<P> Pike tries to get motorist Otto Meyer ( Phil Silvers ) to take him to Santa Rosita , but the greedy Meyer betrays him and races for the money on his own , leaving Pike stranded with only a little girl 's bike from his furniture van . An enraged Pike catches up with Meyer at a gas station and assaults him as the gas station owners ( Arnold Stang and Marvin Kaplan ) try to stop him . Meyer escapes in his car while Pike literally destroys the gas station . He then steals the station 's tow truck and takes off after Meyer . Pike meets up with Mrs. Marcus and Emmeline and picks them up . While in a town called Plaster City , Mrs. Marcus calls her devoted and powerfully built , but impulsive and dim - witted , son Sylvester ( Dick Shawn ) , who lives on Silver Strand Beach near Santa Rosita , to get the money for them , but misunderstanding and believing his mother is in trouble , he instead races to her in his car . </P>
<P> Pike tries to get motorist Otto Meyer ( Phil Silvers ) to take him to Santa Rosita , but the greedy Meyer betrays him and races for the money on his own , leaving Pike stranded with only a little girl 's bike from his furniture van . An enraged Pike catches up with Meyer at a gas station and assaults him as the gas station owners ( Arnold Stang and Marvin Kaplan ) try to stop him . Meyer escapes in his car while Pike literally destroys the gas station . He then steals the station 's tow truck and takes off after Meyer . Pike meets up with Mrs. Marcus and Emmeline and picks them up . While in a town called Plaster City , Mrs. Marcus calls her devoted and powerfully built , but impulsive and dim - witted , son Sylvester ( Dick Shawn ) , who lives on Silver Strand Beach near Santa Rosita , to get the money for them , but misunderstanding and believing his mother is in trouble , he instead races to her in his car . </P>
who played sylvester in it 's a mad mad mad mad world
who played sylvester in it 's a mad mad mad mad world
Dick Shawn
Dick Shawn