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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
1963 · Directed by Stanley Kramer · 192 min · Adventure · Comedy · Crime · 16 frames
Tagline
The biggest entertainment ever to rock the screen with laughter!
Crew
- Screenplay: William Rose, Tania Rose
- Cinematography: Ernest Laszlo
- Edited by: Frederic Knudtson, Gene Fowler Jr., Robert C. Jones
- Music: Ernest Gold
- Production design: Rudolph Sternad
- Produced by: Stanley Kramer
Cast
- Spencer Tracy as C. G. Culpepper
- Milton Berle as J. Russell Finch
- Sid Caesar as Melville Crump
- Buddy Hackett as Benjy Benjamin
- Ethel Merman as Mrs. Marcus
- Mickey Rooney as Ding 'Dingy' Bell
- Dick Shawn as Sylvester Marcus
- Phil Silvers as Otto Meyer
- Terry-Thomas as J. Algernon Hawthorne
- Jonathan Winters as Lennie Pike
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: United Artists, Casey Productions
- Budget: $9,400,000
- Box office: $60,000,000
- Themes: prison, california, airplane, chase, competition, treasure hunt, national park, slapstick comedy, caper, money
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