It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
'Smiler' Grogan, an ex-convict wanted by police in a tuna factory robbery fifteen years ago and currently on the run, mountainous State Highway 74 near Palm Springs in Southern California and crashes. Five motorists stop to help him
2 March 1906, Fayette County, Iowa, USA
16 February 1926, Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
11 November 1925, Dayton, Ohio, USA
19 June 1917, Paducah, Kentucky, USA
October 1, 1909 in White Valley, Pennsylvania, USA
16 April 1927, Kingston, Pennsylvania, USA
21 July 1924, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
22 December 1909, Brooklyn, New York, USA
5 August 1920, Montréal, Québec, Canada
16 September 1927, New York City, New York, USA
28 November 1901, Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico
20 March 1922, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
6 April 1898, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
28 September 1918, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
15 July 1885, New York City, New York, USA
1 November 1905, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
October 25, 1924 in Michigan, USA
20 January 1935, Deadwood, South Dakota, USA
11 May 1911, New York City, New York, USA
7 August 1926, Pasadena, California, USA
27 April 1893, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
10 May 1904, Oklahoma, USA
31 May 1915, New York City, New York, USA
12 December 1911, Council Grove, Kansas, USA
October 5, 1907 in Vilna, Russia
February 14, 1894 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
24 March 1924, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
16 January 1920, New York City, New York, USA
26 January 1905, San Francisco, California, USA
December 12, 2010
What can you say about a comedy where the Three Stooges are the most sedate people on screen?
November 07, 2007
Spencer Tracy, Sid Caesar, Mickey Rooney and host of good-old-fashioned-comedy chums cram in the action, but miss the laughs in this frantic bank caper comedy.
November 07, 2007
This comic extravaganza starts off funny, but exhausts rather than delights.
January 23, 2014
There's a documentary-like pleasure in watching so many legends of comedy share the screen... along with the disappointment of watching so many very funny people fail to be funny at all.
May 09, 2005
So many excellent actors and stunt men do so much in this film that it is beyond my space allowance to begin to credit them.
February 07, 2014
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World remains a technological and creative marvel for reasons beyond its sometimes fitful ability to make audiences laugh.
April 18, 2014
For every inspired set-piece, there are one or two that don't work, making this a frequently frustrating watch.
November 07, 2007
The comic competition is so keen that it is impossible to single out any one participant as outstanding.
January 22, 2012
[VIDEO ESSAY] A classic example of the Screwball Comedy genre.
February 09, 2006
Kramer's 'comedy to end all comedy' stretches its material to snapping point but offers happy hours of star-spotting.
February 09, 2014
lives up to its intentions as an epic madcap farce, and it offers enough comic variation through the multiple characters and situations that it never feels overlong or monotonous
November 07, 2007
Stanley Kramer strikes out again with this elephantine 1963 attempt at uproarious comedy.
