Directed by Stanley Kramer
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, MGM/Fox)
Stanley Kramer's epic slapstick comedy is basically one long chase. A dying man reveals the location of buried cash to a group of strangers on a remote California highway. They can't agree how to divide it equally, so it's winner take all for whoever gets there first. Jonathan Winters stands out in a cast of comedy greats, as an angry truck driver who is taken by Phil Silvers and vows to get revenge. Mickey Rooney and Buddy Hackett end up in an out of control airplane, Sid Caesar and Edie Adams get trapped in a hardware store basement, Milton Berle and Terry-Thomas bicker about his mother-in-law or their nationalities, etc. Dick Shawn is hilarious as a way out California beach bum. It all ends under the big W. This was fun as a kid, but a bit overlong and tedious now, though it does have some great stunts.
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