It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
(1963)
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.
Director
Stanley Kramer
Writers
William Rose, Tania Rose, William Rose, Tania Rose
Top Billed
Spencer Tracy
Keywords
Top Billed Cast
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Reviews
John Chard
⭐ 6/10August 6, 2019
It's every man (and old bag) for himself.
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World is one of those films that as a child I went to the cinema to watch and then proceeded to talk about it enthusiastically in the playground for weeks afterwards. So I find myself here in my middle age with mixed feelings after just revisiting this extravaganza for the first time in many a year.
It's very much a film of three parts to me, and each part impacts differently …
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Wuchak
⭐ 6/10July 6, 2020
_**Epic screwball comedy-adventure with an all-star cast is overlong**_
Released in 1963, “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” is grand comedy-adventure about several motorists in the remote desert of Southern Cal learning of a buried cache of moolah in Santa Rosita State Park along the coast 200 miles south. A mad scramble to get to the money ensues.
The cast is superlative with too many old-time greats to cite. The opening is compelling, th…
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CinemaSerf
⭐ 6/10January 14, 2025
Maybe not since Michael Anderson managed to put together a stellar cast for his "Around the World in Eighty Days" (1956) have we seen quite such an ensemble group of famous faces peppering a light-comedy. This time, it all starts with Jimmy Durante being thrown from his crashing car and surviving just long enough to tell the gathered crowd of a $350,000 fortune buried under the "Big W". Initially the gang decide to work together to find and share… read the rest.
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Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$9,400,000
Revenue
$60,000,000