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A Man of Wealth and Taste
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Out there somewhere beyond the doors of perception
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One of the most endearing movies I have ever seen was Stanley Kramers, It's a Mad Mad Mad World. Virtually every comic, and comic actor from the teens through the 1960's was in that movie. Starting with Buster Keaton, Ben Blue, Zasau Pitts, Jimmy Durante, Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Mickey Rooney, Buddy Hackett, Johnatan Winters, Dick Shawn, Joey Brown and the list goes on and on. Never could a cast like that ever be assembled again. Yet when I see it today I am reminded of how few of those people are left.
As an aside about the movie the directors cut was 4 1/2 hours long ( I think there was about 8 hours of material total) When it was released to the theaters it was around 3 hours long. So somewhere there is an hour and half of material thats never been seen. What a treasure it would be to see the those scenes with those people. Now that is a restoration project that is worth doing.
Hate to get off the subject though.
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