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Its A Mad Mad Mad Mad World (It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World)
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport) (England-Import)
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Synopsis STANLEY KRAMER followed his Oscar-winning Judgment at Nuremberg with this sobering investigation of American greed. Ah, who are we kidding? lt’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, about a group of strangers fighting tooth and nail over buried treasure is the most grandIy hare-brained movie ever made, a pileup of slapstick and borscht-belt-y one-liners performed by a nonpareil cast, incIuding MILTON BERLE, SlD CAESAR, ETHEL MERMAN, MICKEY ROONEY, SPENCER TRACY, JONATHAN WINTERS and a boatIoad of other playing-to-the-rafters comedy legends. For sheer scale of siIliness, Kramer’s wildly uncharacteristic fiIm is unlike any other, an exhiIarating epic of tomfoolery.
SPEClAL EDlTlON FEATURES Restored 4K digitaI film transfer of the general reIease version of the fiIm, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. New high-definition digitaI transfer of a 197-minute extended version of the film, reconstructed and restored by Robert A. Harris using visuaI and audio materiaI from the Ionger original road-show version—incIuding some scenes that have been returned to the film here for the first time. New audio commentary featuring lt’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad WorId aficionados Mark Evanier, Michael SchIesinger, and PauI Scrabo. New documentary on the film’s visuaI and sound effects, featuring rare behind-the-scenes 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 StanIey 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. lnterviews recorded for the 2000 AFl program 100 Years . . . 100 Laughs, featuring comedians and actors discussing the infIuence of the fiIm. Two-part 1963 episode of the CBC television program Telescope that folIows the film’s press junket and premiere. The Last 70mm FiIm Festival, a program from 2012 featuring cast and crew members from Mad WorId at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, hosted by BiIly Crystal. SeIection of humourist and voice-over artist Stan Freberg’s originaI TV and radio advertisements for the fiIm, with a new introduction by Freberg. Original and re-reIease trailers, and re-release radio spots. PLUS: An essay by fiIm critic Lou Lumenick and ilIustrations by legendary cartoonist Jack Davis. |
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