The Great Race (1965)
Genre: Comedy / Adventure
Duration: 160 minuten
Alternative title: Blake Edwards' The Great Race
Country:
United States
Directed by: Blake Edwards
Stars: Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood
IMDb score:
7,2 (21.420)
Releasedate: 1 July 1965
The Great Race plot
"The movie with 20,000-miles or one-million-laughs guarantee!"
The professional daredevil The Great Leslie convinces a group of car manufacturers that a race from New York to Paris will be good for car sales. His enemy, Professor Fate, plans to defeat Leslie in the race in a self-invented car.
Actors and actresses
Professor Fate / Crown Prince Frederick Hoepnick
The Great Leslie
Maggie Dubois
Max
Hezekiah Sturdy
Henry Goodbody
Hester Goodbody
Lily Olay
Texas Jack
Baron Rolfe Von Stuppe
Reviews & comments
Leland Palmer
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- 23787 messages
- 4904 votes
''Brandy! hahahahaaa! Throw more brandy!" Fantastic movie. Lemmon steals the show, especially when Crown Prince Hoepnick appears on the scene. That totally blown out, exaggerated shimmer works really well… and infectious. 'The Great Race' is full of memorable scenes. Of course the totally intoxicated Crown Prince, the cake-throwing scene, the fight in the saloon, but especially the ice floe! Melting, through stormy weather, quietly floating to Russia. Beautiful. Curtis is (again) a good opponent, Wood is really beautiful and plays her role driven by women's emancipation very nicely. The movie starts off slow, but gets better and better. Over time, the pace gets so hot and it's so much fun that you don't want this race to end. Incredibly fun movie.
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Movsin
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- 8286 messages
- 8442 votes
Slap stick avant la lettre. Not exactly my genre, but Blake Edwards provides a great film technically and Jack Lemmon plays a beautiful role.
We'll take the record-long cake battle with a smile.
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clubsport
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- 3890 messages
- 6993 votes
You are not talking about equal rights, you are talking about some conveniant feminine utopia that has all the advantages and no responsibilities.
But very rarely seen a film in which feminism (yes also the oldest variants) is described and filled in so aptly, and you do not expect that in a slapstick humor film, I don't understand why that feminism plot had to be so prominent.
But that should not spoil the fun, lemmon is on a roll and clearly has fun, the humor is amusing although it is not always successful.
The pie fight is nicely done and the final scenes through the streets of Paris look beautiful.
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