It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Cache Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

Reviewer Smith: As I have not heard from the cache owner within the requested time frame, the cache is being archived.

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Hidden : 4/2/2013
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Easy park and grab, but not so fast! You'll need a lot of stealth for this micro; in fact, PLEASE use the utmost stealth in searching for this cache, since it is our most exposed cache of all! Cachers in wheelchairs will have no trouble reaching GZ but may need an assist in retrieving the cache itself. Congrats to Outdoorsychic and Avatar 37 for the FTF!



This is the first in a series of caches based on "treasure hunt" movies. The cache is based on one of our favorites, 1963's "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World," which is described at www.trueclassics.net like this:

     "At three-plus hours long, Mad definitely requires an investment of your time, but it’s well worth it. The movie begins with a car weaving in and out of traffic on a California highway; it eventually flies off a cliff and crashes, sending the driver, a crook named “Smiler” Grogan (Jimmy Durante), through the windshield. He is found by five passengers of the cars he has just passed: Russell (Milton Berle), who is traveling with his wife (Dorothy Provine) and annoying mother-in-law (Ethel Merman); Melville (Sid Caesar), a dentist traveling with his wife (Edie Adams); Lennie Pike, a truck driver (Jonathan Winters); and comedy writers Dingy and Benjy (Mickey Rooney and Buddy Hackett), who are traveling together to Las Vegas. As Smiler dies, he tells the men that he buried $350,000 “under a big W” in the state park about two hundred miles away. When the men depart, following one another down the highway, all of them begin to suspect the others of trying to go for the loot. But after trying–and failing–to negotiate a fair split of the money, it becomes an every-man-for-himself race to the finish line, and the competitors use anything and everything in their arsenals to get ahead, with increasingly frenetic results.
     "Every type of humor you can imagine is on display in this film: madcap screwball hi-jinks (including my favorite part: Jonathan Winters destroying a garage practically with his bare hands); painful physical comedy (watch Sid Caesar’s expression after he’s thrown from an unstable firetruck ladder); bitingly sarcastic retorts; quick-witted comebacks; and broad, flailing, “look at me!” grabs for attention. There’s even the old slipping-on-the-banana-peel gag. All that’s missing from this film are a couple of pies in the face! Whatever your brand of humor, you’ll find something that tickles your funny bone in this movie."








 

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