The film takes us back to the early days of old automobiles , a time when there were hundreds of designers rolling out hand-crafted masterpieces fondly called 'motor cars' . The script involves an around-the-world motor car race , organizing an international air race across the English Channel , participants must contend with trickers , cheaters , as well as national rivalries . With good-looking, well-mannered Great Leslie (Tony Curtis) , representing bravery and always impeccably dressed in white . He is the playboy adventurer and motor car enthusiast who has entered the race with a sporty white roadster , being accompanied by his helper Hezekiah Sturdy (Keenan Wynn) . Great Leslie opens doors and stops to help a lady , even if it happens to be in the middle of a race . While bumbling Professor Fate (Jack Lemmon) is the villain and Grand Leslie's fiercest opponent, dressed of course all in black with a botcher sidekick (Peter Falk) . They use of some primitive but effective technology , though things go wrong , meaning they need to be first at the finish line . And fiercy suffragette Maggie (Natalie Wood) who's not averse to using her feminine wiles to take advantage . Through the race, they come across quite a few adventures , incidents , and obstacles . But being a long race with much interaction between the racers , their mindsets and priorities may change based on their time together . The great laugh show of all all time ¡ Total laughter ! The funniest motion picture ever made...about the most remarkable auto race ever!. New York to Paris via the Wild West, Alaska, Russia, the baronial halls of Europe, to the Eiffel Tower...with 1000 hair-raising adventures and 1001 roof-raising laughs along the way. From the producers of "My Fair Lady" in the same magnificent medium of Super Panavision "70" and Technicolor. Cost 14 Million Dollars to Make and for Laughs Alone Worth Every Cent of It. The movie with 20,000-mile or one-million-laughs guarantee!
An amusing and funny movie in which an international career takes place from New York to Paris joining a dastardly villain , a noble hero , a spirited suffragette among the competitors . "The Great Race" is a vintage slapstick and slashdash adventure Including a lot of incidents as saloon brawls , a confrontation with a feisty polar bear , pie fights and court intrigue in ¨The prisoner of Zenda¨ wake . Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon (in a double role as Professor Fate/Crown Prince Frederick Hoepnick) are reunited again , this time with Blake Edwards at the wheel of this epic and breathtaking farce . This is an attractive and charming picture , paying tribute to great silent stars : Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton and in ¨Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes¨style . Overly long and completely fun movie in which the likeable couple formed by Jack Lemmon and Peter Falk stands out . Adding a large number of notorious secondaries , as follows : Arthur O'Connell , Keenan Wynn , Vivian Vance , Dorothy Provine, Larry Storch, Ross Martin , George Macready , Denver Pyle , among others.
Including the agreeable music of Henry Mancini including "The Sweetheat Tree" "Pie in the Face Polka" and many more , as well as colorful , brilliant cinematography by Russell Harlan. The motion picture was competently directed by Blake Edwards. Blake had some hit smashes with ¨Pink Panther¨ series who became him a world-wide celebrity , such as ¨A shot in dark¨ , ¨Return of pink panther , ¨Revenge of pink panther¨ , ¨Curse of Pink Panther¨ , ¨Pink Panther strikes again¨ , ¨Trail of Pink Panther¨ , ¨Son of Pink Panther¨ , among others . Since then , there have been many more hit-and-miss comedies , some wildly unsuitable vehicles for his second wife Julie Andrews as ¨The Tamarind seed¨ , ¨Darling Lili¨, ¨SOB¨ , ¨10¨ , ¨That's life¨ . His greatest hits were ¨The party¨ , the tranvestite comedy ¨Victor/Victoria¨ and of course the joyously ¨Breakfast at Tiffany's ¨. The flick will appeal to Tony Curtis , Jack Lemmon and Natalie Wood fans . This is arguably one of the Blake Edwards' best . This consistently entertaining comedy/adventure movie , it deserves 'Two thumbs up' .
An amusing and funny movie in which an international career takes place from New York to Paris joining a dastardly villain , a noble hero , a spirited suffragette among the competitors . "The Great Race" is a vintage slapstick and slashdash adventure Including a lot of incidents as saloon brawls , a confrontation with a feisty polar bear , pie fights and court intrigue in ¨The prisoner of Zenda¨ wake . Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon (in a double role as Professor Fate/Crown Prince Frederick Hoepnick) are reunited again , this time with Blake Edwards at the wheel of this epic and breathtaking farce . This is an attractive and charming picture , paying tribute to great silent stars : Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton and in ¨Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes¨style . Overly long and completely fun movie in which the likeable couple formed by Jack Lemmon and Peter Falk stands out . Adding a large number of notorious secondaries , as follows : Arthur O'Connell , Keenan Wynn , Vivian Vance , Dorothy Provine, Larry Storch, Ross Martin , George Macready , Denver Pyle , among others.
Including the agreeable music of Henry Mancini including "The Sweetheat Tree" "Pie in the Face Polka" and many more , as well as colorful , brilliant cinematography by Russell Harlan. The motion picture was competently directed by Blake Edwards. Blake had some hit smashes with ¨Pink Panther¨ series who became him a world-wide celebrity , such as ¨A shot in dark¨ , ¨Return of pink panther , ¨Revenge of pink panther¨ , ¨Curse of Pink Panther¨ , ¨Pink Panther strikes again¨ , ¨Trail of Pink Panther¨ , ¨Son of Pink Panther¨ , among others . Since then , there have been many more hit-and-miss comedies , some wildly unsuitable vehicles for his second wife Julie Andrews as ¨The Tamarind seed¨ , ¨Darling Lili¨, ¨SOB¨ , ¨10¨ , ¨That's life¨ . His greatest hits were ¨The party¨ , the tranvestite comedy ¨Victor/Victoria¨ and of course the joyously ¨Breakfast at Tiffany's ¨. The flick will appeal to Tony Curtis , Jack Lemmon and Natalie Wood fans . This is arguably one of the Blake Edwards' best . This consistently entertaining comedy/adventure movie , it deserves 'Two thumbs up' .