Month of Joy: It’s a Mad Mad Mad World by Paul Weimer
The year was 1963. Producer and Directer Stanley Kramer, producer and director of acclaimed movies like Judgement at Nuremberg, The Defiant Ones and High Noon, decided that he was going to create an epic comedy. What is an epic comedy, might you ask? Get together as many of the comedy-minded actors of the era and previous era as well, and throw them into a large-scale chase across California, all of them seeking a lost stolen fortune that is hidden underneath a “Big W”. What is a “Big W?” Therein lies the question.