I haven’t seen ‘It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World’, because when it would show up on holiday TV schedules I was usually playing with my new toys or trying to find batteries for them, so I never had three unbroken hours. But today, Jett and I are going to give our Saturday afternoon over to the pleasures (?) of Stanely Kramer’s 1963 elephant of a movie. I have avoided reading much about it, and sincerely don’t know what it is – though I have some vague memories of massive (for the time) celebrity cameos, people trying to steal something, and perhaps Spencer Tracy. So my one sentence preview will have to be limited to the tagline:
“If ever this mad, mad, mad. mad world needed ‘It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World’ it’s now!” Hope so. But not banking on it.
(Although there’s something about these stills that intrigues me – it seems to be about Spencer Tracy reviewing a series of snazzy-looking cars in a film shot in LA from the original script of ‘Bullitt’)
