Excellent, Without a doubt!!

A Masterpiece!

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

This is a s-l-o-w crime drama. Not much of a mystery and it's definitely NOT a thriller nor a horror film. It's not the worst film in the world but there are much better crime-dramas from the 1930s. This one is not memorable.The Internet Archives says this film's genre is drama/horror and the movie is also found in the 50 horror film collection. This film is far away from being a horror film.Wikipedia has this film as a crime-thriller listed at the bottom of the page. Crime - yes. A thriller? - Debatable. I would argue NO this movie is not even a thriller film.I think the genre tags on IMDb are correct for this film: crime, drama, mystery. That sums the film right up.The movie is watchable but I have seen much more interesting crime-dramas from the 1930s than this particular film.2/10

In what seems like something that Warner Brothers may have filmed, viewed then sold to a poverty row studio just to get their names off of it comes this mystery with a long-winded screenplay and stereotypical characters that did its starry cast no good. When the most memorable scene is a competition over a toy train set between a D.A. father and his young son (Buster Phelps), you know you've got troubles. The D.A. is murdered for threatening to expose fraud and it is up to good guys Pat O'Brien and Neil Hamilton to uncover the killer and the mastermind behind the crime ring.J. Carroll Naish is a stereotypical Spanish villain with Louis Calhern also pretty bad here, typecast all throughout the 1930's in similar roles. He would do much better years later in lively grandfather roles where his only crime was looking too much at the pretty girls. But here, the one dimensional villains makes for a predictable and boring script, and even if the movie covers up its cheapness with an expensive looking set, it can't escape the fact that it creaks loudly in its efforts to tell its pedestrian story. O'Brien's fast-talking performance is the major highlight of the adult actors, but the majority of the film is insipid and deadly dull.

The District Attonrey has uncovered some wrong doings at a corporation and is about to blow the lid on the lot when he's whacked by a hit-man. His replacement (and friend) takes over, and much to the dismay of the bigwigs at the corporation he's determined to blow the lid on all the shenanigans too. What's an evil, greedy person to do? Well, whack the new DA too, obviously! Problem is, the new DA's friend is a reporter who seems to know everyone in the world, and he's also uncovering more and more evidence. Although billed as a horror film on Mill Creek's 50 Horror Classics box set, A World Gone Mad is more of a crime thriller (although at one point some characters walk past an ad for the film The Vampire Bat!) with a lot of twists and turns thrown in. It's not majorly exciting, but it's not boring either, with plenty of that fast talking thirties mannerism ("Are you on the level?" ) and such like. It's also strangely relevant today, and just seems to show that nothing ever changes. They even mention pyramid schemes at one point. It's no forgotten classic, but not as bad as other folks have made out.

The greed and corruption of the 2000's Wall Street could just as easily have been the subject for THE WORLD GONE MAD. To update it, you only need Bernie Madoff sitting on top of the Ponzi scheme, instead of our two antagonists.Both of whom, by the way, could make excellent stand-ins for the Duke brothers in TRADING PLACES.The acting was first rate, with solid performances all around, albeit with no "big name" stars -- at least none of whom I recognized.I found the plot compelling, first from a historical perspective (the Wall Street Crash of 1929). But, also from a contemporary perspective (the Great Recession of 2007).An interesting side note is the marquee in front of the movie theater, which featured THE VAMPIRE BAT, by the same production company. Great art deco scenes; and, good cinematography in both!