It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a 1963 American comedy film 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.
Four vehicles are passed by a speeding black sedan on a lonely highway in Southern California. The car, driven by "Smiler" Grogan (Jimmy Durante in his last screen appearance), careens off the twisting, mountain...
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a 1963 American comedy film 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.
Four vehicles are passed by a speeding black sedan on a lonely highway in Southern California. The car, driven by "Smiler" Grogan (Jimmy Durante in his last screen appearance), careens off the twisting, mountainous road over a cliff. It turns out that Smiler was the chief suspect in a long-ago tuna factory robbery and had been evading police detectives when he crashed.
With his dying breath, Grogan tells Dingy Bell (Mickey Rooney), his friend Benjy Benjamin (Buddy Hackett), furniture mover Lennie Pike (Jonathan Winters), dentist Melville Crump (Sid Caesar), and edible seaweed company owner J. Russell Finch (Milton Berle) about "three hundred and fifty G's" ($350,000) hidden in the state park in the fictitious city of Santa Rosita, less than a day's...
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