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Title: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (The Criterion Collection)
Condition: New
Format: Blu-ray
EAN: 0715515204712
Genre: Comedy
Release Date: 10/10/2017
Description: 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.

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
- High-definition digital transfer of a 202-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
- Audio commentary featuring It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World aficionados Mark Evanier, Michael Schlesinger, and Paul Scrabo
- 2013 documentary on the film's visual 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 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 humorist and voice-over artist Stan Freberg's original TV and radio advertisements for the film, with a 2013 introduction by Freberg
- Original and rerelease trailers, and rerelease radio spots
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Lou Lumenick
Country/Region of Manufacture: USA
Studio: Criterion Collection
Language: English
Subtitle Language: English
Director: Stanley Kramer
Actor: Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Spencer Tracy
Rating: G (General Audience)
No Of Discs: 2
Run Time: 2 hours and 43 minutes
Region Code: Blu-ray: A (Americas, Southeast Asia...)
Release Year: 2017

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