Mad Mad Cinerama World: Not Your Usual G-Rated Movie (5)
UNITED STATES When “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” was re-released in 1970, it got slapped with a G-rating. Heck, I was seven years old and already had a sense that a G-rating was bad yawning Disney juju, fun for the whole family. Like Jerry Seinfeld has said, “Fun for the whole family seldom is.” But MMMMW this is not your mother’s G-movie.
Mad World was like wow, it’s funny and brings a tear to one’s eye and it has one really risqué sequences, and there is death and destruction galore. Smiler Grogan crashing off a desert cliff; Jonathan Winters with his bare-hands destroying a brand-new gas station.
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UNITED STATES This extravaganza from MGM-United Artists was going to keep us kids, respectively eight and six years old, up way late past the edge of midnight. Back then the limit was eight p.m. on a school night when my sister and I could be tucked away in our beds.
It’s a
Mad Mad Mad Mad World took us to arid Southern California presenting a sharp contrast with our own boringly mild Mediterranean Central Coast. On-location filming was sweltering. Action is immediate after the cartoon title sequence, Smiler Grogan (Jimmy Durante) is racing like maniac around a curve in an inhospitable mountain high desert road, driving like a madman, passing cars and trucks, horns blare and then, as Russell Finch (Milton Berle’s character describes), he “just sailed out there,” and crashes on the rocks below. Who can imagine anything but the old man splat all over the rocks and these sundry motorists stop to check up on the old man (Durante). They catch up just in time fo
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