REVIEW
One of the top box-office hits of the 1960s, this over-long Cinemascope extravaganza was director Kramer's attempt to revive the silent slapstick comedies of years gone by. For the most part, it works. Tracy, in one of his last screen appearances, heads the truly all-star cast looking for an elusive "W" marking the spot of a buried fortune. The cast is really just second-bananas to a series of hilarious stunts and car chases, though Merman gives a hilarious performance as the mother-in-law from hell. Still good for some genuine laughs, the film is representative of the overblown all-star epics which marked the mid-'60s.