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Release Date: 1963
Cast: Mickey Rooney, Terry-Thomas, Ben Blue, Charles McGraw, Barrie Chase, Jonathan Winters, Jim Backus, Sterling Holloway, Spencer Tracy, Don Knotts, Sid Caesar, Paul Ford ...MORE
Cast: Mickey Rooney, Terry-Thomas, Ben Blue, Charles McGraw, Barrie Chase, Jonathan Winters, Jim Backus, Sterling Holloway, Spencer Tracy, Don Knotts, Sid Caesar, Paul Ford, Ethel Merman, Dick Shawn, Peter Falk, Mike Mazurki, Tom Kennedy, Eddie Anderson, Buster Keaton, Arnold Stang, Marvin Kaplan, Alan Carney, Edie Adams, Jimmy Durante, Buddy Hackett, Charles Lane, Dorothy Provine, Minta Durfee, Phil Silvers, Milton Berle, ZaSu Pitts, Moe Howard ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Ensemble Film, Action, Crime Fiction, Farce, Chase Movie, Adventure, Comedy, Family
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a 1963 American comedy film produced and directed by Stanley Kramer about the madcap pursuit of $350,000 in stolen cash by a diverse and colorful group of strangers. The ensemble comedy premiered on November 7, 1963.
"Smiler" Grogan (Jimmy Durante), suspect in a tuna factory robbery 15 years before and on the run from the police, recklessly passes a number of vehicles on a twisting, mountainous road in the Mojave Desert of Southern California before careening his car off a cliff and crashing. Five motorists from four of the passed vehicles stop to assist:... MORE
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a 1963 American comedy film produced and directed by Stanley Kramer about the madcap pursuit of $350,000 in stolen cash by a diverse and colorful group of strangers. The ensemble comedy premiered on November 7, 1963.
"Smiler" Grogan (Jimmy Durante), suspect in a tuna factory robbery 15 years before and on the run from the police, recklessly passes a number of vehicles on a twisting, mountainous road in the Mojave Desert of Southern California before careening his car off a cliff and crashing. Five motorists from four of the passed vehicles stop to assist: Melville Crump (Sid Caesar), a dentist; Lennie Pike (Jonathan Winters), a furniture mover; Dingy Bell (Mickey Rooney) and Benjy Benjamin (Buddy Hackett), two friends on their way to Las Vegas; and J. Russell Finch (Milton Berle), an entrepreneur. Just before he kicks the bucket (his foot literally hits a bucket as he dies), Grogan tells the good Samaritans about $350,000 buried in Santa Rosita State Park near the Mexican border, under a "Big W". Initially, the motorists try to reason with one another on how to share the money, but when they can't agree on any one particular distribution, it soon LESS
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