It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World
This is not quite the conventional road trip movie that comes to mind. To most people, a road trip constitutes a movie portraying a family on vacation in their car, traveling across the country. Quite boring indeed as one may find more pleasure in eating the popcorn instead of watching it.
This movie, It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) is quite different as it is a road trip film that is based on a group of strangers traveling around the country, chasing a prize. The movie starts with a group of people who stop to help a motorist who tells them of a monetary prize worth 350,000.00$ and yet are not really told where it really is. They are given obscure details of the exact location and that is sufficient to ignite people into a frenzied madcap pursuit for the prize. The group of people tear across the country in their cars, obliterating any obstacle that stands in their way. Eventually, the group do discover the prize however, loses it to Spencer Tracy who he himself, wants to keep the prize. However, he loses it too due to clumsiness and all the cash comes flying out onto the streets. It is really a movie worth watching as there are no artificial stunts or computerized images, its all pure adventure.
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