It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: 1963 comedy, Sid Caesar, Milton Berle, Jonathan Winters, Buddy Hackett, Phil Silvers, et al.
Marc Horton Plot Synopsis: A bunch of borscht-belt comedians and faded movie stars go in search of buried treasure. Mad-cap hijinks ensue. Ethel Merman shrieks a lot. Celebrities make cameos. Spencer Tracy loses his last shred of dignity after a distinguished career in the picture shows. Buster Keaton rolls over in his grave - and he wasn't even dead yet.
Politically Incorrect Movie Review: It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad Movie.
8 years ago
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Three minutes of that clip is about as much as I can stand. The Cannonball Run movies were about as equally dreadful, but they at least had some jiggle that kept the 13-year-olds interested. Then there's Rat Race, which is one of the worst movies ever made. It had THREE Oscar winners (albeit one is Cuba Gooding), an SNL alumnus, a Monty Python alumnus, an SCTV alumnus AND Mr. Bean and still somehow managed to be not funny.
That's an excellent inadvertent quiz, because there's Dave Thomas as the Beavesr, John Cleese, Jon Lovitz and Rowan Atkinson but out of that cast of millions I can't imagine any one of them winning an Oscar.
I'm going to have to guess Whoopi was one of them. Was she in Color Purple or some "message" film. Must have been. Cause she can't act.
But I'm stumped. Who's the third Oscar winner?
Kathy Bates
Whoopi won for Ghost, if I'm not mistaken. Color Purple received a very public snubbing from the Academy.
Ghost!? Ooh, Patrick Swayze is rolling over in his grave. Wait, strike that.
"I-I-I-v-e, h-a-ad, the time ah mah li-i-i-i-fe."
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