<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $9.4 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $60 million </Td> </Tr> <P> It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a 1963 American epic comedy film, produced and directed by Stanley Kramer and starring Spencer Tracy with an all - star cast, about the madcap pursuit of $350,000 in stolen cash by a diverse and colorful group of strangers . The ensemble comedy premiered on November 7, 1963 . The cast features Edie Adams, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Phil Silvers, Terry - Thomas, and Jonathan Winters . </P> <P> The film marked the first time that Kramer had directed a comedy, though he had produced the comedy So This Is New York in 1948 . He is best known for producing and directing drama films about social problems, such as The Defiant Ones, Inherit the Wind, Judgment at Nuremberg, and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner . </P>

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