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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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Comic, epic, plot-driven and relentless.
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
- warmbleak
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Cast
- Spencer TracyC. G. Culpepper
- Milton BerleJ. Russell Finch
- Sid CaesarMelville Crump
- Buddy HackettBenjy Benjamin
- Ethel MermanMrs. Marcus
- Mickey RooneyDing 'Dingy' Bell
- Dick ShawnSylvester Marcus
- Phil SilversOtto Meyer
- Terry-ThomasJ. Algernon Hawthorne
- Jonathan WintersLennie Pike
Crew
- Stanley KramerDirector
- William RoseScreenplay
- Tania RoseScreenplay
- Ernest LaszloDirector of Photography
- Ernest GoldOriginal Music Composer
- Gene Fowler Jr.Editor
- Robert C. JonesEditor
- Frederic KnudtsonEditor
- Stanley KramerProducer
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