me and my best friend at the time went to see this at the local theater when it came out. we must have been about 9 years old. I believe our moms gave us the money for the admission price. they must have thought it was wholesome enough entertainment for us to watch, back then.
One of the best animated title sequences in filmmaking history. This animated title sequence by Saul Bass looks and feels like the Pink Panther cartoons of the 1960s, or even the UPA cartoons of the 1950s.
Saul Bass should have won an Academy Award for his brilliant animating sequence in this classic film. Together with Ernest Gold's delightful soundtrack, undoubtedly it's one of the greatest movie intros to this day I've always found hilariously entertaining :-)
Truly the golden age of American film comedy. Loved this when I was a kid and still do. The perfect cast, a perfect storm of talent coming together. Those magnificent men in their flying machines is also in that mold. Brilliant
there was a remake with the same idea called Rat race, of course i never watched it. the actors in this movie are classic , Sid Ceasar, Johnathan Winters, Milton Berle, Spencer Tracy
Someone else mentioned that too. I've never seen it and don't remember it being around. I don't know if I want to since it couldn't possibly compare. Maybe if it's being streamed free.
Rat Race is a funny movie in it's own right, but it's better to think of it as just a loose remake of IAMMMMW, or just inspired by it, since they really don't have that much in common.
+Steve Dwyer I did and, although it too had a great & talented cast, and a lot of laughs (Jon Lovitz crashing into a WWII veterans parade in a Nazi staff car comes to mind) it could never compare to the original. For starters, it's premise was way less grounded, and the characters are freaks to begin with, rather then a random bunch of ordinary folk who are driven mad by the greed. It spoils the comedy.
Stanley Kramer wanted to make a sequel called “Its A Funny,Funny World” It was scrapped when he died.My guess says it would’ve been about their future children realizes that the money was fake and theirs real money buried deeper and they try to go for it for riches and to avenge their fathers and mothers.
The one who snuck up to the top first was Phil Silvers, which fit his character in this movie...followed by Jonathan Winters, as he kept chasing Silvers. After that, the next ones to go on top were Mickey Rooney and Buddy Hackett, who were the ones who broke "the rules" and declared "Every man for himself!" And then came chaos.
"I'm coming Mama!" Dick Shawn was so funny in this movie. As was everyone else. I first saw this film as a kid in the 60's. It remains one of my all time favorites. Thank you Mr. Kramer.
His girlfriend creeped me out. The way she just keeps permanently staring ahead, unblinking for all her scenes, nor even seeming to realize her boyfriend was in the room. As a kid, I couldn't understand it, in fact, sometimes I wondered if she was an android. I think now that her performance might've been Kramer's tame attempt to make her seem stoned. But I don't know of any drug that could make you seem *that* zoned out, while still leaving you enough energy to dance.
Remember seeing this as a kid. Would love to see this old classic again on the big screen. What a line up of stars! They just don't make them like this now.
IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD is a instant comedy classic. Got the Criterion Collection and it's one of the best collections on Blu-Ray. The entire cast were absolutely hilarious. RIP - to most of the cast and director who's not around already. I salute you all. Saul Bass' best animated sequences in the 1960's. GREAT VID!
Just finished watching my Blu-ray of IAMMMMW for the *second* time since it arrived in the mail yesterday. TOTALLY worth every penny... the picture and sound quality was nothing short of astounding.
I first saw this movie on New Years Day 1988, and I thought it was HILARIOUS! But when I brought it school to see, almost everyone in my class didn’t care for it. One of my classmates, after I told him the name of the movie, thought it was a nature documentary.
@@greggmitchell4173nobody would have a sense of humor now with watching. It shows how mad everyone is. This movie is funny, but look at all the anger and unpleasantry we have now.
They should use title sequences more often these days. They are awesome and it's the only way that makes people sit through the credits. It makes it enjoyable to watch.
I have seen this movie more times than I can count -- on a calculator. Without doubt, my all-time favorite movie. And this opening sequence is a big part of it. I salute you, Mr. Bass.
the most hilariously creative title sequence of all time....my mom used to put this movie on all the time when I was a kid....I can't forget it. There is nothing like it...
I weep for Simpsons fans who saw the "Cat Burglar" episode before they ever saw this movie and spent the final act going "WTF?" I cracked up at every reference. The way Bart just stands there blissfully smiling and waving as Phil Silvers sinks was comedy gold.
It also have cameos by Jerry Lewis and Jack Benny in the film. Stan Laurel was offered for a cameo role. He turned it down that he didn't want to appear in his old age, especially without his partner, Oliver Hardy. Hardy passed away prior to the film's release.
Even some videos on RU-vid. One shows that the 4 palm trees , overlooking the ocean, at Rancho Palos Verdes, near Torrance, CA, where the " big W " scenes were filmed, sadly all have died, and were removed. Only 1 slanted stump is left.
animation produced by Playhouse Pictures. Directed by Bill Melendez. Animated by Bob Carlson, Ruth Kissane, Frank Smith and Bror Lansing Charles Smith, Danny Smith, Hugh Childs, may have been assistants Tab Collar, and Oscar Hannson were likely cameramen , The Layout was by Bernie Gruiver and Ed Levitt and Beverly Robbins and Irene Wyman were in the Ink & paint Department. Ade Wollerys name also appears. You have to look carefully for these names because they only last for a couple frames.
I agree, and I also think that the closing credits of feature films should be as artistic. It is so rare these days at a cinema that anyone stays for the full closing credits. Maybe that's why I love small, indie art house cinemas and attending film festivals, where the audience not only stays of the closing credits, but they often applaud if they enjoyed the film, regardless of whether the director is present or not.
I was a kid when cbs aired this.In fact it was the first movie . I got to stay up late and watch.All the big time comedy actors. This movie is just so funny and everything just clicked.The only thing that sort of like this was caddyshack and a few of the cannonball run movies.Any way this movie is a gem.
I remember seeing this at the Glasgow Coliseum about 1963/4 with both my late parents the Colly was a huge picture house massive cinerama screen and 90 ft wide and was the largest in the UK but watching it could make you dizzy , it was shown on the BBC last year all star cast no special effects then what you saw was real
"Saul Bass one of the great graphic designers of the 20th century" Absolutely. When he left us, he proved irreplaceable. This is the best part of the whole picture. People had criticized Stanley Kramer for being humorless. He made this picture, in order to prove them wrong, but ended up only proving them right. Nevertheless, he managed to direct three masterpieces (On the Beach, The Defiant Ones, and Judgment at Nuremberg), and produce three masterpieces (The Member of the Wedding, High Noon, and The Caine Mutiny).
The driving scenes are incredible in this motion picture...those cars, collectively speaking, woud be worth over a million dollars restored to their original conditions...
Never noticed that the beginning credits say "Our thanks and apologies to" when mentioning the shooting locations of California counties. Now THAT'S classic Kramer.
@RollOnToVictory There is! You'll find it on the soundtrack; available on iTunes and Amazon. And no doubt would someone have uploaded it here somewhere on RU-vid.
This has got be the greatest comedy film evermade. But it loses maximum effect on the small screen, it was meant to be seen in a big theater, much more visually effective. Any other showing minimizes it's greatness.
Para estos titulos, Saul Bass, presenta los creditos de manera alterna combinando tanto secuencias como movimientos y sonidos, con el fin de darle una idea al espectador de lo que puede tratar la produccion siguiente
The first time I saw this movie it was aired by cbs.And with me being grade school.It just so happens that summer vacation started.I will never the promos for it.Its a good not good a great movie.You had all these comendians from zasu pitts ,buster keaton to milton berle jerry lewis to don knotts .And every thing in that movie just came together in this classic.God bless every body who worked on that movie.To the cast and crew the stunt men to the music.I only wished I had meet these guys.
One of the great 20th Century comedies, with a cast that has never been approached since! Released on Nov. 7, 1963 (premiered) in La-La Land (L.A.), at the tail end of the best decade (1953-63) in U.S. history. As events soon showed, the title presaged the awful day only 15 days away, and less than two years later, a murderous, illegal, and disgraceful war that bitterly divided the country into pieces for over a decade. In Spain, Mexico and South American countries, the title was: "El mundo, esta loca, loca, loca." $350,000 in solid silver-gold redeemability that the dollar enjoyed, now is totally fiat (by the King's order) paper currency, un-redeemable in anything tangible, and now has to be well over $3.5 million in 2019 to equal the purchasing power of the 350 Gs in 1963. Any wonder why women were forced to leave home and go to work, when the government-banking axis has secretly and silently stolen 90% of the value of the dollar since 90% silver coinage ended in 1964, and gold redeemability was also ended starting on Aug. 15, 1971. Gobs of paper with some ink slapped on it does not equal wealth or real money! Thanks, Federal Reserve banking cartel and your greedy Uncle for stealing the value of what once was the dominant money (gold and silver coinage and redeemable currency) in the world into just Monopoly play paper!
World went Mad after JFK Assassination took place. Matter of fact, members of the Kennedy Family, went to the movie on November 17th, 1963. President and Mrs. Kennedy were supposed to have a glimpse of the movie after the trip from TX, but unfortunately, that would not happen. I have to admit, with everything ongoing right now, the world is mad now. When I watch the movie, sure explains now, with the anger, and people being unpleasant towards one another.
@@sean1672able111 I read about that on some members of the family seeing it on Sunday the 17th. I did not know (if true) that the President and Jackie were going to see it themselves after they returned from their trip. That's a first in hearing it after almost 57 years. If Stanley Kramer thought the world was as crazy then, what would he title a similar movie now in 2020? I read after the movie premiered, he wanted to add (at least) one more MAD to the title. So, it would have been, "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" with 5 MADs in the title instead of 4.
@@freeguy77 probably it would be a sequel to the way things are now. We're worse, then what November of 1963 was like. True on President Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy coming home from TX to watch the movie.