It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World Overture, Intermission, Entr'acte, and Exit Music

[ClassicTV4U]

TOG2001...there's a deluxe edition of this film that has the overture and the multi-colored beginning...MGM needs to just go ahead and release the film in it's original theatrical form!! I've read that many of the prints don't exist, so we may never get to see it...

[videogamehunter820]

While Rat Race was okay, I think that this movie far superior IMO

[maxpowers518]

A Japenese named Luey

Says that Chinese, hate chop suey!

[NelsonStJames]

Side note, Buddy Hackett's son is one of the producers of the broadway play Jersey Boys. I made a point of telling him how much happiness his father had brought me. (a great deal of that happiness was from this movie here)

[ExplorerDS6789]

One of the greatest motion pictures EVER made! Combining all that comedic genius into one forum was a difficult feat, but they pulled it off. Old school performers like Spencer Tracy, Jimmy Durante, Jack Benny, the Three freakin' Stooges and Jerry Lewis to name a few and new school performers like Jonathan Winters, Buddy Hackett, Dick Shawn and Phil Silvers to name a few. A masterpiece!

[NelsonStJames]

@ExplorerDS6789 I agree completely. The only movie in modern times that even came close to that kind of fun insanity was Steven Spielberg's 1942 (and people consider that a flop).

[Hyman74Roth]

@NelsonStJames Its 1941, but I think The Cannonball Run and Rat Race are close to the maniac style of this movie especially Rat Race.

[rossman1rb]

A prime example of a tune that is IMPOSSIBLE to get out of your head for days after hearing it.

Brings back wonderful memories of my youth spent in what was then mostly barren desert with lots of places to play. I was born in Palm Springs and traveled Hwy. 74 numerous times. Vista point was the big "Make-out" spot up there- it had an unbelievable view of the desert.

[Gunfighter1b]

My dear old uncle Herman

Says that French Toast should be German.

And before World War 1, it actually was called German Toast!!

[Hyman74Roth]

Honestly this and The Great Race is the only comedies I know to have an Overture, Intermission, Entr'acte, and Exit Music.

[OldsVistaCruiser]

Step into the lobby...

For whatever is your hobby...

A drink, a smoke, or repeat some joke...

From A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World!

Try stepping into the lobby for a smoke today! Great movie - my second-favorite of all time after "Cold Turkey".

[OldsVistaCruiser]

Our traffic is so congested...

Ask a nation on wheels...

But Detroit is adroit...

What they'll do in Detroit is make bigger automobiles!

So true - cars got even bigger until the mid-1970s, and a gas crisis or two, they downsized and then started getting bigger again, and now the Ford Expedition is even larger than a '76 Cadillac Fleetwood, the biggest pre-gas crisis gas hog available!

[OldsVistaCruiser]

My beloved '69 Vista Cruiser (just like Eric Forman's car in "That '70s Show") is bigger than most non-SUV cars today. However, it was considered a mid-size car in the late 1960s!

Olds didn't make a full-size wagon from 1964-70 (the Vista was their mid-size entry with a 5" longer wheelbase than the plain Cutlass wagon, and it competed with full-size wagons).

The '71-'76 Olds Custom Cruisers and their "clamshell" sisters were among the biggest cars ever made other than Cadillacs and SUV's.

[ExplorerDS6789]

Beautiful music. Beautiful movie.

[SuperSpaceGirlTV]

do you have the original verison of the overture?