Film

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

1963 · 3h 12m · Adventure · Comedy · Crime

The biggest entertainment ever to rock the screen with laughter!

IMDb

7.5

Rotten Tomatoes

71%

Metacritic

59

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.

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

• Stanley KramerProducer · Director
• William RoseScreenplay · Story
• Tania RoseScreenplay · Story
• Ernest LaszloDirector of Photography
• Ernest GoldOriginal Music Composer
• Frederic KnudtsonEditor
• Gene Fowler Jr.Editor
• Robert C. JonesEditor

Official TrailerIt's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World TV Spot #1 (1963)Smileboxed TrailerIts a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World teaser

Release date

November 7, 1963

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

3h 12m

Rated

G

Budget

$9,400,000

Revenue

$60,000,000

Genres

Adventure, Comedy, Crime

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