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I’ve got to go with Groucho for this one.

Best ensemble cast: It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.
Spencer Tracy as Captain T.G. Culpeper
Edie Adams as Monica Crump
Milton Berle as J. Russell Finch
Sid Caesar as Melville Crump
Buddy Hackett as “Benjy” Benjamin
Ethel Merman as Mrs. Marcus
Dorothy Provine as Emmeline Marcus-Finch
Mickey Rooney as “Dingy” Bell
Dick Shawn as Sylvester Marcus
Phil Silvers as Otto Meyer
Terry-Thomas as Lt. Col. J. Algernon Hawthorne
Jonathan Winters as Lennie Pike
Supporting cast[edit]
Eddie “Rochester” Anderson as a cab driver
Jim Backus as airplane owner Tyler Fitzgerald
Barrie Chase as Sylvester Marcus’ sexy, laconic dancing girlfriend
William Demarest as Aloysius, Chief of the Santa Rosita Police Department
Jimmy Durante as “Smiler” Grogan, the robber who buried the money.
Peter Falk as a cab driver
Paul Ford as Col. Wilberforce
Cameo appearances[edit]
Jack Benny as man driving a 1931 Cadillac Fleetwood
Paul Birch as a Santa Rosita police officer at the intersection (with binoculars)
Ben Blue as the vintage biplane pilot
Joe E. Brown as the union official giving a speech at a construction site
Alan Carney as a sergeant with the Santa Rosita Police Department
Chick Chandler as the policeman at Ray and Irwin’s service station
Stanley Clements as a local reporter at police station
Lloyd Corrigan as the mayor of Santa Rosita
Howard Da Silva as police officer at airport
Andy Devine as the sheriff of Crockett County, California
Selma Diamond as Ginger Culpeper, Captain Culpeper’s wife (voice only)
Minta Durfee as a crowd extra watching the fire escape rescue
Roy Engel as a Santa Rosita Police Department officer at the intersection
Norman Fell as primary detective at the “Smiler” Grogan accident site
James Flavin as a crossroads patrolman (scene deleted from general release version)
Stan Freberg as a deputy sheriff of Crockett County
Nicholas Georgiade as supporting detective at the “Smiler” Grogan accident site
Louise Glenn as Billie Sue Culpeper, the daughter of Captain Culpeper (voice only)
Leo Gorcey as the cab driver bringing Melville and Monica to the hardware store
Stacy Harris as police radio voice unit F-7 (voice only), and as a detective outside of Mr. Dinkler’s hardware store
Don C. Harvey as a Santa Rosita Police Department officer
Sterling Holloway as the Santa Rosita Fire Department fireman
Edward Everett Horton as Mr. Dinkler, owner of the hardware store
Allen Jenkins as a policeman
Marvin Kaplan as service station co-owner Irwin
Robert Karnes as Sammy, a Santa Rosita Police Department officer in helicopter
Buster Keaton as Jimmy, Culpeper’s boatman friend
Tom Kennedy as a Santa Rosita traffic cop
Don Knotts as the nervous motorist
Charles Lane as the airport manager
Harry Lauter as a Santa Rosita Police Department police dispatcher
Ben Lessy as George the steward
Bobo Lewis as vintage biplane pilot’s wife
Jerry Lewis as the motorist who runs over Culpeper’s hat
Mike Mazurki as the miner bringing medicine to his wife
Charles McGraw as Lt. Mathews of the Santa Rosita Police Department
Tyler McVey as a police radio voice (voice only)
ZaSu Pitts as Gertie, the Santa Rosita Police Department Central Division’s switchboard operator
Carl Reiner as the Rancho Conejo airport tower controller
Madlyn Rhue as secretary Schwartz of the Santa Rosita Police Department
Eddie Ryder as Rancho Conejo air traffic control tower staff member
Arnold Stang as service station co-owner Ray
Nick Stewart as the migrant truck driver forced off the road
The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Joe DeRita) as Rancho Conejo Airport firemen
Sammee Tong as a laundryman
Doodles Weaver as a Dinkler Hardware Store employee
Lennie Weinrib as a police radio voice, and as a fireman (voice only)
Jesse White as a Rancho Conejo air traffic controller