Tonight at 8 on TCM. Gotta be one of the funniest movies of all time!
7mm

Absolute classic. It's a shame they couldn't find any decent actors for that movie though.

Ha! Yeah. You woulda thought they coulda found somebody better....

When Jimmy Durante kicked the bucket.

When Jim Backus gave up the stick to mix his old fashioneds.
T: What are you talking about? Alright, I’ll make the next batch. You take the controls.
B: But I don’t know how to fly an airplane.
T: Its really nothing to it.
D: But Benjy can’t fly.
T: Well that’s nonsense, anybody can fly a plane. Now here, I’ll check you out. Put your little hands on the wheel. There, that’s it. Now you have it. Now the feet on the rudder. Got it. There you go, feet on the rudder. That’s it. Who says this boy can’t fly this old plane. There you go. Now I’m gonna make us an old fashioned the old fashioned way, the way dear old dad used to.
B: What if something happens?
T: What can happen to an old fashioned?

I have probably laughed harder at that film than any other. I was always a Jonathon Winters fan, and that was one of his best performances. Although, when Steve Martin and John Candy woke up snuggling with each other, and the "That's not a pillow" line was spoken, I laughed pretty hard then.

I love TCM

Glad I am not,the only one makes me look and feel old

Hank

It's buried under a big double-ya, I tell you. A big double-ya.

Am I the only one who found very little humor in this movie? I was actually bored, couldn't wait to get to the end...

Two thumbs up for Mad Mad!

" So somebody will stumble over the little girls bike in the dark. Well when I finish with you they'll be stumbling over you in the dark. "


Classic actors in a Classic movie.

Saw it at the Cinerama Dome when it was first released.
Doubt I have laughed as hard or as much at any flick since.
A true classic.


Principal cast[edit]


Spencer Tracy as Captain T.G. Culpeper
Edie Adams as Monica Crump
Milton Berle as J. Russell Finch
Sid Caesar as Melville Crump
Buddy Hackett as "Benjy" Benjamin
Ethel Merman as Mrs. Marcus
Dorothy Provine as Emmeline Marcus-Finch
Mickey Rooney as "Dingy" Bell
Dick Shawn as Sylvester Marcus
Phil Silvers as Otto Meyer
Terry-Thomas as Lt. Col. J. Algernon Hawthorne
Jonathan Winters as Lennie Pike


Supporting cast[edit]


Eddie "Rochester" Anderson as a cab driver
Jim Backus as airplane owner Tyler Fitzgerald
Barrie Chase as Sylvester Marcus' sexy, laconic dancing girlfriend
William Demarest as Aloysius, Chief of the Santa Rosita Police Department
Jimmy Durante as "Smiler" Grogan, the robber who buried the money.
Peter Falk as a cab driver
Paul Ford as Col. Wilberforce


Cameo appearances[edit]

Jack Benny as man driving a 1931 Cadillac Fleetwood
Paul Birch as a Santa Rosita police officer at the intersection (with binoculars)
Ben Blue as the vintage biplane pilot
Joe E. Brown as the union official giving a speech at a construction site
Alan Carney as a sergeant with the Santa Rosita Police Department
Chick Chandler as the policeman at Ray and Irwin's service station
Stanley Clements as a local reporter at police station
Lloyd Corrigan as the mayor of Santa Rosita
Howard Da Silva as police officer at airport
Andy Devine as the sheriff of Crockett County, California
Selma Diamond as Ginger Culpeper, Captain Culpeper's wife (voice only)
Minta Durfee as a crowd extra watching the fire escape rescue
Roy Engel as a Santa Rosita Police Department officer at the intersection
Norman Fell as primary detective at the "Smiler" Grogan accident site
James Flavin as a crossroads patrolman (scene deleted from general release version)
Stan Freberg as a deputy sheriff of Crockett County
Nicholas Georgiade as supporting detective at the "Smiler" Grogan accident site
Louise Glenn as Billie Sue Culpeper, the daughter of Captain Culpeper (voice only)
Leo Gorcey as the cab driver bringing Melville and Monica to the hardware store
Stacy Harris as police radio voice unit F-7 (voice only), and as a detective outside of Mr. Dinkler's hardware store
Don C. Harvey as a Santa Rosita Police Department officer
Sterling Holloway as the Santa Rosita Fire Department fireman
Edward Everett Horton as Mr. Dinkler, owner of the hardware store
Allen Jenkins as a policeman
Marvin Kaplan as service station co-owner Irwin
Robert Karnes as Sammy, a Santa Rosita Police Department officer in helicopter
Buster Keaton as Jimmy, Culpeper's boatman friend
Tom Kennedy as a Santa Rosita traffic cop
Don Knotts as the nervous motorist
Charles Lane as the airport manager
Harry Lauter as a Santa Rosita Police Department police dispatcher
Ben Lessy as George the steward
Bobo Lewis as vintage biplane pilot's wife
Jerry Lewis as the motorist who runs over Culpeper's hat
Mike Mazurki as the miner bringing medicine to his wife
Charles McGraw as Lt. Mathews of the Santa Rosita Police Department
Tyler McVey as a police radio voice (voice only)
ZaSu Pitts as Gertie, the Santa Rosita Police Department Central Division's switchboard operator
Carl Reiner as the Rancho Conejo airport tower controller
Madlyn Rhue as secretary Schwartz of the Santa Rosita Police Department
Eddie Ryder as Rancho Conejo air traffic control tower staff member
Arnold Stang as service station co-owner Ray
Nick Stewart as the migrant truck driver forced off the road
The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Joe DeRita) as Rancho Conejo Airport firemen
Sammee Tong as a laundryman
Doodles Weaver as a Dinkler Hardware Store employee
Lennie Weinrib as a police radio voice, and as a fireman (voice only)
Jesse White as a Rancho Conejo air traffic controller

Cast notes[edit]

Coould be that the slapstick humor doesn't age well. It is the personalities that make the movie. If filmed with a bunch of no names, it probably wouldn't would not have the same impact.

I like it!

It was not well received critically IIRC. I was not old enough to remember it come out, but I read reviews of it later on. When I first saw it, it was funny as hell. I didn't see it again for years. I couldn't watch it all the way through when I saw it years later. Just wasn't as funny.

The best part had to be when the Stooges showed up though.

The only thing that can compete with Dumb and Dumber for funniest movie of all time, would be early Adam Sandler...Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison, The Waterboy, Big Daddy.

MARS ATTACKS!

AK AK WE COME IN PEACE

A great movie.

There are quite a few of the classic humorous tv shows that seem really dumb today. They were funny when we were young but we've tried watching some on netflix and turned them off. I'd have to start watching Mad Mad to see how it hit me today.

You just took me there...Laughin my arse off right now.

Just when you thought A Bridge Too Far had the most star studded cast.

Deerwhacker444: YES... YOU, are the only one!
Sheesh!
Even film critics loved this movie, let alone the millions of people who paid to see it and enjoyed it!
Let alone being nominated for 6 (six!) Academy Awards.
If I recall correctly in its initial run (let alone the residuals!) this film brought in ten times what it cost to make.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

I think Dick Shawn was the funniest. The car scene that is so phony one second and absolutely terrifying the next.




I can still hear Ethel Merman- "Sylvester, Sylvesterrrrrrr"


"I'm coming. That's what I'm here for. That's why you had me, Mama, to save you."

GREATNESS

Some still hold up for me, like the old Bob Newhart show. The Honeymooners still cracks me up. Thinking of the scene where Ed was going to help pull Ralph's tooth by tying a string to it and the other end to the doorknob.

A great comedy!

Another great is "Dirty, Rotten Scoundrels."

"The Inlaws" with Peter Faulk.

"The Gods Must Be Crazy"

The Party with the pink panther David Niven

Home Alone

"Ruprecht don't take the cork off the fork "

"The Inlaws" with Peter Faulk.

"The Gods Must Be Crazy"

That would be Peter Sellers, and yes a classic!

Don't leave out The Great Race!