One of My All-Time Favorite Movies Is On RIGHT NOW!!!!

[CO Liberal]

"It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World" - on Turner Classic Movies.

:-)

[TheDebbieDee]

1. I'm watching it, too.........

Just about everyone that was in this movie is dead now. So sad.

[PCIntern]

2. did you know that there's a guy

whose life's work is the finding of all the 'lost' snippets of the original movie, which I saw when it came out in Cinerama theater in Philly?

It was originally, I think, almost 4 hours long, and supposedly there was a print which was even longer.

[CO Liberal]

4. I Think The Only Ones Left....

...are Mickey Rooney, Jonathan Winters, and Sid Caesar.

[TheDebbieDee]

5. Sid Caesar is dead. He died about 8 years ago.

[CO Liberal]

6. No He Didn't

He was on "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" a few years ago.

[TheDebbieDee]

8. Sorry, I've been burying people alive all over the place today.

[CBGLuthier]

9. Don't forget Edie Adams

She played Sid Caesar's wife and in real life is the magnificent Ernie Kovacs widow.

And amongst the cameeos and other small parts, Don Knotts, Carl Reiner and Arnold Stang.

[CO Liberal]

10. That's Right

Edie Adams is on the screen as I'm typing this.

BTW - Spencer Tracy's wife (the nagging voice on the telephone) - was that Selma Diamond?

[CBGLuthier]

12. yes it is Selma Diamond

I also forgot Jerry Lewis amongst the cameos. Guess I may have to pull out the DVD when I get home and give it a re watch.

[CO Liberal]

14. Edie Adams Must Have Made This Film Right After Ernie Kovacs Died

When he died in a car crash in 1962, he left Edie with huge debts, largely from gambling. That's when she started doing those Muriel cigar commercials, to pay off Ernie's debts.

[mockmonkey]

18. and Peter Falk

also Stan Freberg, he's sitting with Andy Devine but has no lines.

[3trievers]

3. one of the best

I laughed so long and often while watching that movie I felt emotionally drained afterward.It is a great movie.

[alwynsw]

7. It's got a much better "W" at the end than we do.

Sorry if I've ruined it for you. I wonder if theres a message from TCM here about the hollowness of getting "W".

[devilgrrl]

11. That movie STILL cracks my shit up!!!!

One of the best comedies EVER!!!!

Great movie!

[TheMightyFavog]

13. This is no place for a convertble!!!

The guy damn near drowned when they shot that scene.

[CO Liberal]

15. That "Guy" Was Phil Silvers

A very underrated performer, IMHO.

[TheMightyFavog]

16. I wonder if that big palm tree W is still there?

:shrug:

[OneBlueSky]

17. greatest collection of comics ever assembled anywhere . . .

it took me several viewings before I even spotted and identified all of them . . . wonderful movie, and I never tire of watching it . . . :)

[pagerbear]

19. Just finished watching it!

I could have smacked the guy who called on the phone just as it was starting.