It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
- Premiere: 193 minutes
- U.S. version: 182 minutes
- German version: 154 minutes
- Spencer Tracy: Captain T. G. Culpepper
- Milton Berle: J. Russell Finch
- Sid Caesar: Dr. Melville Crump
- Buddy Hackett: Benjy Benjamin
- Ethel Merman: Mrs. Marcus
- Mickey Rooney: Ding ' Dingy ' Bell
- Dick Shawn: Sylvester Marcus
- Phil Silvers: Otto Meyer
- Terry -Thomas: J. Algernon Hawthorne
- Jonathan Winters: truck driver Lennie Pike
- Edie Adams: Monica Crump
- Dorothy Provine: Emeline Marcus - Finch
- Eddie Anderson: second taxi driver
- Jim Backus: Tyler Fitzgerald
- Ben Blue: Pilot of the biplane
- Joe E. Brown: Official of the Union
- Alan Carney: Police Sergeant
- Chick Chandler: Detective ago Chinese Laundry
- Barrie Chase: Sylvester's girlfriend
- Lloyd Corrigan: Major
- William Demarest: Police Chief Aloysius
- Andy Devine: Sheriff of County Crocked
- Selma Diamond: Ginger Culpepper ( voice )
- Jimmy Durante: Smiler Grogan
- Peter Falk: third taxi driver
- Norman Fell: Detective at the accident site
- Paul Ford: Colonel Wilberforce
- Stan Freberg: Deputy Sheriff
- Louise Glenn: Billie Sue Culpepper ( voice )
- Leo Gorcey: first taxi driver
- Sterling Holloway: fire chief
- Edward Everett Horton: Mr. Dinckler
- Marvin Kaplan: Irwin
- Buster Keaton: Jimmy the Rogue
- Don Knotts: nervous drivers
- Charles Lane: Manager of the airport Rancho
- Jerry Lewis: car driver who drives over hat
- Mike Mazurki: miners
- Charles McGraw: Lt. Matthews
- Cliff Norton: Reporter
- Zasu Pitts: Gertie
- Carl Reiner: checkpoints in the Tower
- Madlyn Rhue: secretary Black
- Roy Roberts: Policeman in front of garage
- Arnold Stang Ray
- Nick Stewart: foreign lorry drivers
- The Three Stooges: Firefighters
- Sammee Tong: Chinese scrubber
- Jesse White: Radio tower operator at Rancho airport
A totally, totally insane world is an American comedy film directed by Stanley Kramer in 1963 with Spencer Tracy in the title role. A conspicuous number of stars occupy even small supporting roles in the film, further find several cameo appearances instead.
Action
On a curvy road no longer caught Smiler Grogan, who had noticed the other road users already by his dangerous driving, a curve and crashes his car down a slope. Several helpful motorists rush to the accident site. The Rogue the dying can you just say that he has buried in the park of Santa Rosita, a " big W" $ 350,000.
Now begins a turbulent treasure hunt, first in the form of a road race, later even come flying aircraft. All parties want the buried money for himself alone and try to outsmart the competitors. But not only the accident witnesses mutate from peaceful contemporaries greedy monsters: Captain Culpepper also by the criminal Santa Rosita, who was behind Grogan been a long time, the prey is not only for professional reasons on the track. When the crowd finally finds the money and just wants to negotiate, it is stolen by Culpepper - only to be blown away after a scuffle at dizzying heights by the wind.
Reviews
"Into the grotesque exaggerated, over-long adventure spectacle with moralistic tendency, full of absurd humor and cynical swipes. "
Background
- Stanley Kramer made the film for United Artists ago.
- The movie was shot in Ultra Panavision.
- Originally the film was planned as Cinerama production. However, it was decided to Ultra Panavision for cost reasons. A Cinerama copy ( from 3 in 1 ), however, was the early 90s rediscovered and published in part on laser disc.
- The leader of the film designed Saul Bass.
- A stop-motion scene was performed by Willis O'Brien and Jim Danforth.
- Despite Doubles some main characters not escaped without injuries.
Awards
Synchronization
The German synchronous processing was 1963.