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.
C. G. Culpepper
J. Russell Finch
Melville Crump
Benjy Benjamin
Mrs. Marcus
Ding 'Dingy' Bell
Sylvester Marcus
Otto Meyer
J. Algernon Hawthorne
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 work together to find and share the loot, but they can't agree on a formula to distribute it and so quickly it's every man (or dame) for themselves. How to get there? Well there are...
Status Released
Original LanguageEnglish
Budget$9,400,000.00
Revenue $60,000,000.00