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

Director
Stanley Kramer

Main cast
Spencer Tracy; Milton Berle; Sid Caesar; Buddy Hackett; Mickey Rooney

Genres
Comedy, Adventure, Action, Crime

Description
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.


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