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

"Smiler" Grogan, a just-released convict jailed for robbery 15 years earlier, escapes police surveillance but crashes his car on California State Route 74. Five motorists stop to help him: Melville Crump, a dentist on a second honeymoon with his wife Monica; Lennie Pike, a furniture mover; Ding Bell and Benjy Benjamin, two friends on their way to Las Vegas; and J. Russell Finch, a seaweed-business owner, traveling with his wife Emmeline and his loud, obnoxious mother-in-law Mrs. Marcus. Just before he dies, Grogan tells them about $350,000 (equivalent to $3.1 million in 2021) buried in Santa Rosita State Park under "a big W". After the group fails to come up with a satisfactory way to split the money, they give up negotiating and begin a mad dash to find it. Unbeknownst to all, Captain Culpeper, chief of detectives of the Santa Rosita Police Department, who had been working the Grogan case for years and hoped to solve it and retire, has everyone tracked.

MPAA Rating:	NR
Genre:	Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country:	United States
Produced By:	Stanley Kramer
Directed By:	Stanley Kramer
Written By:	Tania Rose, William Rose
Cast:	James Flavin, Robert Karnes, Al Bain, Louise Glenn, Don C. Harvey, Lloyd Corrigan, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Max Wagner, Eddie Ryder, Marvin Kaplan, Charles Sherlock, William Demarest, Roy Engel, Milton Berle, Cliff Norton, Paul Birch, Ethel Merman, Zasu Pitts, George Russell, Stanley Clements, Madlyn Rhue, Andy Devine, Alan Carney, Mickey Rooney, Bobby Gilbert, Norman Fell, Allen Jenkins, Edward Everett Horton, Don Knotts, Minta Durfee, Al Haskell, Selma Diamond, Sammee Tong, Ray Spiker, Barbara Pepper, Eddie Smith, Joe E. Brown, Ben Blue, Carl Reiner, Larry Fine, Terry-Thomas, Tom Kennedy, Peter Falk, Buster Keaton, Barrie Chase, Charles Lane, King Donovan, Jim Backus, Jesse White, Wayne Anderson, Leo Gorcey, Harry Lauter, Chick Chandler, Cap Somers, Tyler McVey, Nicholas Georgiade, Edie Adams, Dick Shawn, Ben Lessy, Stacy Harris, Albert Cavens, Jonathan Winters, Phil Arnold, Phil Silvers, Buddy Hackett, Doodles Weaver, The Three Stooges, Dorothy Provine, Moe Howard, Joe DeRita, Mike Mazurki, Charles McGraw, Gordon Armitage, Sig Frohlich, Jack Benny, Roy Roberts, Spencer Tracy, George Bruggeman, Morey Amsterdam, John Indrisano, Sterling Holloway, Sid Caesar, Ralph Moratz, Noble 'Kid' Chissell, Stan Freberg, Rudy Germane, Lennie Weinrib, Jerry Lewis, Paul Sorensen, Arnold Stang, Nick Stewart, Elliott Reid, John Clarke, Bobo Lewis, Jimmy Durante, Paul Ford, Monty O'Grady
In Theaters:	Dec 02, 1963
Runtime:	3 hours 25 minutes
Production:	Casey Productions
Budget:	$9,400,000
Box Office:	$46,332,858
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