Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, the movie, weren't they looking for a big

[Demonaut]

"W" and and when they found it it contained nothing? Trying to make a fit with our current "W" and greed and empty promises

[Joebert]

1. They found the suitcase full of money under the big W

The analogy doesn't fit, sorry. :-)

That is by far one of the best movies of all time.

[Demonaut]

2. I thought the case was empty...oh well

[Joebert]

4. Nope, they found it...

Spencer Tracy (the cop) takes it and runs off, heading for Mexico. Everybody else chases him to the top of a building, where they all climb down the fire escape.

This building is about to be demolished, and is falling apart.

They get stuck on the fire escape, struggle over the suitcase, it pops open, showering money on the crowd below.


And THIS is why a partial photographic memory is a bad thing. I can remember everything about movies I've seen once, 20 years ago, but I'm worthless with important stuff.

[Demonaut]

6. youre right.....god its been awhile since I've watched that movie....

[Geoff R. Casavant]

7. My wife says

All the useless info in my brain has forced out my Pulitzer Prize novel.

[A HERETIC I AM]

12. You forgot the Hook and Ladder Fire Truck......

Remember? They all try and get on the ladder and it starts to swing out of control, throwing them off one by one.

One of the funniest movies ever, chock full of stars, both big and obscure. Jim Backus as the drunk pilot, for instance. The guy who played "Rochester" on the Jack Benny show as a cab driver....and on and on....

[Joebert]

22. So much in that movie.

The Three Stooges as firemen.
Dick Shawn as Sylvester.


But, the scene, in the hospital with every one of them laughing warms my heart. I love that scene.

[Turbineguy]

13. I remember that building.....

downtown Longbeach CA.

Gawd, I'm old....

[valerief]

3. Great movie, but the W did contain buried treasure

The ensuing fight over the money resulted in the greedy characters getting injured and arrested and money flew down from the sky to the crowd of people below.

So below W, there's lots and lots and lots of money. And lots and lots of people will play cutthroat for it. But they better watch out. Their greed may get the better of them.

[TahitiNut]

5. But the "W" had its palms out.

:evilgrin:

[valerief]

9. LOL!!!

[karlrschneider]

28. SO it DID! LOL!

:D

[Must_B_Free]

8. Don't you think W is really M anyway?

Dubya purports to be W - open armed to catch and cradle you, but he's really - M "I'm stomping you with my two feet, but since I'm M I can lie about it and pretend to be W.

Sort of like a Goofus who pretends he's his brother Gallant.

[Brother Buzz]

10. "It's the Big "W", I tell ya! - Jonathan Winters

Money was recovered then lost - scattered to the four corners of the world...an entire loss.

on edit: maybe your analogy does work by pointing out the folly of all the sheeple that support Bush*; chase after the 'pie in the sky', and lose everything.

[oasis]

14. Wow great pic. Mickey Rooney, Terry Thomas, Dotty Provine, Edie

Gorme. Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Sid Ceasar...I think that's Larry Storch in the shorts.

[charlie]

16. Dick Shawn

I'm coming, Mammaaaaaaa, I'm coming!!!!

[oasis]

21. That's it. He was funny as hell.

:bounce:

[charlie]

23. Oh man, he was BRILLIANT in The Producers

Where's Joe? Where's my Little Joe? Tha's my Little Joe, lay some skin on me, BAY-BEE!

[oasis]

27. He must have been hanging out with some hip folks for those days.

[Brother Buzz]

17. Buddy Hackett and Phil Silvers, too!

[unrepuke]

19. Not Storch, Dick _________ (?) played Merman's son

Where did I leave my memory?

I think that's Durante in the very back


Buster Keaton was in it, and 2/3 of the Stooges

[TahitiNut]

20. Dick Shawn

:shrug:

[oasis]

25. Had the beatnik sterotype down pat.

[unrepuke]

29. Yes, somehow I thought of Sean, didn't seem right. Thanks

[speedoo]

33. Milton Berle, Ethel Merman, Sid Ceasar, Jack Benny and Buster Keaton..

did cameos.

I've seen it at least 10 times, but I always find something new to enjoy.

Very funny and unique movie.

[Democrats_win]

11. After they found the money, Spencer Tracy, the cop, tried to steal it.

The others figure out the double-cross and chase him to the city where they all end up on a fire-truck ladder high above the crowd. They spill the money into the crowd and are thrown off the ladder. The final scene is of the men in a hospital ward in casts, moaning and Spencer Tracy saying how bad everything turned out. Then Ethel Mermin walks in complaining and slipping on a banana peel. Finally, everyone, including Tracy, laughs at her falling.

[Oeditpus Rex]

18. Capt. Culpepper (Tracy) planned the whole thing

He'd worked on the original Smiler Grogan (Jimmy Durante) case, knew Grogan had been released from prison and that he'd immediately go get the money, so he had him tailed. (Remember all the helicopters?) When Grogan wrecked his car and died, Culpepper put tails on all the cars in the treasure-hunting party, who saw the wreck.

Third-funniest movie in history, behind "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" and "Blazing Saddles."

Let the debate begin. :popcorn:

[BrklynLiberal]

15. An absolutely incredible cast....

Remember Jimmy Durante "kicks the bucket" at the beginning..?

Spencer Tracy .... Capt. C. G. Culpepper
Milton Berle .... J. Russell Finch
Sid Caesar .... Melville Crump, DDS
Buddy Hackett .... Benjy Benjamin
Ethel Merman .... Mrs. Marcus
Mickey Rooney .... Ding 'Dingy' Bell
Dick Shawn .... Sylvester Marcus
Phil Silvers .... Otto Meyer
Terry-Thomas .... Lt.Col. J. Algernon Hawthorne
Jonathan Winters .... Lennie Pike
Edie Adams .... Monica Crump
Dorothy Provine .... Emeline Marcus-Finch
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson .... Second cab driver
Jim Backus .... Tyler Fitzgerald
Ben Blue .... Biplane pilot
Joe E. Brown .... Union official
Alan Carney .... Police sergeant
Chick Chandler .... Detective outside Chinese laundromat
Barrie Chase .... Sylvester's girlfriend
Lloyd Corrigan .... The Mayor
William Demarest .... Police Chief Aloysius aka Al
Andy Devine .... Sheriff of Crockett County
Selma Diamond .... Ginger Culpeper, Voice on Telephone (voice)
Peter Falk .... Third cab driver
Norman Fell .... Detective at Grogan's crash site
Paul Ford .... Col. Wilberforce
Stan Freberg .... Deputy sheriff
Leo Gorcey .... First cab driver
Sterling Holloway .... Fire Chief
Edward Everett Horton .... Mr. Dinck
Buster Keaton .... Jimmy the Crook (as Keaton)
Don Knotts .... Nervous Motorist
Mike Mazurki .... Miner
Charles McGraw .... Lt. Matthews
Cliff Norton .... Reporter
Zasu Pitts .... Gertie (switchboard operator)
Carl Reiner .... Tower controller at Rancho Conejo
Madlyn Rhue .... Secretary Schwartz
Roy Roberts .... Policeman outside Irwin & Ray's Garage
Arnold Stang .... Ray
Nick Stewart .... Migrant truck driver
Joe DeRita .... Fireman (as The Three Stooges)
Larry Fine .... Fireman (as The Three Stooges)
Moe Howard .... Fireman (as The Three Stooges)
Sammee Tong .... Chinese laundryman
Jesse White .... Radio tower operator at Rancho Conejo
Jimmy Durante .... Smiler Grogan
Jack Benny

[oasis]

24. They don't make 'em like that anymore.

:-(

[Joebert]

26. They could try, but it would cost $800 million.

Nobody would work cheap.

And they could never get over egos enough to make a magic movie.

[unrepuke]

30. Leo Gorcey? MUGGS! Dang, now I'll HAVE to watch it again...

What a line up of personalities. It could never happen again.

[A HERETIC I AM]

31. It IS an astounding cast....Thanks BrklynLiberal, for posting the

entire cast. As an above poster suggests, could you imagine getting a list of present day types like that together for a comedy? So many of those guys had such astounding careers and, to be sure, so many of them were screwed out of money that was most certainly due them. The 3 Stooges come to mind for starters.

They'll never make another movie like "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World"

[charlie]

32. The listing missed Jerry Lewis n/t

[Joebert]

34. Driving the car, running over Culpepper's hat! :-)

[charlie]

35. EggZackly!

Hee! :thumbsup:

[Joebert]

36. As I said above, partially photographic memory.

Movie scenes? Cemented in there forever.
Useful stuff? Gone in seconds.