It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
The biggest entertainment ever to rock the screen with laughter!
1963 • 192 min • Adventure · Comedy · Crime
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.
Our family guide
Best from age 8- 100 Reviewers · 3 · 53%
- 70 Audience · 700 · 47%
A dying man reveals a hidden fortune, sparking a wild, cross-country chase among a diverse group of strangers. They race against each other and the clock, leading to slapstick mishaps and chaotic encounters as they vie for the buried cash. It's a comedic adventure about greed and the lengths people go for money.
- Violence & peril
- 3/10
- Language
- 1/10
- Drinking, drugs & smoking
- 2/10
- Romance & sensuality
- 0/10
- Scary moments
- 1/10
Heads up
- Non-stop chase and competitive behavior
- Characters are driven by greed
- Some slapstick violence and pratfalls
What it models well
- The futility of greed
- Consequences of selfishness
- Teamwork can be beneficial
Talk about it after
- Why did the characters become so obsessed with the money?
- What makes something truly valuable?
- How did their actions affect others?
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Top billed cast
Director: Stanley Kramer • Crew: William Rose, Tania Rose, William Rose, Tania Rose
Trailers & clips
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Fight At The Gas Station
Smiler Grogan Kicks The Bucket
Official Trailer
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World TV Spot #1 (1963)
Smileboxed Trailer
Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World teaser
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World - Location Comparison
Reviewer notes
RecommendedMaybe not since Michael Anderson managed to put together a stellar cast for his "Around the World in Eighty Days" (1956) have we seen quite such an ensemble group of famous faces peppering a light-comedy. This time, it all starts with Jimmy Durante being thrown from his crashing car and surviving just long enough to tell the gathered crowd of a $350,000 fortune buried under the "Big W". Initially the gang decide t...
Recommended_**Epic screwball comedy-adventure with an all-star cast is overlong**_ Released in 1963, “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” is grand comedy-adventure about several motorists in the remote desert of Southern Cal learning of a buried cache of moolah in Santa Rosita State Park along the coast 200 miles south. A mad scramble to get to the money ensues. The cast is superlative with too many old-time greats to ci...
RecommendedIt's every man (and old bag) for himself. It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World is one of those films that as a child I went to the cinema to watch and then proceeded to talk about it enthusiastically in the playground for weeks afterwards. So I find myself here in my middle age with mixed feelings after just revisiting this extravaganza for the first time in many a year. It's very much a film of three parts to me, a...
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Details
- TMDB audience
- 7.0/10 (700)
- Age rating
- G
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $9,400,000
- Box office
- $60,000,000
- IMDb
- tt0057193