IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD (1959)

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t's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

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For the 1987 Hong Kong comedy and its sequels, see It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
theatrical release poster by Jack Davis
Directed by	Stanley Kramer
Produced by	Stanley Kramer
Written by	William Rose Tania Rose
Starring	Spencer Tracy
Music by	Ernest Gold
Cinematography	Ernest Laszlo
Editing by	Frederic Knudtson Robert C. Jones Gene Fowler, Jr.
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date(s)	November 7, 1963
Running time	161 minutes 210 minutes (Original cut)
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$9.4 million
Box office	$46,332,858

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a 1963 American epic comedy film, produced and directed by Stanley Kramer and starring Spencer Tracy, about the madcap pursuit of $350,000 in stolen cash by a diverse and colorful group of strangers. The ensemblecomedy premiered on November 7, 1963.^[1]

[edit]Principal cast

Spencer Tracy as Captain T. G. Culpeper Jonathan Winters as Lennie Pike Buddy Hackett as "Benjy" Benjamin            Mickey Rooney as "Dingy" Bell Edie Adams as Monica Crump Sid Caesar as Melville Crump

Milton Berle as J. Russell Finch Ethel Merman as Mrs. Marcus Dorothy Provine as Emmeline Marcus-Finch Phil Silvers as Otto Meyer Dick Shawn as Sylvester Marcus Terry-Thomas as Lt. Col. J. Algernon Hawthorne

[edit]Supporting cast

Jim Backus as airplane owner Tyler Fitzgerald William Demarest as Aloysius, Chief of the Santa Rosita Police Department       Jimmy Durante as "Smiler" Grogan Peter Falk as a cab driver

Eddie "Rochester" Anderson as a cab driver Paul Ford as Col. Wilberforce Barrie Chase as Sylvester Marcus' girlfriend

CAMEO: Jerry Lewis as the motorist who runs over Culpeper's hat

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