History Film / ScavengerHunt1979

''Scavenger Hunt'' is a 1979 American comedy film directed by Michael Schultz, starring ([[AllStarCast among others]]) Creator/RichardBenjamin, James Coco, Creator/ScatmanCrothers, Creator/RuthGordon, Creator/ClorisLeachman, Creator/CleavonLittle, Creator/RoddyMcDowall, Creator/RobertMorley, Creator/RichardMulligan, and Tony Randall.

* IntoxicationEnsues: Kenny, Jeff, Lisa, and Kay all start giggling and gradually laughing uncontrollably when the tank of laughing gas they nabbed (which is one of the items on the list) is accidentally opened inside the van. The cop who stops them is convinced that they're high on something, but he gets gassed himself and voluntarily gives them his uniform, another item on the list.

* Marvin Dummitz (Mulligan), a dim-witted taxi driver who helped Milton gain full control of his company by getting his business partner lost. He later joins up with Sam (Crothers), a bridal store security guard who apprehends him as he's trying to swipe a wedding gown, but ends up joining him when he learns about the $200 million dollar reward.

* His kind-hearted nephews Jeff and Kenny Stevens, who invite Mildred's step-daughter Lisa on their team when she is forbidden from playing by her step-mother.
* His widowed son-in-law Henry Motley, along with his four rambunctious children.
* His servants, consisting of his chauffeur Jackson (Little), his French chef Henri (Coco), his French maid Babbette, and his valet Jenkins ([=McDowall=]).

''Scavenger Hunt'' is a 1979 American comedy film directed by Michael Schultz, starring ([[AllStarCast among others]]) James Coco, Creator/RichardBenjamin, Creator/ScatmanCrothers, Creator/RuthGordon, Creator/ClorisLeachman, Creator/CleavonLittle, Creator/RoddyMcDowall, Creator/RobertMorley, Creator/RichardMulligan, and Tony Randall.

The plot involves, well, a ScavengerHunt for all sorts of outrageous items arranged by late game inventor Milton Parker (Creator/VincentPrice), the grand prize being his estate and the $200 million contained in his will. There are five teams playing for the prize, all of whom were connected to Milton in one way or another. They include:

The plot involves, well, a ScavengerHunt for all sorts of outrageous items arranged by late game inventor Milton Parker (Creator/VincentPrice), the grand prize being his estate and the $200 million contained in his will. There are five teams playing for the prize, all of them connected to Milton in one way or another. They include:

''Scavenger Hunt'' is a 1979 American comedy film directed by Michael Schultz, starring ([[AllStarCast among others]]) James Coco Creator/RichardBenjamin, Creator/ScatmanCrothers, Creator/RuthGordon, Creator/ClorisLeachman, Creator/CleavonLittle, Creator/RoddyMcDowall, Creator/RobertMorley, Creator/RichardMulligan, and Tony Randall.

* ScavengerHunt: It's right there in the title. The items listed include a BulletproofVest, a pair of false teeth, a toilet, a live ostrich, a tank of laughing gas, a policeman's uniform, a fat person, a wedding dress, the head of a Jack-in-the-Box drive-thru speaker, a beanie chopper, a suit of armor, a foxtail, a safe, a teddy bear, a beehive, a life preserver, a parachute, a medicine ball, the grille of a Rolls-Royce, a crate of bananas, and all sorts of other random and improbable items.

** Averted with Charles Bernstein, Milton’s lawyer and the executor of his estate, who is scrupulous in his duties and contemptuously/bemusedly tells Stuart how hard it is for him to believe they're in the same profession.

* VideoWill: Milton leaves behind a recorded will on a cassette tape, through which he could not resist the urge to taunt his heirs one last time.
* WeWinBecauseYouDidnt: At the end, the servants observe how far ahead of everyone else Mildred, Stuart, and George are, and they decide to give Lisa and the Stevens brothers everything in their pile in the hopes of letting them catch up and having someone else win, which prompts the other teams to quickly follow suit. This is rewarded by the Stevens brothers and Lisa sharing their newly-won money with them, the other teams, and everyone who helped them along the way.

** Averted with Charles Bernstein, Milton’s lawyer and the executor of his estate, who is scrupulous in his duties and contemptuously/bemusedly tells Stuart how hard it is for him to believe they're in the same profession.

* ShutUpGunshot: When the teams dissolve into a noisy argument at the end of the hunt, Charlies takes a gun off one the police officers who showed up and fires it into the air to get silence.

* VideoWill: Milton leaves behind a recorded will on a cassette tape, through which he could not resist the urge to taunt his heirs one last time.

** Averted with Charles Bernstein, Milton’s lawyer and the executor of his estate, who is scrupulous in his duties and contemptuously/bemusedly tells Stuart how hard it is for him to believe they're in the same profession.

* {{Mummy}}: Marvin tries disguising himself as one in the museum so Sam, the guard from the bridal shop who has subsequently teamed up with him, can steal a suit of armor. It doesn't work out the way they planned, but it helps the Stevens' brothers win in the end.

* VideoWill: Milton leaves behind a recorded will on a cassette tape, through which he could not resist the urge to taunt his heirs one last time.

** Averted with Charles Bernstein, Milton’s lawyer and the executor of his estate, who is scrupulous in his duties and contemptuously/bemusedly tells Stuart how hard it is for him to believe they're in the same profession.

* MuggedForDisguise: Kenny and Jeff take a policeman's uniform, which is on the list, but not for a disguise. It helps that the officer is hit by a dose of laughing gas, rendering him passive enough to let them take it. Near the end, he sobers up and chases them all the way back to Milton's estate to get it back.

* VideoWill: Milton leaves behind a recorded will on a cassette tape, through which he could not resist the urge to taunt his heirs one last time.

** Averted with Charles Bernstein, Milton’s lawyer and the executor of his estate, who is scrupulous in his duties and contemptuously/bemusedly tells Stuart how hard it is for him to believe they're in the same profession.

* InconvenientParachuteDeployment: Henry and his kids are driving along a rural road when their parachute (one of the items on the list). in the back of their station wagon, deploys through the open rear window. This causes the car to swerve out of control and winds up stranding them with a flat tire.

* VideoWill: Milton leaves behind a recorded will on a cassette tape, through which he could not resist the urge to taunt his heirs one last time.

** Averted with Charles Bernstein, Milton’s lawyer and the executor of his estate, who is scrupulous in his duties and contemptuously/bemusedly tells Stuart how hard it is for him to believe they're in the same profession.

* CoolOldLady: Kenny happens to be good friends with Arvila, a tough-as-nails woman who looks to be at least seventy. He, Jeff, Lisa, and Kay visit her house for a bulletproof vest, which is an item on the list. It's during their visit that she has a collection of brass knuckles, tear gas, chains, and other stuff, as well as that she met Kenny when she saved him from being mugged.

* VideoWill: Milton leaves behind a recorded will on a cassette tape, through which he could not resist the urge to taunt his heirs one last time.

''Scavenger Hunt'' is a 1979 American comedy film directed by Michael Schultz, starring ([[AllStarCast among others]]) Creator/RichardBenjamin, James Coco, Creator/ScatmanCrothers, Creator/RuthGordon, Creator/ClorisLeachman, Creator/CleavonLittle, Creator/RoddyMcDowall, Creator/RobertMorley, Creator/RichardMulligan and Tony Randall.

The plot involves, well, ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin – specifically, a ScavengerHunt arranged by the late game inventor Milton Parker (Creator/VincentPrice) for the $200 million contained in his will. There are five teams, consisting of Mr. Parker's servants, led by his cook Henri (Coco) and valet Jenkins ([=McDowall=]); his greedy widowed sister Mildred (Leachman), with her dumb son Georgie and her AmoralAttorney Selsome (Benjamin); his son-in-law Henry Motley (Randall) and his four children; his nephews [[SiblingTeam Kenny and Jeff Stevens]], with Mildred's stepdaughter Lisa; and cab driver Marvin Dummitz (Mulligan). [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity quickly ensues]].

* AirVentPassageway: Dummitz breaks into the bridal boutique by crawling in through an air vent.
* AllBikersAreHellsAngels: The Piece Corps are a gang of outlaw bikers Selsome runs afoul of when he attempts to steal a fox tail off one of their bikes. Their leader Scum orders him beaten to death.
* AlliterativeName: '''S'''tuart '''S'''elsome, which is appropriate because he's a SmugSnake.
* AmoralAttorney: Mildred’s lawyer Stewart Selsome is a greedy man who encourages her to cry and fake sympathy at the will reading and is quick to try and sabotage the other teams and seize other unfair advantages. Averted with Milton’s lawyer, and the executor of his estate, Charles Bernstein, who is scrupulous in his duties and contemptuously/bemusedly tells Sellsome that it’s hard for him to believe they're in the same profession.
* BadassBiker: Scum, the leader of the biker gang who Selsome makes the mistake of crossing.
* BavarianFireDrill: The servants manage to steal a toilet from a fancy hotel this way.
* BigBrotherBully: Georgie seems like a jerk to his stepsister Lisa, who is quick to bail on him and his mother and join the Stevens team.
* BigFun: One of the rules is "50 bonus points for the team with the heaviest person." The man Jeff, Kenny and Lisa find is a bit of a FatIdiot and slob who they get to come by lying that the bonus points are for someone dressed exactly like him (sensing he'd be offended by the real reason. The guy Dummitz brings is openly excited about being a point-getter for a scavenger hunt, is amused by the whole thing and doesn't even mind arriving tied across the hood of Dummitz's taxi.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: Parker’s family consists of his son-in-law and four rambunctious grandchildren, his greedy sister Mildred, her ManChild son and long-suffering stepdaughter, and two relatively normal nephews the Stevens brothers (its unclear if their parent is a deceased third sibling or Mildred from one of her past marriages, although either way they don’t like her that much).
* BrainlessBeauty: Babbette the FrenchMaid, who does not know what a microscope is.
* BrandishmentBluff: Jenkins holds up a shopkeeper by jabbing a carrot in his back and claiming its a gun.
* BrownBagMask: Jenkins, Jackson and Henri pull paper bags over their heads when they rob the grocery store. Henri forgets to cut any eye holes in his, however, and this goes so badly that he insists the clerk not look as he tries to find an alternative (settling on pantyhose).
* TheCameo: Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger appears for a couple minutes as a gym instructor Mr. Motley runs into.
* CarMeetsHouse: During the car chase, Jackson misses a turn the other vehicles make and instead drives the limo through the glass window of a showroom, and then out the window on the other side to rejoin the chase.
* ChaseScene: Of the car-chase variety.
* ChekhovsGunman: Dummitz partners with a museum security guard in order to get at some of the items on the list. [[spoiler:The man is inside their suit of armor when it gets stolen by Mildred, Georgie and Sellsome, and because he’s in the suit of armor he’s able to move it into the Stevens pile.]]
* CompanionCube: Because it was the first item they obtained, the servants keep the toilet with them for the rest of the hunt as a mascot/good luck charm; naming it 'Mont Clair'. They are extremely upset when Mildred, Georgie and Selsome steal it, and when it falls out the car and smashes, Babbette screams "They killed Mont Clair!".
* CoolOldLady: A self-defense obsessed woman named Arvilla who looks to be at least seventy is visited by the Stevens brothers and Lisa for some of the items from her collection of brass knuckles, tear gas, chains and such, and it’s revealed she met Kenny saving him form a mugging.
* DestinationDefenestration: Happens accidentally when Lars (Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger) throws a medicine ball to Henry, who catches it. The impact propels him backwards out the second floor window off the gym.
* DidntSeeThatComing: Mildred, Georgie and Selsome are in an elevator and a janitor walks over and attaches an "OUT OF ORDER" sign.
-->'''Selsome''': "Out of order? What do you mean 'out of order'? It was working just a second ago!"\\
'''Janitor''': "I'm sorry but it's not working now."\\
'''Selsome''': "But it was working, just a second ago."\\
'''Janitor''': "And a second ago I wasn't standing here talking to a moron."
* TheDitz: Dummitz, whose in the will because he made Milton richer by getting lost driving his business partner to a meeting to renew some contracts (giving Milton full control of the company), and arguably does the worst in the hunt.
* ElevatorFailure: Mildred, Georgie and Selsome's plan to steal a safe comes unstuck when the elevator breaks down between when they get out and when they get back with the safe.
-->'''Selsome''': "Out of order? What do you mean 'out of order'? It was working just a second ago!"\\
'''Janitor''': "I'm sorry but it's not working now."\\
'''Selsome''': "But it was working, just a second ago."\\
'''Janitor''': "And a second ago I wasn't standing here talking to a moron."
* EurekaMoment: As everyone observes how far ahead [[spoiler:Mildred’s team is]], [[spoiler:Jenkins the butler]] muses that while items are allowed to be given, and offers his teams to another team.
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The movie starts in the late morning with the reading of the will, and ends just after 5 pm when the points from the ScavengerHunt are tallied. Total time elapsed is probably not more than six hours.
* FrenchCuisineIsHaughty: Parker’s chef is a somewhat haughty (although not to FrenchJerk levels) Frenchman named Henri.
* FrenchMaid: Babbette, who dresses in the requisite FrenchMaidOutfit, and combines this trope with BrainlessBeauty.
* FrenchMaidOutfit: Babbette is an actual FrenchMaid who wears the outfit as her uniform. This is not too surprising given that the little we see of her late employer Mr. Parker indicates that he was something of a DirtyOldMan.
* GameBetweenHeirs: Milton Parker dies and leaves his fortune to the person or group of people that win his scavenger hunt. There is no motivation to make them become a family, although throughout the hunt the Stevens brothers bond with Lisa, his son-in-law and grandchildren get closer and [[spoiler:Both of those groups ally at the end.]]
* InconvenientParachuteDeployment: Henry and his kids are driving along a rural road when the parachute (one of the items in the ScavengerHunt) in the back of the station wagon deploys through the open rear window. This causes the car to slue out of control and winds up stranding them with a flat tyre.
* IntoxicationEnsues: Kenny, Jeff, Lisa and Kay all start giggling, and then laughing uncontrollably when the cylinder of laughing gas (which is one of the items in the scavenger hunt) is accidentally opened inside the van. The cop who stops them is convinced they are on something, but then gets gassed himself and voluntarily gives them his uniform.
* ItsProbablyNothing: This is Sam's reaction when her hears Dummitz [[AirVentPassageway breaking into the bridal boutique via the air vent]]. It is only when Dummitz tries to sneak past him [[NobodyHereButUsStatues disguised as a mannequin]] that he decides he should investigate.
* LoopholeAbuse: The various teams aren’t allowed to buy anything, but Selsome calls several of his employees and gives them the scavenger hunt list so ''they'' can buy the stuff and then give it to him. Then, at the end [[spoiler:the security guard in the suit of armor staggers out of Mildred’s pile and into the Stevens, because while the rules prevent members of an opposing team from moving their items, there’s no rule against an “item” moving itself.]]
* MeaningfulName: Doubles as a ShoutOut; Milton Parker is likely named after Creator/MiltonBradley and the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Brothers Parker Brothers]] -- both are game companies, perfect for a game inventor.
* MistakenForRacist: Selsome, when he asks Jackson the African-American limo driver if “you people” (meaning the staff) have anything to eat.
* MotorcycleDominoes: After being thrown out of the biker bar, Selsome pauses to gloat over the fact that none of the bikers noticed him pocketing the fox tail. As he does so, he knocks over one of the bikes: triggering a domino chain reaction. Seconds later, the bikers are chasing him again.
* MuggedForDisguise: Not for disguise, but Kenny and Jeff's team ''do'' take a policeman's uniform.
* {{Mummy}}: Marvin tries disguising himself as one so Sam (Creator/ScatmanCrothers), the guard from the bridal shop who has subsequently teamed up with Marvin, can steal a suit of armor. It doesn't work out the way they planned.
* NobodyHereButUsStatues: Dummitz attempts to steal a wedding dress by posing as a mannequin and sneaking out of the boutique.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The character Marvin Dummitz and the story of how Mr. Parker's business partner had the misfortune of hailing Dummitz's cab on the day of an important meeting, and never making it to the meeting, is a parody of the real-life story of Melvin Dummar and Howard Hughes, which was later told straight in ''Melvin and Howard''.
* ObliviousJanitorCut: A janitor wearing headphones fails to hear the servants screaming at the top of their lungs in the locked lab.
* OhCrap: The servants get stuck in a lab while trying to take a microscope. They stand on each other's shoulders and accidentally light the sprinkler on fire.

* PlotTriggeringDeath: Milton Parker's death kicks off the eponymous scavenger hunt amongst his greedy survivors to win his inheritance.
* ScarilyCompetentTracker: PlayedForLaughs. Selsome steals a set of false teeth from an old Indian, who then proceeds to track his Cadillac across the paved streets of the city.
* ScaryStingingSwarm: Henry goes to get a beehive out of a field, and, of course, gets stung.
* ScavengerHunt: Well, duh. It's right there in the title. The items include a BulletproofVest, {{False Teeth|Tomfoolery}}, a toilet, an ostrich, laughing gas, a policeman's uniform, a fat person, and more random, improbable items.
* ShoutOut: When Selsome sees Milton’s grandchildren he quips “''Film/TheBadNewsBears'' break parole.”
* ShutUpGunshot: When the teams dissolve into a noisy argument at the end of the hunt, Bernstein takes a gun off one the police officers and fires it into the air to get silence.
* SpeechImpediment: The zookeeper who is perplexed by how his ostriches keep being stolen (due to being on the scavenger list) has a heavy lisp.
* StagedPedestrianAccident: Dummitz sees a ConMan pulling this scam in a car park, and decides it would be the perfect way to obtain a Rolls-Royce grille. He then makes multiple attempts to be hit by the Rolls, all of which fail, but which result in him being run over by a succession of different cars!
* StealingFromTheHotel: How the servants get a toilet. It later falls out and smashes on the road.

* VideoWill: Milton Parker leaves behind an ''audio'' will; recorded on a cassette tape. It seems he could not resist the urge to taunt his heirs one last time.
* WeWinBecauseYouDidnt: At the end [[spoiler:The servants team observe at how far ahead of everyone else Mildred, Selsome and George are, and decide to give the Stevens and Lisa everything in their pile in the hopes of letting them catch up and having someone else win. All of the other teams quickly follow suit. This is rewarded by the Stevens brothers and Lisa sharing the prize with them.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The nurse who is with Milton when he dies is never seen again and isn’t included in the will.
* WheresTheKaboom: A grenade falls off the BulletproofVest Kenny and Jeff get from Arvila (Ruth Gordon.) It turns out to be a dud.
** NeverMessWithGranny: Arvila says that she keeps the real ones with the [[{{BFG}} Howitzer]].

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''Scavenger Hunt'' is a 1979 American comedy film directed by Michael Schultz, starring ([[AllStarCast among others]]) Creator/RichardBenjamin, James Coco, Creator/ScatmanCrothers, Creator/RuthGordon, Creator/ClorisLeachman, Creator/CleavonLittle, Creator/RoddyMcDowall, Creator/RobertMorley, Creator/RichardMulligan, and Tony Randall.

The plot centers around, well, ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Specifically, a ScavengerHunt arranged by the late game inventor Milton Parker (Creator/VincentPrice) for the $200 million in his will. There are five teams, consisting of Mr. Parker's servants, led by cook Henri (Coco) and valet Jenkins ([=McDowall=]); his greedy widowed sister Mildred (Leachman), with her dumb son Georgie and their AmoralAttorney Stuart Selsome (Benjamin); his son-in-law Henry Motley (Randall) and his four kids; his nephews [[SiblingTeam Kenny and Jeff Stevens]]; and cab driver Marvin Dummitz (Mulligan). HilarityEnsues.

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''Scavenger Hunt'' is a 1979 comedy film directed by Michael Schultz and starring -- [[AllStarCast among others]] -- Creator/RichardBenjamin, James Coco, Creator/ScatmanCrothers, Creator/RuthGordon, Creator/ClorisLeachman, Creator/CleavonLittle, Creator/RoddyMcDowall, Creator/RobertMorley, Creator/RichardMulligan, and Tony Randall.

The plot centers around, well, ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Specifically, a ScavengerHunt arranged by the late game inventor Milton Parker (Creator/VincentPrice) for the $200 million in his will. There are five teams consisting of Mr. Parker's servants, led by cook Henri (Coco) and valet Jenkins ([=McDowall=]); his greedy widowed sister Mildred (Leachman), with her dumb son Georgie and their AmoralAttorney Selsome (Benjamin); his son-in-law Henry Motley (Randall) and his four kids; his nephews [[SiblingTeam Kenny and Jeff Stevens]]; and cab driver Marvin Dummitz (Mulligan). HilarityEnsues.

The plot centers around, well, ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Specifically, a ScavengerHunt arranged by the late game inventor Milton Parker (Creator/VincentPrice) for the $200 million in his will. There are five teams consisting of Mr. Parker's servants, led by cook Henri (Coco) and valet Jenkins ([=McDowall=]); his greedy widowed sister Mildred (Leachman), with her dumb son Georgie and their AmoralAttorney Sellsome (Benjamin); his son-in-law Henry Motley (Randall) and his four kids; his nephews [[SiblingTeam Kenny and Jeff Stevens]]; and cab driver Marvin Dummitz (Mulligan). HilarityEnsues.

* AmoralAttorney: Mildred’s lawyer Stewart Sellsome is a greedy man who encourages her to cry and fake sympathy at the will reading and is quick to try and sabotage the other teams and seize other unfair advantages. Averted with Milton’s lawyer, and the executor of his estate, Charles Bernstein, who is scrupulous in his duties and contemptuously/bemusedly tells Sellsome that it’s hard for him to believe they're in the same profession.

* LoopholeAbuse: The various teams aren’t allowed to buy anything, but Sellsome calls several of his employees and gives them the scavenger hunt list so ''they'' can buy the stuff and then give it to him. Then, at the end [[spoiler:the security guard in the suit of armor staggers out of Mildred’s pile and into the Stevens, because while the rules prevent members of an opposing team from moving their items, there’s no rule against an “item” moving itself.]]

* MistakenForRacist: Sellsome, when he asks Jackson the African-American limo driver if “you people” (meaning the staff) have anything to eat.

* ScarilyCompetentTracker: PlayedForLaughs. Selsome steals a set of false teeth of an old Indian, who then proceeds to track his Cadillac across the paved streets of the city.

* ShoutOut: When Sellsome sees Milton’s grandchildren he quips “''Film/TheBadNewsBears'' break parole.”

* WeWinBecauseYouDidnt: At the end [[spoiler:The servants team observe at how far ahead of everyone else Mildred, Sellsome and George are, and decide to give the Stevens and Lisa everything in their pile in the hopes of letting them catch up and having someone else win. All of the other teams quickly follow suit. This is rewarded by the Stevens brothers and Lisa sharing the prize with them.]]

The plot centers around, well, ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Specifically, a ScavengerHunt arranged by the late game inventor Milton Parker (Creator/VincentPrice) for the $200 million in his will. There are five teams consisting of Mr. Parker's servants, led by cook Henri (Coco) and valet Jenkins ([=McDowall=]); his greedy widowed sister Mildred (Leachman) with her dumb son Georgie and their AmoralAttorney Sellsome (Benjamin); his son-in-law Henry Motley (Randall) and his four kids; his nephews [[SiblingTeam Kenny and Jeff Stevens]]; and cab driver Marvin Dummitz (Mulligan). HilarityEnsues.

The plot centers around, well, ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Specifically, a ScavengerHunt arranged by the late game inventor Milton Parker (Creator/VincentPrice) for the $200 million in his will. There are five teams consisting of Mr. Parker's servants, led by cook Henri (Coco) and valet Jenkins ([=McDowall=]); his greedy widowed sister Mildred (Leachman) with her dumb son Georgie and their AmoralAttorney Selsome (Benjamin); his son-in-law Henry Motley (Randall) and his four kids; his nephews [[SiblingTeam Kenny and Jeff Stevens]]; and cab driver Marvin Dummitz (Mulligan). HilarityEnsues.

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''Scavenger Hunt'' is a 1979 comedy film directed by Michael Schultz and starring, [[AllStarCast among others]], Creator/RichardBenjamin, James Coco, Creator/RuthGordon, Creator/ClorisLeachman, Creator/RoddyMcDowall, Creator/RichardMulligan, and Tony Randall.

The plot centers around, well, ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Specifically, a ScavengerHunt arranged by the late game inventor Milton Parker (Creator/VincentPrice) for the $200 million in his will. There are five teams consisting of Mr. Parker's servants led by cook Henri (Coco) and valet Jenkins ([=McDowall=]), his greedy widowed sister Mildred (Leachman) with her dumb son Georgie and their AmoralAttorney Selsome (Benjamin), son-in-law Henry Motley (Randall) and his four kids, nephews [[SiblingTeam Kenny and Jeff Stevens]], and cab driver Marvin Dummitz (Mulligan). HilarityEnsues.

* {{Megane}} {{Manchild}}: Georgie wears glasses and is rather wimpy and sulky despite being in his mid-twenties at least.