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27. "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"

Sat Apr 20, 2013, 08:29 AM

Apr 2013

Is one of my favorite movies... and, one in which Mr. Winters played a role.

He was the crazed gas station attendant who was drawn into the race toward the "Big W" to find the tuna factory robbery loot.

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

"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 ensemble comedy premiered on November 7, 1963."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_a_Mad,_Mad,_Mad,_Mad_World

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