Like all-star games or concerts with impressive guest artists, director Stanley Kramer’s 1963 comedy “It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” appeals to film fans by boasting appearances by the best comic actors of its time.

             Downtown Peoria’s Apollo Theater is showing the classic at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 22.

            With a thin plot about stolen money and an increasing group of people desperately seeking it, the elaborate, 155-minute chase movie stars – in alphabetical order – Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Joe E. Brown, Sid Caesar, Jimmy Durante, Stan Freberg, Leo Gorcey (of the Bowery Boys), Buddy Hackett, Buster Keaton, Don Knotts, Jerry Lewis, Ethel Merman, Carl Reiner, Mickey Rooney, Dick Shawn, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas, the Three Stooges, and Jonathan Winter.

            Leading the epic is one of the few non-comics in the cast: Spencer Tracy, as a police officer, seeming suitably befuddled — and smart.

            The zany, non-stop romp won an Academy Award for sound effects editing and was nominated for five other Oscars.

             The suggested donation at the Apollo is $5 and $4 for kids, students and seniors. For details call (309) 673-4343.