It's A Mad Mad Mad World

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.

Before literally kicking the bucket when his car careens off an embankment, "Smiler" Grogan (Jimmy Durante) tells onlookers he's stashed $350,000 in stolen loot beneath the big "W" in the town of Santa Rosita -- and thus begins a mad dash to recover said dough. But unbeknownst to the greedy motorists, police Capt. T.G. Culpepper (Spencer Tracy) -- who's been awaiting a break in the Grogan case for 20 years -- is stalking their every move.