The Great Race
The movie with 20,000-mile or one-million-laughs guarantee!
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DVD Details
- Documentary
- Theatrical Trailer
- Languages: English & French
- Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Korean
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 40 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 4, 2002
- Originally Released: 1965
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon & Natalie Wood | |
Performer: | Peter Falk, Keenan Wynn, Blake Edwards, Arthur O'Connell, Vivian Vance, Dorothy Provine, Larry Storch, Ross Martin & Marvin Kaplan | |
Directed by | Blake Edwards | |
Edited by | Ralph E. Winters | |
Screenwriting by | Arthur Ross | |
Composition by | Henry Mancini | |
Story by | Arthur Ross & Blake Edwards | |
Produced by | Martin Jurow | |
Director of Photography: | Russell Harlan |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1965 -
Best Sound Effects: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
Comedy masterpiece, and one of the few films to look at votes for women.
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Classic Film and Television
Rating: 3/5 --
Laughs aplenty! Lemmon is hilarious!
Tsunami Magazine
Rating: 3/4 --
Both panned and praised when it was released, this zany cross-continental romp zooms ahead full throttle for all of its 157 minutes.
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TV Guide
Rating: 1/4 --
A monumentally epic disaster...
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Reel Film Reviews
Rating: 4/5 --
Perfect family movie is fun from beginning to end.
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Common Sense Media
It's highly inventive, self-conscious camp, made in 1965, well before the genre wore itself out in superciliousness.
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Chicago Reader
This is one of those spectacular comedy star vehicles which is perfectly watchable on a wet Sunday afternoon but which, looked at from almost any other perspective, is just a waste of celluloid.
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Film4
Description by OLDIES.com:
Crank your engines! With a roar, sputter and pop (and more Academy Award-winning Best Sound Effects), drivers wheel westward in wacky turn-of-the-century autos for a New York-to Paris race. Ahead lie 20,000 miles, a barroom brawl, a sinking iceberg, 2,357 pies in the face and incalculable laughs.
Blake Edwards turns a marvelous cast loose on a round-the-world highway booby-trapped by some of the funniest screen gags ever. Jack Lemmon and Peter Falk are nasty Professor Fate and his dim henchman Max. Tony Curtis is their good-guy nemesis, the Great Leslie. And Natalie Wood is cheroot-puffing suffragette reporter Maggie DuBois. Zestily scored by Henry Mancini and ravishing in a new digital transfer with revitalized digital audio from restored elements, The Great Race is great fun!
Product Description:
A tribute to masters of slapstick Laurel and Hardy, Blake Edwards's spectacular farce stars Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, and Natalie Wood. In 1908 New York, the evil, black-clad Professor Fate (Lemmon) challenges the Great Leslie (Curtis), a heroic daredevil who wears only white, to a 22,000-mile New York-to-Paris race. As the race gets under way, Fate eliminates all the other contestants through nefarious means except for feminist Maggie Dubois (Wood). But when her car breaks down on its own, she's forced to ride with Leslie, who has his hands full trying to avoid being obliterated by the artillery-laden Hannibal 8 that carries Fate. After getting into a brawl in the wild West and riding an ice floe across the Bering Strait to Siberia, Fate kidnaps Maggie, and the racing teams make an extended soujourn in Carpania as Edwards parodies THE PRISONER OF ZENDA. Then the dastardly Baron von Shtuppe (Ross Martin) tries to take advantage of Fate's resemblance to their ruler, Prince Hapnick, to start a revolution. This enjoyable, out-of-control spectacle, loaded with hysterical sight gags and routines from the silent comedy era, features good work from Lemmon, Martin, and Peter Falk as Fate's henchman, Max. The film was the basis for the WACKY RACES animated children's series.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 2,109
- UPC: 085391109129
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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