There Was More to Comedy Legend Don Knotts Than Anyone Ever Knew

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Knotts played a nerve-wracked motorist in the 1963 comedy, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, which is about the mad pursuit of $350,000—which would be over $2.7 million today—in stolen cash by a group of strangers. The cast is played by iconic actors of the time like Edie Adams and Buddy Hackett.

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