

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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726 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $9.4M
- Box office
- $60M
- Language
- English
- prison
- california
- airplane
- chase
- competition
- treasure hunt
- national park
- slapstick comedy
- caper
- money
- desert
- race
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United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalG7 Nov 1963
- PhysicalGCriterion Blu-ray21 Jan 2014
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalU2 Dec 1963
AustraliaAU
- Theatrical3 Dec 1964
CanadaCA
- Theatrical14A7 Nov 1963
AustriaAT
- Theatrical19 Dec 1963
BrazilBR
- TheatricalL1 Jan 1965
FranceFR
- Theatrical8 Jan 1964
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1219 Dec 1963
Hong KongHK
- Theatrical23 Jan 1964
HungaryHU
- TheatricalKN1 Jan 1978
IrelandIE
- TheatricalG28 May 1965
JapanJP
- Theatrical28 Dec 1963
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World was released on 7 November 1963.
Audience reviews
3- J6/10
John Chard
8/6/2019
It'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, and …
- W6/10
Wuchak
7/6/2020
_**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 cite.…
- C6/10
CinemaSerf
1/14/2025
Maybe 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 to w…
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