It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
“The biggest entertainment ever to rock the screen with laughter!”
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
77 people
Spencer Tracy
C. G. Culpepper
Known for
Judgment at Nuremberg
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Milton Berle
J. Russell Finch
Known for
The Muppet Movie
Sid Caesar
Melville Crump
Known for
Grease
Silent Movie
Buddy Hackett
Benjy Benjamin
Known for
The Little Mermaid
The Love Bug
Ethel Merman
Mrs. Marcus
Known for
There's No Business Like Show Business
Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July
Mickey Rooney
Ding 'Dingy' Bell
Known for
The Fox and the Hound
Night at the Museum
Dick Shawn
Sylvester Marcus
Known for
The Producers
The Year Without a Santa Claus
Phil Silvers
Otto Meyer
Known for
Follow That Camel
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Terry-Thomas
J. Algernon Hawthorne
Known for
Robin Hood
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
Jonathan Winters
Lennie Pike
Known for
The Smurfs
The Flintstones
Edie Adams
Monica Crump
Known for
Up in Smoke
The Apartment
Dorothy Provine
Emeline Marcus-Finch
Known for
That Darn Cat!
The Great Race
Stanley Kramer Director · William Rose Screenplay Tania Rose Screenplay
Worldwide gross $60M · Budget $9.4M · United States release November 7, 1963
Box office
Budget
$9,400,000
Worldwide gross
$60,000,000
Gross vs. budget
6.4×
Production
United Artists
Production
Casey Productions
Production
United Artists Pictures
Studio · Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
Canada · November 7, 1963
Theatrical
United States · November 7, 1963
Theatrical
United States · January 21, 2014
Physical · Criterion Blu-ray
Australia
December 3, 1964 · Theatrical
Austria
December 19, 1963 · Theatrical
Brazil
January 1, 1965 · Theatrical
France
January 8, 1964 · Theatrical
Germany
December 19, 1963 · Theatrical
Hong Kong SAR China
January 23, 1964 · Theatrical
Hungary
January 1, 1978 · Theatrical
Ireland
May 28, 1965 · Theatrical
Japan
December 28, 1963 · Theatrical
Mexico
March 3, 1966 · Theatrical
Netherlands
January 1, 2005 · Physical · DVD
Portugal
May 10, 1965 · Theatrical
Romania
February 19, 1968 · Theatrical · la cinema „Patria” și „București” din București
Russia
January 24, 1966 · Theatrical
Russia
February 26, 2003 · Physical
Sweden
November 7, 1963 · Theatrical
United Kingdom
December 2, 1963 · Theatrical
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