Considering that it's written by William Rose, of The Ladykillers and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?, it isn't that funny, though film does revel in destruction. I think without a few sherberts in you it would be hard going. And what's wrong with 'It's a Mad World'?
Spencer Tracy provides the film's best look (turning slowly to Buddy Hackett at unearthing scene), and Terry-Thomas the best lines (his rant about the state of America).
The fortune hunters are Milton Berle and Dorothy Provine, Sid Caesar, Edie Adams and Ethel Merman (as the worst mother-in-law in the world), Mickey Rooney, Hackett and Jonathan Winters, who are joined by Terry-Thomas, Phil Silvers, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson and Peter Falk (cab drivers).
And guest stars include William Demarest, Edward Everett Horton, Joe E Brown, Andy Devine, Norman Fell, Buster Keaton, Zasu Pitts, Jimmy Durante and Carl Reiner.
Great stunts.
Filmed by Ernest Laszlo (and. no doubt, a few other people). Weirdly, because it has so many people in it, they're almost always shot face on and there's very little of the standard shot-reverse shot stuff you see, giving the film quite a flat look.
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