Comments on: It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Locations https://cinemassacre.com/2008/09/20/the-holy-grail-of-movie-locations/ Tue, 31 Oct 2017 06:52:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 By: It’s a shameless, talent-less, cheater-cheap, cut and paste, tribute to my favorite blog platform – WordPress. | Once Upon a Word https://cinemassacre.com/2008/09/20/the-holy-grail-of-movie-locations/#comment-215533 Tue, 31 Oct 2017 06:52:13 +0000 http://test.cinemassacre.com/?p=4281#comment-215533 […] Winters is priceless in the movie.  A perfect line at a perfect spot in the […]

]]> By: Andrew W. Esposito https://cinemassacre.com/2008/09/20/the-holy-grail-of-movie-locations/#comment-208231 Sun, 22 Jan 2017 15:03:48 +0000 http://test.cinemassacre.com/?p=4281#comment-208231 Fantastic i love research like this. found everything on google earth!

]]> By: Mango Chutney https://cinemassacre.com/2008/09/20/the-holy-grail-of-movie-locations/#comment-199049 Tue, 10 May 2016 17:52:23 +0000 http://test.cinemassacre.com/?p=4281#comment-199049 I loved the show and had to make a special effort to get to town from our farm in rural Iowa at age 12 to see it, either 1963 or ’64.

I bought the DVD a year or so ago. I’m in the San Diego area now and was thinking I could at least look up the Big W site, but I guess not. Thanks for the tour, though.

]]> By: Weird LA: The Stuff We Missed | Blue Collar, Black Tie https://cinemassacre.com/2008/09/20/the-holy-grail-of-movie-locations/#comment-158718 Mon, 16 Jun 2014 14:04:39 +0000 http://test.cinemassacre.com/?p=4281#comment-158718 […] a very upscale neighborhood with two interesting sites, neither of which you can see. First is the Big W, which you may remember as the location of the buried treasure in It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad […]

]]> By: dhansen https://cinemassacre.com/2008/09/20/the-holy-grail-of-movie-locations/#comment-148523 Wed, 18 Dec 2013 17:13:43 +0000 http://test.cinemassacre.com/?p=4281#comment-148523 Wow…. there really IS someone out there with similar memories of this movie. I saw this movie at age 8 and for many, many years it was my “lost movie”. At the time it was released I was taken to see it by my father and of course I laughed all the way through it. Then after that (remember, no internet, no quick access to find these things out), I spent years trying to remember what movie that was and no one could help me! I kept thinking for some reason it was called, “The Big W”. too funny. I was in my late teens before I finally realized what movie that was. Oh, what a sense of closure. I finally knew. Of course today, I have my own DVD copy and my grandkids are enjoying it now. Great movie.

]]> By: Andrian https://cinemassacre.com/2008/09/20/the-holy-grail-of-movie-locations/#comment-100378 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 06:34:30 +0000 http://test.cinemassacre.com/?p=4281#comment-100378 I saw this movie on July 4, 1964 in Asbury Park, NJ (think Bruce Springsteen). I was a language major at Montclair State University (NJ) and was working at the Jersey Shore that summer. I loved the movie so much that the next day I took about ten friends and family members to see it with me. It was the first time I had ever seen the wholesale smashing up of cars. I have shown this DVD to my daughter and other young people of today and although they find it funny, they cannot relate to it the way the folks of my generation did. This is because, aside from the funny plot, the actors were all famous and instantly recognizable to us. We had grown up with Milton Berle, Jack Benny, Sid Caesar. Jonathan Winters had been a regular on the Jack Paar Show; Arnold Stang was famous for his Chunky commercials. Even some of the lesser known characters were familiar. In one scene, an African-American couple are driving up the mountain in a rickety old truck loaded with the meager belongings. Almost everyone in the theater shouted “Lighting,” recognizing the character actor from the old Amos ‘n Andy TV show, and waited in anticipation of what his fate would be. We weren’t disappointed, as we watched his truck get run off the road and barrel down the mountaiside with all their belongings flying off into space; then, his only line: “I told you I didn’t want to move to California!” I have watched this movie at least 30 times and never tire of it. It recaptures that time period of my life when I was coming into young manhood, when there was more decency in humor and America felt lke a safe, happy place to live.

]]> By: mjada516 https://cinemassacre.com/2008/09/20/the-holy-grail-of-movie-locations/#comment-83853 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:07:19 +0000 http://test.cinemassacre.com/?p=4281#comment-83853 HELP !!!! I’m a huge fan of the film and I have been trying to find the staircase that Spencer Tracy climbs before entering the empty building? Where they tell the women to wait while the gang enters?? Some say its in an alley on 2nd street and some say near Long Beach Blvd and Broadway??? Can you help me locate this stair case aka needle in the hay stack.

]]> By: joanporteous https://cinemassacre.com/2008/09/20/the-holy-grail-of-movie-locations/#comment-81213 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:39:15 +0000 http://test.cinemassacre.com/?p=4281#comment-81213 In reply to Phaedrus.

Fabulous. I have the dvd. I have seen it at the theater and at the drive-in and a couple of times on TV. It is one of the funniest movies of all time,

]]> By: captainhowdy1973 https://cinemassacre.com/2008/09/20/the-holy-grail-of-movie-locations/#comment-42710 Fri, 29 Apr 2011 03:02:18 +0000 http://test.cinemassacre.com/?p=4281#comment-42710 I live in Las Vegas, and once I was visiting the Palm Casino, and there was a “Big W” palm tree in the parking lot. It was awesome!

]]> By: Danny Spark https://cinemassacre.com/2008/09/20/the-holy-grail-of-movie-locations/#comment-35293 Sun, 06 Mar 2011 10:06:18 +0000 http://test.cinemassacre.com/?p=4281#comment-35293 Love the movie!

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