More info will be here soon (maybe a couple of weeks) on the various/sundry running times of one of our fave films, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. One of the things you may learn from that info is that there's not nearly as much "lost footage" as some folks think. It's true that the movie was trimmed after its initial release. It's not true that there are hours and hours of what Mad (the magazine) used to call "Scenes We'd Like to See."
Another fine historian of the movie is my pal Paul Scrabo. Now, let's see if I can type the following with a straight face. He (ahem) recently found an important "lost" sequence — the (cough) legendary fantasy scenes with Mickey Rooney and Buddy Hackett…
