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Summary:
With this all-star Cinerama epic, producer/director Stanley Kramer vowed to make "the comedy that would end all comedies." The story begins during a massive traffic jam, caused by reckless driver Smiler Grogan (Jimmy Durante), who, before (literally) kicking the bucket, cryptically tells the assembled drivers that he's buried a fortune in stolen loot, "under the Big W." The various... Full Summary >>

Cast:
Spencer Tracy - (Capt. C.G. Culpepper)
Milton Berle - (J. Russell Finch)
Sid Caesar - (Melville Crump)
Buddy Hackett - (Benjy Benjamin)
Mickey Rooney - (Ding Bell)
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Review:
Only the super-wide screen Cinerama format could hold all of the comedy stars in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, not to mention the title itself. Just as the bloated Cinerama feature How the West Was Won sought to outdo any Western before it, World fancied itself the comedy to end all comedies. It paraded an unparalleled list of fam... Continue >>

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