A totally, totally crazy world

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Movie
German title A totally, totally crazy world
Original title It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1963
length
  • Premiere: 193 minutes
  • US version: 182 minutes
  • German version: 154 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Stanley Kramer
script William Rose
Tania Rose
production Stanley Kramer
music Ernest Gold
camera Ernest Laszlo
cut Gene Fowler Jr.
Robert C. Jones
Frederic Knudtson
occupation
synchronization

A totally, totally crazy world is a 1963 American comedy film directed by Stanley Kramer and starring Spencer Tracy . A noticeable number of stars even play small supporting roles in the film, and there are also various cameo appearances .

action

Smiler Grogan once robbed a tuna factory and looted a fortune. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison. He never revealed the hiding place of the money. When he is released, the police are on his heels, hoping he will lead them to the money.

On a mountainous, winding road in California , Smiler, who had already caught the attention of other road users due to his risky driving style, no longer catches a curve and falls down a slope in his car. Several helpful drivers rush to the scene of the accident. The dying crook can barely tell you that he buried $ 350,000 under a "big W" in Santa Rosita Park.

First of all, drivers do not know how to handle the information. After a few grotesque driving maneuvers, they meet and discuss how to proceed. It is agreed that it would not be immoral to keep the money. However, after a discussion about the distribution key, they split up in a dispute.

Now a turbulent treasure hunt begins, first in the form of a street race, later even airplanes are used. Everyone involved wants to have the buried money for themselves and try to outsmart the competition. But not only the accident witnesses mutate from peaceful contemporaries to greedy monsters: Captain Culpeper from the Santa Rosita Police Department, who had been after Grogan for a long time, is also on the trail of the prey not only for professional reasons.

When the crowd finally finds the money and is about to negotiate, it is stolen by Culpeper - only to be blown by the wind after a scuffle at a dizzying height. The film ends in the hospital, in which the people involved lie in the same room with serious injuries and abuse each other.

Reviews

"Exaggerated into the grotesque, overly long adventure spectacle with a moralizing tendency, full of absurd comedy and cynical swipes."

- Lexicon of international film

William Rose wrote the script for "A Totally, Totally Crazy World" together with his wife Tania. Rose, who had also submitted the script for " Ladykillers ", could have set off a bitter fireworks display of gags and punchlines, had it not been for Kramer's finger. So the pure glee all too often falls by the wayside. "

- prism

background

  • The film has an intermission , a break of several minutes during which only music can be heard. It is missing from some TV broadcasts and publications.
  • The film initially had a length of 210 minutes. It was cut to 192 minutes for the premiere. The studio removed another 40 minutes. In 2014, a 197-minute version was released on DVD and Blu-ray, which was painstakingly reconstructed from various sources and which in some places only consists of audio scenes with still images or sketch drawings.
  • The American Film Institute voted the film # 40 of the Best American Comedies of All Time.
  • Stanley Kramer made the film for United Artists .
  • The film was shot in Ultra Panavision .
  • The film was originally planned as a Cinerama production. However, for reasons of cost it was decided to use Ultra-Panavision. However, a Cinerama copy (from 1 to 3) was rediscovered in the early 1990s and some of it was published on Laserdisc.
  • Saul Bass designed the opening credits for the film .
  • One stop-motion scene, the Finale on the Fire Escape, was performed by Willis O'Brien and Jim Danforth ; O'Brien did not live to see the film's completion.
  • Despite doubles, some of the leading actors did not get away with injuries.
  • The film Rat Race - The Naked Madness takes up the idea of ​​the film; The motif of the race, however, is a bet. A Bollywood remake was shot in 2007 under the title Dhamaal . The second season of the Prison Break series is also often compared to the film.
  • The 1966 James Brown hit It's a Man's Man's Man's World alludes to the original title of this film.

Awards

synchronization

The German synchronous editing was created in 1963.

role actor Voice actor
Cpt. TG Culpeper Spencer Tracy Walter Süssenguth
J. Russell Finch Milton Berle Arnold Marquis
Melville Crump Sid Caesar Curt Ackermann
Benjy Benjamin Buddy Hackett Wolfgang Gruner
Mrs. Marcus Ethel Merman Friedel Schuster
Thing "Dingy" Bell Mickey Rooney Gerd Duwner
Sylvester Marcus Dick Shawn Michael Chevalier
Otto Meyer Phil Silvers Franz Otto Kruger
J. Algernon Hawthorne Terry Thomas John Pauls-Harding
Lennie Pike Jonathan Winters Benno Hoffmann
Monica Crump Edie Adams Ingeborg Wellmann
Emeline Marcus-Finch Dorothy Provine Claudia Brodzinska
Second taxi driver Eddie "Rochester" Anderson Martin Hirthe
Third taxi driver Peter Falk Bruno W. Pantel

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A totally, totally crazy world. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ A totally, totally crazy world on prisma.de
  3. ↑ Prison Break: Season 4. In: popmatters.com. Retrieved December 14, 2016 .
  4. ^ 'Prison Break' Spots a European Gold Finch - Screener. In: screenertv.com. Retrieved December 14, 2016 .
  5. ↑ EYEWEAR, THE BLOG: Review: Prison Break, Season 1. In: toddswift.blogspot.de. Retrieved December 14, 2016 .
  6. ↑ A totally, totally crazy world in the German dubbing index ; Retrieved September 5, 2010