Fancy Movie Time #23 - It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Added 2024-11-29 07:00:05 +0000 UTCOn this episode of Fancy Movie Time with Brian and A.J., the Fancy Lads hop in a biplane and knock out Jim Backus as they cover Stanley Kramer's 1963 mega-comedy: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Do its wide array of comedic stars and its commitment to throwing every bit at the wall make it a Fancy Feast? Or does its lugubrious pacing and cast of mostly comedic non-actors make it a Failure to Fancy? One thing's for sure: people in 1960s San Diego really loved to DANCE.
Next Episode: Ace in the Hole (1951)
Comments
too many ostriches mentioned 🗣
Ciara Rhiannon
2025-05-14 11:57:43 +0000 UTCLittle known fact, Saul Bass's mother was pushed over a cliff by Dalmatians.
BarFly
2024-12-03 13:22:41 +0000 UTCThat collection of skits I used to watch is on YouTube apparently! It's called Milton Berle The Second Time Around. It's got the play he puts on where he acts as 3 of the 4 characters, and it's still hilarious!
Dergon
2024-12-02 19:33:32 +0000 UTCFurther proof of my strange childhood is that I loved old-school, Texaco Star Theatre slapstick Milton Berle. My grandparents had a vhs tape collection that I watched over and over. I might even still have them. The scene with him prancing around in a smoking jacket, saying, "Shot mother, you know. Bow and arrow. Didn't want to wake the children." Has lived in my head since I don't even know how young. I really need to see this movie! Can't believe AJ thought Milton Berle was Groucho Marx.
Dergon
2024-12-02 17:11:25 +0000 UTCThis should be interesting to listen to you, because I saw this movie when we were shown it as a reward for something in elementary school. I don't remember liking it that much, it seemed really long, and just remember having no clue what was going on and some part at the end with people hanging on to a telephone wire? I don't remember thinking it was funny, I just remember being confused. So I'm looking forward to being told why this is a good movie, or not.
Elizabeth Power
2024-11-30 23:45:51 +0000 UTCThe line “it must have been in a Nora Ephron movie” made me check to see if it was in the Nic Cage throwback rom com IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU which I have a soft spot for cause I feel like with some minor cuts you could just release it in 1939 and no one would bat an eye
John Leavitt
2024-11-30 00:46:07 +0000 UTCbut Jafar is already sexy Jafar
Nemo
2024-11-29 12:02:16 +0000 UTCI confused this movie with another for a minute. Either way, a great episode and I, for one, would definitely want a Murder by Death episode
Peter Larkin
2024-11-29 12:01:50 +0000 UTCOh damn! I've actually seen this one a few times! Even rewatched in last year just to see if it was as funny as I remembered it. Verdict: kinda?
Ember
2024-11-29 09:18:07 +0000 UTC
