'Smiler' Grogan, an ex-convict wanted by police in a tuna factory robbery fifteen years ago and currently on the run, mountainous State Highway 74 near Palm Springs in Southern California and crashes. Five motorists stop to help him
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February 07, 2014
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World remains a technological and creative marvel for reasons beyond its sometimes fitful ability to make audiences laugh.
February 09, 2006
Kramer's 'comedy to end all comedy' stretches its material to snapping point but offers happy hours of star-spotting.
May 09, 2005
So many excellent actors and stunt men do so much in this film that it is beyond my space allowance to begin to credit them.
November 07, 2007
Stanley Kramer strikes out again with this elephantine 1963 attempt at uproarious comedy.
April 18, 2014
For every inspired set-piece, there are one or two that don't work, making this a frequently frustrating watch.
December 12, 2010
What can you say about a comedy where the Three Stooges are the most sedate people on screen?
November 07, 2007
Spencer Tracy, Sid Caesar, Mickey Rooney and host of good-old-fashioned-comedy chums cram in the action, but miss the laughs in this frantic bank caper comedy.
January 22, 2012
[VIDEO ESSAY] A classic example of the Screwball Comedy genre.
January 23, 2014
There's a documentary-like pleasure in watching so many legends of comedy share the screen... along with the disappointment of watching so many very funny people fail to be funny at all.
November 07, 2007
This comic extravaganza starts off funny, but exhausts rather than delights.
November 07, 2007
The comic competition is so keen that it is impossible to single out any one participant as outstanding.
February 09, 2014
lives up to its intentions as an epic madcap farce, and it offers enough comic variation through the multiple characters and situations that it never feels overlong or monotonous
