PeterCingular: It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

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(action, adventure, comedy, crime, drama)

On a hilly highway in the California desert are three cars and a truck. In one car are Russell Finch, his wife Emeline, and her obnoxious mother; in another car are Melville Crump and his wife Monica; in another are two pals, Dingman "Dingy" Bell and his obese friend Benjy Benjamin; and in the truck is delivery driver Leonard "Lennie" Pike. Suddenly the four vehicles are nearly struck by a wildly fleeing car that smashes through the guardrail and plummets down the embankment. The other vehicles stop and the men rush to help the injured driver, who turns out to be a wanted felon, "Smiler" Grogan, who is fatally injured and whose dying words to his would-be rescuers are an alert that a large case with hundreds of thousands of dollars is to be found buried beneath "a big W." A detective arrives at the scene and questions the men, who all explain that they could make no sense of what Grogan was saying. But after the detective and his partner leave, the men begin wondering if Grogan's dying words are true, and eventually a series of wild misadventures ensues as the four parties begin searching for the mysterious "big W," find it and the treasure - and find themselves facing potential arrest at the hands of area police captain G.C. Culpepper..

actors:

Spencer Tracy	as Capt. C. G. Culpepper
Milton Berle	as J. Russell Finch
Sid Caesar	as DDS Melville Crump
Buddy Hackett	as Benjy Benjamin
Ethel Merman	as Mrs. Marcus
Mickey Rooney	as Ding 'Dingy' Bell
Dick Shawn	as Sylvester Marcus
Phil Silvers	as Otto Meyer
Terry-Thomas	as Lt.Col. J. Algernon Hawthorne
Jonathan Winters	as Lennie Pike
Edie Adams	as Monica Crump
Dorothy Provine	as Emeline Marcus-Finch
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson	as Second cab driver
Jim Backus	as Tyler Fitzgerald
Ben Blue	as Biplane pilot

directors:
Stanley Kramer
rating:7.30