It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: The Criterion Collection

Summary

With a restored 4K digital film transfer of the general release version of the film, The Criterion Collection and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is releasing It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World on Blu-ray 4th September 2017.

Cast

Spencer Tracy, Phil Silvers, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Edie Adams, Jonathan Winters

Director

Stanley Kramer

Producer

Stanley Kramer

Distributor

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Run time

2 hours 43 minutes

Release date

04/09/2017

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#ItsAMadMadMadMadWorld #TheCriterionCollection

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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.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: The Criterion Collection is released on Blu-ray 4th September 2017 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

Special Features

Restored 4K digital film transfer of the general release version of the film, with 5.1 surround Master Audio soundtrack
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 5.1surround Master Audio soundtrack
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 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 programme 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 new introduction by Freberg
Original and rerelease trailers, and rerelease radio spots
Two Blu-rays
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Lou Lumenick

Please note - Disc special features are subject to change, may differ from format to format and/or may differ from region to region.

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