It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World - Then and Now

I like silly movies, and one of my favorites is the ultra-silly and wild Stanley Kramer flick "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World."  You may remember the show.  Smiler Grogan, played by Jimmy Durante, crashes his car down a hill and is tossed from his car.  Before he dies, Smiler tells 5 men, played by Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Jonathan Winters, Milton Berle, and Mickey Rooney, that he's hidden "350 G's" under a "big dubbya" in Santa Rosita State park.  A wild chase ensues for the next 2.5 hours as the 5 men and several others make a dash for the cash.

If you've ever wondered about the film locations then and now, Mark Furqueron has a nice site showing you all you've ever wanted to know about the road locations of the film.  Here's a San Diego Union Tribune story on the Seven Level Hill area where the opening scenes took place.  Here's information on the airport scene.

Here's Seven Level Hill at night.

Comments

[KipEsquire]

Did you see the way this post just went sailing out there? ;-)

[Phil Miller]

It just went sailing right out there.

/slaps and brushes hands against one another

[liebe]

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