Genre: Comedy
Released: 1963
© 1963 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.
About the Movie
With this all-star Cinerama epic, producer/director Stanley Kramer vowed to make "the comedy that would end all comedies." The story begins during a massive traffic jam, caused by reckless driver Smiler Grogan (Jimmy Durante), who, before (literally) kicking the bucket, cryptically tells the assembled drivers that he's buried a fortune in stolen loot, "under the Big W." The various motorists setting out on a mad scramble include a dentist (Sid Caesar) and his wife (Edie Adams); a henpecked husband (Milton Berle) accompanied by his mother-in-law (Ethel Merman) and his beatnik brother-in-law (Dick Shawn); a pair of comedy writers (Buddy Hackett and Mickey Rooney); and a variety of assorted nuts including a slow-wit (Jonathan Winters), a wheeler-dealer (Phil Silvers), and a pair of covetous cabdrivers (Peter Falk and Eddie "Rochester" Anderson). Monitoring every move that the fortune hunters make is a scrupulously honest police detective (Spencer Tracy). Virtually every lead, supporting, and bit part in the picture is filled by a well-known comic actor: the laughspinning lineup also includes Carl Reiner, Terry-Thomas, Arnold Stang, Buster Keaton, Jack Benny, Jerry Lewis, and The Three Stooges, who get one of the picture's biggest laughs by standing stock still and uttering not a word. Two prominent comedians are conspicuous by their absence: Groucho Marx refused to appear when Kramer couldn't meet his price, while Stan Laurel declined because he felt he was too old-looking to be funny. Available for years in its 154-minute general release version, the film was restored to its roadshow length of 175 minutes on home video; the search goes on for a missing Buster Keaton routine, reportedly excised on the eve of the picture's premiere.
导演: 斯坦利·克雷默
编剧: Tania Rose / 威廉·罗斯
主演: 斯宾塞·屈塞 / 米尔顿·伯利 / 米基·鲁尼
类型: 喜剧 / 犯罪 / 冒险
制片国家/地区: 美国
语言: 英语
上映日期: 1964-01-23
剧情简介
　　斯坦利．克雷默执导，联美公司制作的本片，讲述的是一个反映人性阴暗面的生活剧。史马尔考文超车坠崖身亡，在临死前透露在圣塔罗西公园埋着一大笔钱。知道这个消息的有八个人，各种不同的身份、不同的背景、不同的职业，为了独得这份意外之财，分别展开了可笑、惊险、疯狂的争夺。谁知他们所争夺的是15前被抢劫的赃款，他们所作的一切都在警方的掌握之中。宝藏终于被挖出，克劳派队长因为退休在即，而退休金又少得可怜，所以便假公济私，夺款潜逃，但最终被警方抓获，使发财梦想成为泡影。本片以嬉笑怒骂的方式，将人性的丑陋形态一表无遗，将人物角色刻划得入木三分，虽闻笑声，但却可见编导的良苦用心。
第36届奥斯卡金像奖  (1964)
彩色片最佳摄影(提名) Ernest Laszlo
最佳剪辑(提名) Frederic Knudtson / 小吉恩·福勒 / Robert C. Jones
最佳音响(提名) Gordon Sawyer
最佳音效 Walter Elliott
最佳配乐(提名) Ernest Gold
最佳原创歌曲(提名) Ernest Gold / Mack David
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