It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Nov 7, 1963

3h 12m

★ 7.0

The biggest entertainment ever to rock the screen with laughter!

Overview

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.

Genres

Action

Adventure

Comedy

Crime

Production Companies

United Artists

Casey Productions

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Trailers

Cast

C. G. Culpepper

Spencer Tracy

J. Russell Finch

Milton Berle

Melville Crump

Sid Caesar

Benjy Benjamin

Buddy Hackett

Mrs. Marcus

Ethel Merman

Ding 'Dingy' Bell

Mickey Rooney

Sylvester Marcus

Dick Shawn

Otto Meyer

Phil Silvers

J. Algernon Hawthorne

Terry-Thomas

Lennie Pike

Jonathan Winters

Monica Crump

Edie Adams

Emeline Marcus-Finch

Dorothy Provine

Two lost souls: she a con-artist in L.A.; he a puppeteer in San Antonio have the same dream linking each with the other. He travels to L.A. to find this woman he has become obsessed with. She resists, afraid of his kooky ideas until she travels with him to San Antonio and meets his wise grandmother. Story of two disparate people linked by "fate" gets increasingly interesting as it rolls along.

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