| It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963),
				Director: Stanley Kramer, Rated Approved 
				the biggest 
				entertainment ever to rock the screen with laughter! 
				
		  Starring: 
Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey 
Rooney, Dick Shawn, Phil Silvers, Terry Thomas, Jonathan Winters, Edie Adams, 
Dorothy Provine, Jim Backus, Peter Falk, Norman Fell, Jimmy Durante 
				DML Rating: 
				★★★★★★★★☆☆ 
				- great 
				"Listen, anything you 
				got to say about your mother in-law, you don't have to explain 
				to me. You know what I mean? Like if she were the star of a real 
				crummy horror movie, I'd believe it." – 
				Lennie Pike 
				Why watch this? It 
				certainly IS madness... wonderful, calamity-filled comedy 
				by the industry's comedic heavyweights. 
				Plot Summary: 
				At the scene of an auto accident, escaped convict, Smiley Grogan, with his last breath, 
				reveals to a group of witnesses that there's $350,000 buried 
				underneath the "big W" in Santa Rosita State Park. This starts a 
				madcap race to the park (several hundred miles away) by four 
				desperate packs of money-grubbers, the likes the world has never 
				seen. By car, plane, truck, these lunatics will do ANYTHING to 
				get there first and nab the cash. All this attracts the 
				attention of Police Captain T. G. Culpepper who is literally 
				days from retiring. Dad's Preview: 
				Why all the insanity? That's easy - it's all about money, an 
				induced green-fever, if you will. This flick marks a pinnacle of stunt-filled 
				comedy, and it is a joy to watch each veteran comedian scheme to 
				outwit, out-distance, and out-last the others. It is truly an 
				adventurous spectacle to behold, but you might want to take a 
				mild sedative beforehand.   
				 Casey Productions; 
				United Artists
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