3 Movies Starring Sid Caesar

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1963-12-02

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

205 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (27207 Reviews)

Director:

Stanley Kramer

Cast:

Writer:

William Rose (story)

Tania Rose (story)

Fullplot:

After a long prison sentence Smiler Grogan is heading at high speed to a California park where he hid $350,000 from a job 15 years previously. He accidentally careens over a cliff in view of four cars whose occupants go down to help. The dying Grogan gives details of where the money is buried and when the witnesses fail to agree on sharing the cash, a crazy chase develops across the state.

Silent Movie

Silent Movie

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1976-06-16

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

87 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (11757 Reviews)

Director:

Mel Brooks

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Mel Brooks (screenplay)

Ron Clark (screenplay)

Rudy De Luca (screenplay)

Barry Levinson (screenplay)

Ron Clark (story)

Fullplot:

Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell go to a financially troubled studio with an idea for a silent movie. In an effort to make the movie more marketable, they attempt to recruit a number of big name stars to appear, while the studio's creditors attempt to thwart them. The film contains only one word of dialogue, spoken by an unlikely source.

The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu

The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1980-08-08

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, UK

Runtime:

100 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

4.9 (1533 Reviews)

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Rudy Dochtermann (screenplay)

Jim Moloney (screenplay)

Sax Rohmer (novel)

Fullplot:

Fu Manchu's 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu's age-regressing elixir vitae. Fu sends his lackeys to round up ingredients for a new batch of elixir, starting with the Star of Leningrad diamond, nabbed from a Soviet exhibition in Washington. The FBI sends agents Capone and Williams to England to confer with Nayland Smith, an expert on Fu. Nayland suspects Fu will kidnap the king and queen and demand the George V diamond as ransom. Scotland Yard recruits Alice Rage to stand-in for the queen. Fu nabs the "fake" queen; Rage becomes enamored of Fu and aids him in his quest for the George V diamond.

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