A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
Spencer Tracy
as C. G. Culpepper
Milton Berle
as J. Russell Finch
Sid Caesar
as Melville Crump
Buddy Hackett
as Benjy Benjamin
Ethel Merman
as Mrs. Marcus
Mickey Rooney
as Ding 'Dingy' Bell
Dick Shawn
as Sylvester Marcus
Phil Silvers
as Otto Meyer
Terry-Thomas
as J. Algernon Hawthorne
Jonathan Winters
as Lennie Pike
Edie Adams
as Monica Crump
Dorothy Provine
as Emeline Marcus-Finch