It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world
Record details
- ISBN: 1604657995
- ISBN: 9781604657999
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Physical Description:
2 Blu-ray discs (163 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 videodiscs (163 min. : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.)
videodisc - Edition: Dual-format edition.
- Publisher: [Irvington, NY] : The Criterion Collection, [2014]
- Distributor: [Irvington, NY] : The Criterion Collection, [2014]
- Copyright: ©2014
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 1963. General release version and new high-definition digital transfer of 197-minute extended version. Program notes (<18> p.) and illustrated map of movie scene locations (1 folded sheet) inserted in container. Special features: DVD Disc 1: Promotional spots (for 1963 original release & 1970 rerelease); AFI's 100 years... 100 laughs (excerpts from the 2000 AFI program featuring comedians and actors discussing the influence of the film). DVD Disc 2: The extended version (197 minute version of the film); Commentary (featuring Mark Evanier, Michael Schlesinger and Paul Scrabo); Restoration demonstration. DVD Disc 3: Telescope (two-part 1963 episode of the CBC television program that follows the film's press junket and premiere): Part one: "A winter's tale", Part two: "Junket into madness"; Press interview, 1963 (with director Stanley Kramer and cast members Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Mickey Rooney, and Jonathan Winters); Stanley Kramer's reunion with the great comedy artists of our time (excerpt from a 1974 talk show hosted by Kramer and featuring Mad World actors Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, and Jonathan Winters); The last 70 mm Film Festival (a 2012 program featuring Mad world cast and crew at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, hosted by actor Billy Crystal); Sound and vision (short documentary on the films use of visual and sound effects featuring visual effects expert Craig Barron and sound designer Ben Burtt). Blu-ray discs contain identical special features. Booklet features 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. |
Formatted Contents Note: | [v. 1.] DVD one -- [v. 2.] DVD two -- DVD three -- [v. 3.] BLU-RAY one -- BLU-RAY two. |
Creation/Production Credits Note: | Director of photography, Ernest Laszlo ; production design, Rudolph Sternad ; art director, Gordon Gurnee ; film editors, Frederick Knudtson, Robert C. Jones, Gene Fowler, Jr. ; set decoration, Joseph Kish ; costumes designed by Bill Thomas ; songs: music, Ernest Gold ; lyrics, Mack David ; dance sequence sung by The Shirelles ; music by Ernest Gold conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Dick Shawn, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas, Jonathan Winters, Edie Adams, Dorothy Provine, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Jim Backus, Ben Blue, Joe E. Brown, Alan Carney, Chick Chandler, Barrie Chase, Lloyd Corrigan, William Demarest, Selma Diamond (voice), Andy Devine, Peter Falk, Norman Fell, Paul Ford, Stan Freberg, Louise Glenn (voice), Leo Gorcey, Sterling Holloway, Marvin Kaplan, Edward Everett Horton, Buster Keaton, Don Knotts, Charles Lane, Mike Mazurki, Charles McGraw, Cliff Norton, Zasu Pitts, Carl Reiner, Madlyn Rhue, Roy Roberts, Arnold Stang, Nick Stewart, The Three Stooges, Sammee Tong, Jesse White, Jimmy Durante. |
Summary, etc.: | "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"--Container. |
Target Audience Note: | Rated G. |
System Details Note: | DVD: aspect ratio 2.76:1 widescreen presentation, Dolby Digital, region 1. Blu-ray: Region A ; dts-hd master audio ; 5.1 surround. |
Language Note: | English language track; English SDH. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Part | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kent Memorial Library - Suffield | DVD IT'S (G) (Text) | DVD | 32518129848548 | Adult DVD | Available | - |