Continuity mistake: In the scene where Dick Shawn and all the characters find the box of money under the big W, Shawn has just thrown Jonathan Winters out of the hole so he would have room to work. But in the next five edits, Winters is both in the hole helping Shawn struggle with the box and is also shown standing outside the hole observing himself along with the others.
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
Plot summary
Directed by: Stanley Kramer
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Peter Falk, Mickey Rooney, Carl Reiner, Jim Backus, Buddy Hackett, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Milton Berle, Phil Silvers
Three cars and a moving van witness a man drive over a cliff in a car. When they pull over to see what happened, the man tells them about $350,000 he secretly buried "under a big W." They agree to not let the police know and all start racing towards the location of the money. They don't realise they are under police surveillance the whole time they are en route and do everything but kill one another in trying to get to the money first.
Al Rooney
More mistakes in It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
J. Algernon Hawthorne: Jolly nasty accident there. Jolly lucky nobody was hurt.
Mrs. Marcus: Where did you get that funny accent? Are you from Harvard or something?
J. Algernon Hawthorne: Harvard? Rather not. I'm English.
Mrs. Marcus: Sounds so foreign.
J. Algernon Hawthorne: Really?
Trivia: The Sid Caesar blowtorch scene was done 85 times before they got it right.
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