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MGM Home Entertainment
Directed by: Stanley Kramer
Featuring: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Dick Shawn, Terry-Thomas, Jonathan Winters, Edie Adams, Dorothy Provine, Peter Falk, Buster Keaton, Don Knotts, Carl Reiner, Jack Benny, Moe Howard, Jerry Lewis
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.
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Discs:
BD-50 (2 Discs)
DVD-9 (3 Discs)
Total: 5 Discs
Regions:
A (Blu-ray)
1 (DVD)
Aspect Ratio:
2.76:1
Audio Options:
English Dolby Digital Surround 5.1
English DTS-HD MA Surround 5.1
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Alternate Version, Audio Commentary, Documentary, Television Program, Interview, Q&A, Advertising, Theatrical Trailer, Radio Advertisement, Booklet
- New high-definition digital transfer of a 197-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—including some scenes that have been returned to the film here for the first time—with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New audio commentary featuring It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World aficionados Mark Evanier, Michael Schlesinger, and Paul Scrabo
- New documentary on the film’s visual and sound effects, featuring interviews with visual-effects specialist Craig Barron and sound designer Ben Burtt
- Excerpt from a 1974 talk show hosted by director Stanley Kramer and featuring Mad World actors Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, and Jonathan Winters
- Press interview from 1963 featuring Stanley Kramer and cast members
- Excerpts about the influence of the film from the 2000 AFI program 100 Years . . . 100 Laughs
- Two-part 1963 episode of the TV program Telescope that follows the film’s press junket and premiere
- The Last 70mm Film Festival, a 2012 program featuring Mad World cast and crew, hosted by actor Billy Crystal
- Selection of humorist and voice-over artist Stan Freberg’s original TV and radio ads for the film, with a new introduction by Freberg
- Trailers
- Radio spots
- A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Lou Lumenick and new illustrations by legendary cartoonist Jack Davis, along with a map of the shooting locations by artist Dave Woodman
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