Million Dollar Mystery
Million Dollar Mystery( also known as Money Mania) is a 1987 American film released with a promotional tie- in for Glad- Lock brand bags.
This was the final feature- length film directed by Richard Fleischer.
It starred an ensemble cast of" America's new comic talent".
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World inspired this film.
The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians
The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians is a 1970 American animated television special produced by Rankin/ Bass Productions.
After the Christmas special" Frosty the Snowman"( 1969), it was Rankin/ Bass' second hand- drawn animated work to be outsourced to Osamu Tezuka's Mushi Production in Tokyo, Japan.
The show aired on ABC on April 7, 1970 before the airing of that year's Oscars.
It was a tribute to early vaudeville, and featured animated reworkings of various famous comedians' acts.
The Proud and Damned
The Proud and Damned, also known as The Proud and the Damned, Proud and Damned, and Proud, Damned and Dead, is a 1972 American- Colombian co-production western film directed by Ferde Grofé Jr..
Some sources quote the title as" The Proud and" the" Damned", which is not the original name.
The actual title," The Proud and Damned", is clearly displayed in the title text of the original film version in the opening of the movie.
Some images erroneously use the title" The Proud and the Damned".
Rat Race (film)
Rat Race is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Jerry Zucker.
Inspired by Stanley Kramer's 1963 classic
" It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World", the film features an ensemble cast consisting of Rowan Atkinson, Whoopi Goldberg, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jon Lovitz, Kathy Najimy, Lanai Chapman, Breckin Meyer, Amy Smart, Seth Green, Vince Vieluf, Wayne Knight, John Cleese and Dave Thomas.
The film centers on six teams of people who are given the task of racing 563 miles from a Las Vegas casino to a Silver City, New Mexico train station where a storage locker contains a duffel bag filled with$ 2 million; the first person to reach the locker wins and gets to keep the money.
Produced by Fireworks Pictures, Alphaville Films and Zucker's Zucker Productions, the film was released theatrically by Paramount Pictures on August 17, 2001 in the United States and Canada.
It received mixed reviews from critics but was a box office success, having grossed$ 85.5 million worldwide against a$ 48 million budget.
Total Dhamaal
Total Dhamaal( also known as Dhamaal 3) is an Indian 2019 Hindi- language adventure comedy film directed, co-produced and written by Indra Kumar.
The third installment of the" Dhamaal franchise", it is a reboot of the 2007 film" Dhamaal", and based loosely on the 1963 Hollywood film" It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad WorldTotal Dhamaal" features an large ensemble cast including Ajay Devgn, Anil Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit, Riteish Deshmukh, Arshad Warsi, Javed Jaffrey, and Esha Gupta.
It also stars Sanjay Mishra, Pitobash Tripathy, Boman Irani, Johnny Lever, and Manoj Pahwa in brief roles, with Sonakshi Sinha appearing in an item number" Mungda".
Production of the film began in March 2017.
Deshmukh, Warsi and Jaffrey were chosen to be a part of" Total Dhamaal" too.
Meanwhile, Devgn, Kapoor and Dixit were added to the cast as well.
Principal photography of" Total Dhamaal" began in January 2018.
Devgn also co-produced the film.
Filming concluded in August 2018.
The official teaser of the film was released on 19 January 2019 following which the trailer was launched on 21 January.
Due to the Pulwama Attack held on 14 February, the film was not released in Pakistan.
The film was theatrically released on 22 February 2019.
It grossed over 2 billion worldwide within twelve days of its release.
Earning 2.28 billion worldwide, the film became one of the highest- grossing Bollywood films of 2019 and one of the highest- grossing Indian films of all time.
As it netted 1.55 billion domestically, it was given a super hit verdict by Box Office India.
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
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.
It 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.
The film marked the first time Kramer 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 OnesInherit the WindJudgment at Nuremberg", and" Guess Who's Coming to Dinner".
His first attempt at directing a comedy film paid off immensely as" It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" became a critical and commercial success in 1963 and was nominated for six Academy Awards, winning for Best Sound Editing, and two Golden Globe Awards.
Despite this, the film suffered severe cuts by its distributor United Artists in order to give the film a shorter running time for its general release.
The footage was excised against Kramer's wishes.
On October 15, 2013, however, it was announced that the Criterion Collection had collaborated with Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer, United Artists, and film restoration expert Robert A. Harris to reconstruct and restore" It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" to be as close as possible to the original 197- minute version envisioned by Kramer.
It was released in a five- disc" Dual Format" Blu-ray/ DVD Combo Pack on January 21, 2014.
" It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" featured at number 40 in the American Film Institute's list 100 Years ...
100 Laughs.
The Hallelujah Trail
The Hallelujah Trail is a 1965 American Western mockumentary spoof directed by John Sturges, with top- billed stars Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Jim Hutton and Pamela Tiffin.
Based on the book of the same title( originally released as" The Hallelujah Train") by Bill Guilick in 1963.
The film was one of several large- scale widescreen, long- form" epic" comedies produced in the 1960s, much like" The Great Race" and" It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World", combined with the epic grandeur of the Western genre.
Its running time is 2 hours, 45 minutes.
The movie is part of a group, which were filmed in Ultra Panavision 70 and presented in selected theaters via the oversized Super Cinerama process.
Stuntman Bill Williams was killed on November 13, 1964 while performing a stunt involving a wagon going over a cliff.
The scene was kept in the movie.
On October 19, 1968, three years and four months after its release, the film had its television premiere in a three- hour timeslot on" NBC Saturday Night at the Movies".
Bhagam Bhag
Bhagam Bhag is a 2006 Indian comedy thriller film.
The film is directed by Priyadarshan, starring an ensemble cast of Akshay Kumar, Govinda, Paresh Rawal, Lara Dutta, Rajpal Yadav, Jackie Shroff, Arbaaz Khan, Shakti Kapoor, Manoj Joshi, Razak Khan, Sharat Saxena and Asrani while Tanushree Dutta makes a special appearance.
It released on 22 December 2006.
The story borrows plot points from Siddique- Lal's 1995 Malayalam film" Mannar Mathai Speaking" which was based on" Vertigo" and certain sub-plots from Sathyan Anthikkad's" Nadodikkattu".
The climax sequence of the film is borrowed from Stanley Kramer's" It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"( 1963) and the plot- twist climax was borrowed from the Marathi thriller" Bindhaast" which earlier remade in Tamil as" Snegithiye" and in Malayalam as" Raakilipattu" by Priyadarshan.
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World( 富貴逼人) is a 1987 Hong Kong film, directed by Clifton Ko. It starred Bill Tung and Lydia Sum as parents of the dysfunctional Piu family.
The daughters were played by Elsie Chan, Loletta Lee and Pauline Kwan.
The comedy was very popular and the original cast of Tung, Shum, Chan, Lee and Kwan reappeared in its sequels" It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World II"( 富貴再逼人)( 1988)," It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World III"( 富貴再三逼人)( 1989) and" It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World Too"( 富貴黃金屋)( 1992).
The plots of the films are all about the family becoming suddenly rich, usually through lotteries.
The family also made a cameo appearance in" The Banquet"( 1991).
The Proud and Profane
The Proud and Profane is a 1956 dramatic war romance made by William Perlberg- George Seaton Productions for Paramount Pictures.
It was directed by George Seaton and produced by William Perlberg, from a screenplay by George Seaton, based on the 1953 novel" The Magnificent Bastards" by Lucy Herndon Crockett.
The film stars William Holden and Deborah Kerr with Thelma Ritter, Dewey Martin, William Redfield and Peter Hansen in supporting roles.

Question: Which film was released more recently, The Proud And Profane or It'S A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World?
Answer: It'S A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World