audience:12