The Great Race The Great Race

Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. Leslie's arch-rival, the mustached and black-attired Professor Fate vows to beat Leslie to the finish line in a car of Fate's own invention.

Jack Lemmon Tony Curtis Natalie Wood Peter Falk Keenan Wynn Arthur O'Connell Vivian Vance Dorothy Provine Larry Storch Ross Martin George Macready Marvin Kaplan Hal Smith Denver Pyle William Bryant

action adventure comedy drama family thriller musical

160 mins   More details at IMDb / TMDb

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  • Loreano Tuccori

    Review by Loreano Tuccori ★★★

    Purely a guilty pleasure that takes me back to my childhood.

  • Francesc Te Ele

    Review by Francesc Te Ele ★★★

    Es excesivamente larga y aún así desaprovechan el tema de la vuelta al mundo al pasar demasiado tiempo en unos pocos países. La película tiene bajones de ritmo importantes que coinciden con algunas de esas largas paradas. Aunque lo compensan con otras como la de la pelea de cantina y la guerra de tartas. Toda la parte de la trama rusa hubiera sido un buen punto para recortar minutos pero se soporta bien con los papelones que hace Jack Lemmon.
    Mención especial a los coches, algunos son dignos de "Los autos locos".
    Así que: buen clásico de aventuras y humor pero si durara una hora menos sería mejor aún.

  • Melissa W

    Review by Melissa W ★★★★★

    Absolutely one of my favorite comedies. Perfect main cast (Jack Lemmon, Peter Falk, Tony Curtis, and Natalie Woods), fabulous supporting cast (Keenan Wynn, Dorothy Provine, Vivian Vance, Larry Storch, Marvin Kaplan, and Ross Martin), excellent script (Blake Edwards and Arthur Ross), excellent directing (Edwards), music (the great Henry Mancini), cinematography (Russell Harlan), Natalie Wood's costumes by Edith Head, and choreography by Hermes Pan (there's a wee bit of dancing). The DVD I have presents the entire movie complete with Overture, Intermission, and old-fashioned title cards that are a scream.

    Did I mention Jack Lemmon is in this? He has a double-role: he plays the villain, Professor Fate, and Crown Prince Fredrick of Potsdorf. Absolutely one of my favorite performances.

    Also…

  • krieg

    Review by krieg ★★★½

    Thanks for Wacky Races

  • Silent J

    Review by Silent J ★★★★★ 5

    God I am in love with this movie.
    Slowly becoming my favorite comedy. It's either this, Being There, Tootsie, or I Heart Huckabees.
    I usually say no comedy needs to be longer than 90 minutes.
    This is the only exception.
    I've been holding my ribs laughing for 2 1/2 hours straight.

  • Michael Schmidt

    Review by Michael Schmidt ★★★★½

    I loved this movie since I first saw it, which is more than thirty years ago. Now I saw it the first time together with the older one of the kids and it defnitely held up. Also the 9 year old had lots of fun and wishes for an instant rewatch together with his friend. That says a lot. And it leaves me grumbling, that they don't make this kind of movies anymore...

  • Tripp Burton

    Review by Tripp Burton ★★★½

    The era of the “epic comedy” has pretty much disappeared, and perhaps that is a good thing. While this bloated comedy is a lot of fun, and gives some great comedic set pieces to a lot of talented people, it is very hard to sustain laughs (especially of the gut-level kind that this film aims for) for 2 ½ hours, especially when the plot is as thin as this one. This film has a lot of dead time between big laughs, although Edwards paces the thing well enough that you are never left bored, just laughless for stretches at a time. Jack Lemmon is especially fun in a rare villainous role, and the visual pieces are fantastic.

  • Silent J

    Review by Silent J ★★★★★

    This was a huge surprise. One of the funniest films I've seen in a long time. Loved every minute of it and every minute I found myself laughing my ass off. It's very much like a live action Looney Tunes cartoon and as hard as it is to bring cartoonish humor into live action form, this film does a perfect job doing just that. It has all kinds of comedy in all forms. It's got great slapstick, great sight gags, great jokes (etc) and it manages to be downright hilarious at every turn and a lot of that has to do with the performances. Tony Curtis is really brilliant and entertaining as the stereotypical perfect man. Natalie Wood is beautiful…

  • KarthXLR

    Review by KarthXLR ★★★★½

    Excellent. Jack Lemmon's melodramatic role is incredibly entertaining and the film house the mother of all pie fights.