It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) Appreciation Thread

Discussion in 'Visual Arts' started by beatleswho, Nov 1, 2019.

  1. longdist01

    longdist01 Senior Member

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    "What are you, the hostess?"​
     
  2. RayS

    RayS A Little Bit Older and a Little Bit Slower

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    With Carl Reiner’s passing, Barrie Chase is the last cast member still with us as best as I can tell.
     
  3. Brian Hoffman

    Brian Hoffman Obsessive fanatic extraordinaire

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    So much to love in this movie, but those scenes with her are just so bonkers and amazing.
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  4. cloggedmind

    cloggedmind Doctor Do-Very-Little

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    "Man, I feel like.."

    Odd fragment of dialogue, but it sticks.
     
  5. Wildest cat from montana

    Wildest cat from montana Humble Reader

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    Just watched a YouTube clip of Jonathan Winters talking about this movie. I didn't know it was the first film he did after getting out of the looney bin.
     
  6. Scooterpiety

    Scooterpiety Ars Gratia Artis

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    Nicholas Georgiade (Norman Fell's partner) is still with us as well. I assume the kid who played Mike Mazurki's (the miner) son is likely still around.
     
  7. longdist01

    longdist01 Senior Member

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    rewatching Criterion Blu-Ray this weekend, and thank you so much for this!
     
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  8. longdist01

    longdist01 Senior Member

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    Billy Crystal w/ some of the cast at
    reception for "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" at Samuel Goldwyn Theater
    on July 9, 2012 in Beverly Hills, CA​
     
  9. geetar_await

    geetar_await I heart Linux.

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    I think this is the only movie I saw where I laughed almost non-stop from beginning to end.
     
  10. beatleswho

    beatleswho Forum Resident Thread Starter

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    Is just a perfect movie. I always laugh when i see it. I love the characters and the stories
     
  11. EdgardV

    EdgardV ®

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    I recognize most pictured; but not sure who the three are on the left.

    The blonde with the necklaces can't be Dorthy Provine, she reportedly died in 2010.
     
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  12. RayS

    RayS A Little Bit Older and a Little Bit Slower

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    I believe that’s Stan Freberg on the far left. The blonde woman is Stanley Kramer’s widow. I don’t know the man.
     
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  13. longdist01

    longdist01 Senior Member

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    In this photo Stan Frieberg can be seen in light blue sweater, to right Marshall Schlom (Script Supervisor) and in jacket/ blue shirt Casting Dir. Lynn Stalmaster.
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  14. Scooterpiety

    Scooterpiety Ars Gratia Artis

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    No, that isn't Stan. The man on the far left is script supervisor Marshall Schlom, next to him is casting director Lynn Stalmaster.
     
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  15. Scooterpiety

    Scooterpiety Ars Gratia Artis

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    Longdist beat me to it!
     
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  16. EdgardV

    EdgardV ®

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    You must mean “light blue sport jacket,” not “sweater?” (the guy with a cane just behind Jonathan Winters).
     
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  17. helter

    helter Forum Resident

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    Thanks for this thread ....great stuff
     
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  18. Anthrax

    Anthrax Forum Resident

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    I've only watched this movie once, when I was around 12. We rented it and I watched it with my parents. I only remember a few things, more like snapshots than anything else, but I remember it being very funny and we all enjoyed it. At one point in the movie a couple of guys are arguing at a gas station (I think), and it prompted my father to remark something along the lines of, "... if this movie had been made today, that argument would've been filled with swear words and bad language."

    I've always had that evening watching it with my parents as a lovely memory, and every time I see the film mentioned I feel nothing but fondness for it.
     
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  19. Wildest cat from montana

    Wildest cat from montana Humble Reader

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    So watch it again !
     
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  20. Anthrax

    Anthrax Forum Resident

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    Oh, I totally should.
     
  21. gonz

    gonz Forum Resident

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    Jerry Lewis swerving to hit the hat is the biggest laugh, imo. I laugh just thinking about it.
     
  22. MikaelaArsenault

    MikaelaArsenault Forum Resident

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  23. Hooperfan

    Hooperfan Your friendly neighborhood candy store owner

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  24. MikaelaArsenault

    MikaelaArsenault Forum Resident

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    Yes. He was a part of the movie as the casting director.
     
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  25. Gramps Tom

    Gramps Tom Forum Resident

    I've been blessed to watch this film dozens of times during my 60+ years of life. It has become a part of me so much so, I'm glad it hasn't 'aged well'. The period it was created and set in makes the story so much better. After all, NOSTALGIA is a very strong drug. Take only as prescribed.

    I remember watching it with my dad and brother whenever it came on a Rockford or Chicago channel. We stopped the world to laugh so hard, we stopped breathing for a few hours. I just sent my almost 90 yr old dad this blu ray along with the Jack Lemmon Out of Towners films, another movie we laughed so hard watching.

    Wish I could relive the experience of watching it for the first time.....
     
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