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''It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World'' is a 1963 American epic comedy film produced and directed by Stanley Kramer and starring Spencer Tracy with an all-star cast, about the madcap pursuit of $350,000 in stolen cash by a diverse and colorful group of strangers. The ensemble comedy premiered on November 7, 1963.〔''Variety'' film review; November 6, 1963, page 6.〕 The cast features Edie Adams, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas, and Jonathan Winters. The film marked the first time that Kramer had directed a comedy; though he had produced the comedy ''So This Is New York'' in 1948, he's best known for producing and directing drama films about social problems (such as ''The Defiant Ones'', ''Inherit the Wind'', and ''Guess Who's Coming to Dinner''). His first attempt at a comedy film paid off immensely, as ''It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World'' became a stunning critical and commercial success in 1963 and went on to win an Academy Award (for Best Sound Editing) and be nominated for five additional Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. Despite this, the film suffered severe cuts by its distributor, United Artists, resulting in a shorter running time for its general release. The footage was excised against Kramer's wishes. The lost footage seriously deteriorated through the decades and was once thought impossible to restore. On October 15, 2013, however, it was announced that The Criterion Collection had collaborated with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, United Artists, and film restoration expert Robert A. Harris to reconstruct and restore ''It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World'' to as close as possible to the original 197-minute version envisioned by Kramer. It was released in a 5-disc "Dual Format" Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack on January 21, 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) - The Criterion Collection )〕 ''It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World'' featured at #40 in the American Film Institute's list 100 Years...100 Laughs. ==Plot== "Smiler" Grogan (Jimmy Durante), wanted by police in a tuna factory robbery fifteen years ago and on the run from the police, careens his 1957 Ford Victoria off twisting, mountainous State Highway 74 near Palm Springs in Southern California and crashes. Five motorists stop to help him: Melville Crump (Sid Caesar), a dentist; Lennie Pike (Jonathan Winters), a furniture mover; Dingy Bell (Mickey Rooney) and Benjy Benjamin (Buddy Hackett), two friends on their way to Las Vegas; and J. Russell Finch (Milton Berle), an entrepreneur who owns Pacific Edible Seaweed Company in Fresno. Just before he dies, Grogan tells the five about $350,000 buried in Santa Rosita State Park near the Mexican border under a mysterious "big W". Initially, the motorists try to reason with each other and share the money, but it soon becomes an all out race to get the money first. Unbeknownst to them all, Captain T. G. Culpeper (Spencer Tracy), Chief of Detectives of the Santa Rosita Police Department, has been patiently working on the Smiler Grogan case for years, hoping to someday solve it and retire. When he learns of the fatal crash, he suspects that Grogan may have tipped off the passersby, so he has them tracked by various police units. His suspicions are confirmed by their behavior. Everyone experiences multiple setbacks on their way to the money. Crump and his wife Monica (Edie Adams) charter an old WWI-era biplane and eventually make it to Santa Rosita, but are soon locked in the basement of a hardware store. They eventually free themselves with dynamite. Bell and Benjamin charter a modern plane, but when their wealthy alcoholic pilot (Jim Backus) knocks himself out drunk, the two are forced to fly and land the plane themselves. Finch, his wife Emmeline (Dorothy Provine), and his loud and obnoxious mother-in-law, Mrs. Marcus (Ethel Merman), are involved in a car accident with Pike's 1954 Ford furniture van. The three flag down United Kingdom Army Officer Lt. Col. J. Algernon Hawthorne (Terry Thomas) in his 1951 Willys station wagon, and convince him to drive them to Santa Rosita. After many arguments, most caused by Mrs. Marcus, she and Emmeline refuse to go any farther, and Finch and Hawthorne leave them by the side of the road in Yucca Valley. Pike tries to get motorist Otto Meyer (Phil Silvers) in his ivory-colored 1948 Ford convertible to take him to Santa Rosita, but he is betrayed, and the greedy Meyer races for the money on his own, leaving Pike stranded with only a little girl's bike from his furniture van. A furious Pike later meets up with Meyer, determined to beat him up. Infuriated by Meyer, Pike literally destroys a gas station owned by brothers, Ray and Irwin (Arnold Stang and Marvin Kaplan), singlehandedly. Pike steals Ray and Irwin's Dodge M37 tow truck and meets up with Mrs. Marcus and Emmeline and picks them up. While in a town called Plaster City, Mrs. Marcus calls her son Sylvester (Dick Shawn), who lives on Silver Strand Beach near Santa Rosita, to get the money for them, but misunderstanding and believing his mother is in trouble, he instead races to her in his red 1962 Dodge Dart convertible. Meyer experiences his own setbacks, including sinking his car while trying to cross the Kern River and nearly drowns. He manages to steal a blue 1956 Ford Sunliner belonging to a passing motorist (Don Knotts) by telling him he's with the CIA and re-joins the hunt. All the while Culpeper and the police department observe their activities from afar. Around this time two taxi drivers (Peter Falk and Eddie "Rochester" Anderson) get in on the chase in their 1959 Plymouth Yellow Cabs. Eventually all the characters meet up at Santa Rosita State Park and search for the big W. It is Emmeline, who wants no part of the money, who first finds the W, composed of four palm trees growing in the shape of a W. Pike finds it next and informs everyone else. Culpeper orders all policemen to leave the area, and goes in solo to retrieve the money. However, he actually plans to take the money to Mexico to escape a dysfunctional family and a job with a very small pension. After everyone digs up the money, Culpeper orders them to turn themselves in, promising a jury will be more lenient. But when the group sees Culpeper leaving with the money, they follow him in the two 1959 Plymouth cabs. At that point, Chief Aloysius (William Demarest) orders Culpeper's arrest, after his blackmailing of the mayor to treble Culpeper's pension. After a long chase sequence, all of the men end up stranded on the fire escape of an abandoned office building in Long Beach. The suitcase of money opens, and the money falls into the streets below, where passers-by scoop it up. The men all try to climb down a fire truck's extension ladder, but their combined weight makes the firemen lose control of the ladder, causing the ladder to fling them into various locations, causing many injuries and landing everyone in the hospital. In the prison's hospital wing, the group, in various stages of traction, criticizes Culpeper for taking the money, but he says they will get off easy because he will have the harshest sentence. He wonders if anything will ever make him laugh again, given that his wife is divorcing him, his mother in-law is suing for damages, his daughter is getting her name legally changed, and he is losing his pension. At that moment Mrs. Marcus, flanked by Monica and Emmeline, enters, begins to scold everyone, and promptly slips on a banana peel. Everyone begins to laugh hysterically, and within seconds Culpeper himself has joined in. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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