It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Synopsis

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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Cast

Spencer Tracy

C. G. Culpepper

Milton Berle

J. Russell Finch

Sid Caesar

Melville Crump

Buddy Hackett

Benjy Benjamin

Ethel Merman

Mrs. Marcus

Mickey Rooney

Ding 'Dingy' Bell

Dick Shawn

Sylvester Marcus

Phil Silvers

Otto Meyer

Terry-Thomas

J. Algernon Hawthorne

Jonathan Winters

Lennie Pike

Edie Adams

Monica Crump

Dorothy Provine

Emeline Marcus-Finch

Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson

Second Cab Driver

Jim Backus

Tyler Fitzgerald

Ben Blue

Biplane Pilot

Joe E. Brown

Union Official

Alan Carney

Police Sergeant

Chick Chandler

Detective Outside Chinese Laundromat

Barrie Chase

Sylvester's Girlfriend

Lloyd Corrigan

The Mayor

Crew

Art

• Rudolph Sternad Production Design
• Gordon Gurnee Art Direction
• Joseph Kish Set Decoration
• Art Cole Property Master
• Saul Bass Title Designer
• Tony White Title Designer

Camera

• Ernest Laszlo Director of Photography
• Charles F. Wheeler Camera Operator
• Dick Johnson Assistant Camera
• Morris Rosen Grip
• Martin Kashuk Assistant Grip
• Irman Roberts Additional Photography
• Hal McAlpin Additional Photography

Costume & Make-Up

• Bill Thomas Costume Design
• George Lane Makeup Artist
• Lynn F. Reynolds Makeup Artist
• Bud Westmore Makeup Artist
• Joe King Costume Supervisor
• Connie Nichols Hairdresser

Crew

• Paul Baxley Stunts
• Tap Canutt Stunts
• Max Balchowsky Stunts
• Richard E. Butler Stunts
• Bill Couch Stunt Double
• Dick Crockett Stunts
• May Boss Stunt Double
• Carol Daniels Stunts
• George DeNormand Stunts
• Gary Epper Stunts
• Dick Geary Stunts
• Stephanie Epper Stunts

Directing

• Stanley Kramer Director
• Ivan Volkman Other
• Bert Chervin Assistant Director
• George R. Batcheller Jr. Assistant Director
• Charles Scott Assistant Director
• Marshall Schlom Script Supervisor

Editing

• Gene Fowler Jr. Editor
• Robert C. Jones Editor
• Frederic Knudtson Editor

Lighting

• Joseph Edesa Gaffer

Production

• Stanley Kramer Producer
• Anne P. Kramer Producer's Assistant
• Clem Beauchamp Production Manager
• Bud Pine Production Coordinator

Sound

• Ernest Gold Original Music Composer
• John K. Kean Sound Engineer
• Walter Elliott Sound Editor
• Art Dunham Music Editor
• Clem Portman Sound Re-Recording Mixer
• Roy Granville Sound Re-Recording Mixer
• Vinton Vernon Sound Re-Recording Mixer
• Ernest Gold Songs
• Mack David Songs

Visual Effects

• Farciot Edouart Visual Effects
• Linwood G. Dunn Visual Effects
• James Gordon Visual Effects

Writing

• William Rose Screenplay
• Tania Rose Screenplay
• William Rose Story
• Tania Rose Story

Photos