The Great Race

Name: The Great Race
Released: 1965-10-22
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Peter Falk, Keenan Wynn

The Great Race

UR
2h 40m
1965

72%

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Academy Award winner Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, and Natalie Wood star in a slapstick farce about a 22,000-mile road race from New York to Paris set in 1908. Dastardly, black-garbed Dr. Fate (Lemmon) dares the world's greatest hero, The Great Leslie (Curtis), to the race across the Wild West, through frozen Alaska and into the Kingdom of Carpania. Fate sets a series of nefarious traps for Leslie, but neither plans on the indefatigable suffragette Maggie DuBois--the object of both Leslie's and Fate's affection--to enter the race, determined to strike a blow for feminism.

Director:

Blake Edwards

Producer:

Martin Jurow

Writer:

Arthur Ross, Blake Edwards

Cast:

Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Peter Falk, Keenan Wynn, Arthur O'Connell, Vivian Vance, Dorothy Provine, Larry Storch, Ross Martin, Denver Pyle

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

72%

Reviews

Alternate Ending

Tim Brayton

If The Great Race flubs the "comedy" half of a comedy super-production, it's pretty good at the super-production half.

Here is a slapstick omnibus, spilling over with all the humor, sentiment and visual gags spawned during the adolescence of the flickers, a nostalgic Technicolored resume of yesteryear's screen fare.

A monumentally epic disaster...

June 25, 2017

FULL REVIEW

Classic Film and Television

Michael E. Grost

Comedy masterpiece, and one of the few films to look at votes for women.

June 22, 2017

FULL REVIEW