
A holiday-hating detective is forced to solve a murder — and save Christmas — with help from famous trainees who must improv their way through the case.

Two former bank employees, executive Dick Van Dyke, forced into early retirement by a computer, and guard Sid Caesar, unceremoniously dismissed before his pension comes due, concoct a computerized scheme to steal from the rich (i.e. the bank) and give to the poor with anonymous checks (money accessed from inactive accounts) to average do-gooders.

Dick Van Dyke
Max Shepherd

Sid Caesar
Sam Green

Shelley Hack
Leslie Phillips

William Prince
George Peterson

Christopher Murney
Warren Masterson

Ron Frazier
Garland Dean

Jack Gilpin
Chuck McCallister

Barton Heyman
Whitlow
Richard Caine
Husband
Cooper Cunningham
Deputy
Found Money is a comedy, crime, tv movie film released in 1983. Directed by Bill Persky, it stars Dick Van Dyke, Sid Caesar, Shelley Hack. Two former bank employees, executive Dick Van Dyke, forced into early retirement by a computer, and guard Sid Caesar, unceremoniously dismissed before his pension comes due, concoct a computerized scheme to steal from the rich (i.e. the bank) and give to the poor with anonymous checks (money accessed from inactive accounts) to average do-gooders.
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