The film revolves around 'Smiler' Grogan, a former convict wanted by police in a robbery. This man has committed a serious robbery of a tuna plant 15 years ago and is now a fugitive. This fugitive man is on his way to a different route, the state highway 74, near Palm Springs, southern California. At that moment, five motorists stopped to help him.
Spencer Tracy, Sid Caesar, Mickey Rooney and host of good-old-fashioned-comedy chums cram in the action, but miss the laughs in this frantic bank caper comedy.
lives up to its intentions as an epic madcap farce, and it offers enough comic variation through the multiple characters and situations that it never feels overlong or monotonous
There's a documentary-like pleasure in watching so many legends of comedy share the screen... along with the disappointment of watching so many very funny people fail to be funny at all.