Monday, July 4, 2011

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World (1963)

Starring Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Jonathan Winters, Mickey Rooney, Buddy Hackett, Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, Terry-Thomas, Phil Silvers,Dick Shawn, Edie Adams, Paul Ford, Ethel Merman, Dorothy Provine, and Jim Backus; with cameo appearances by Jerry Lewis, Don Knotts, Marvin Kaplan, Arnold Stang, Peter Falk, Jack Benny, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, William Demarest, Ben Blue, Joe E. Brown, Andy Devine, Norman Fell, Stan Freberg, Leo Gorcey, Sterling Holloway, Edward Everett Horton, Charles Lane, Cliff Norton, Carl Reiner, Roy Roberts, Madlyn Rhue, Jesse White, The Shirelles, and The Three Stooges.

Directied by Stanley Kramer.

After being released from a long prison sentence, Smiler Grogan is heading at high speed to a California park where he hid $350,000 from a job 15 years previously. He accidentally careens over a cliff in view of four cars whose occupants go down to help. The dying Grogan gives details of where the money is buried and when the witnesses fail to agree on sharing the cash, a crazy chase develops across the state to find the loot.





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