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1. In 1963, Stanley Kramer produced a movie which can be watched over and over due to the staggering number of comedians and comedy actors in the cast and the scope of the action. In one opening scene, a character named 'Smiler' Grogan speeds down a desert highway, evading the police. In attempting to pass a number of cars, he loses control and crashes down a steep embankment. Grogan is played by what veteran movie and TV comedian? Good night, Mrs. Calabash, where ever you are.
2. J. Russell Finch (Berle), his wife Emmaline, (Dorothy Provine) and her hyper-critical mother agree to go on a chase to reach the money first, after the other participants cannot agree on splitting the money fairly. Their quest turns into a race to reach Santa Rosita and the money. Finch's mother-in-law is played by what Broadway and movie star?
3. In an attempt to get ahead of the others, Melville Crump (Sid Caesar) and his wife Monica (Edie Adams) charter an airplane, only to find that it's a World War I biplane which can't fly as fast as a modern automobile can go. Who played the pilot of this antique?
4. Ding Bell (Mickey Rooney) and his partner Benjy Benjamin (Buddy Hackett) are two more participants in the race to reach the money. They, too, want to hire a pilot to fly them to Santa Rosita, but their plans, too, go somewhat astray. They find a pilot and plane, but there is something wrong with the pilot, played by whom?
5. Meanwhile, back on the road, Otto Meyer (Phil Silvers) needs to fix a tire at a desert filling station. Here he has a run-in with Lenny Pike (Jonathan Winters, in his first screen appearance). The two attendants think Lenny is mad. Afraid of his violent temper, they get him tied up with duct tape. One of the attendants was played by Marvin Kaplan (Irwin). Who played his partner (Ray)?
6. Melville Crump and wife Monica have landed and caught a cab to take them to the park. But they decide to stop first at a hardware store and buy a shovel and spade for digging up the buried money. Who was the cab driver that delivered them?
7. At the Police Station, the race to the money is being tracked by all hands. Captain Culpepper (Spencer Tracy) accidentally sails his hat through an open window onto the street, where it is deliberately crushed by a passing automobile. Do you remember who was driving the car?
8. With the aid of two cab drivers (Peter Falk and Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson) the treasure hunters arrive at the park at the same time. The money is buried beneath the 'Big W', but what is the 'Big W'?
9. They find the money, only to discover that the police (Captain Culpepper) are present. Culpepper convinces the group to go to the Police Station and turn themselves in, rather than being arrested. "It will go easier on you that way," he says. The policeman, of course, plans to abscond with the money. Why?
10. Who wound up with all the money?
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