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The Great Race (1965)
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Comedy about an early 20th century car race across three continents. Director:Blake Edwards |
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Cast
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| Jack Lemmon | ... |
Professor Fate
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Crown Prince Frederick Hoepnick
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| Tony Curtis | ... | ||
| Natalie Wood | ... | ||
| Peter Falk | ... |
Maximilian Meen
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| Keenan Wynn | ... | ||
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Arthur O'Connell | ... | |
| Vivian Vance | ... | ||
| Dorothy Provine | ... | ||
| Larry Storch | ... | ||
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Ross Martin | ... | |
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George Macready | ... | |
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Marvin Kaplan | ... | |
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Hal Smith | ... | |
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Denver Pyle | ... |
Sheriff
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William Bryant | ... |
Baron's Guard
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Storyline
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. The Blake Edwards style of slapstick and song originated with this movie. A dedication to Laurel and Hardy appears at the beginning of the film. Edwards' tribute to Stan and Ollie can be seen most clearly in the interaction between Professor Fate and his cohort Max, as well as in the operatic Pottsdorf pie fight. Written by Jeanne Baker <jbaker@erim.org>
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Budget:
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Maggie DuBois: Professor...
Professor Fate: Shut up!
Max: I don't know the language.
Professor Fate: Well, get the dictionary!
Max: Dictionary. Right.
[Max flips through the pages]
Max: I got it, I got it.
Professor Fate: What is it, what is it?
Max: [frowns] I can't pronounce it.
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Words by Johnny Mercer
Music by Henry Mancini
Performed by Natalie Wood (dubbed by Jackie Ward) (uncredited) See more »
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Trivia
A moose head appears to hang on the wall of Professor Fate's (Jack Lemmon's) oddly-decorated dining room. However, when the Professor and Max run out the front door you can see that the rest of the moose stands in the foyer, with just his head poking through a hole in the wall. Ernie Kovacs originally did this gag on one of his TV shows. The fact that Jack Lemmon was a great friend of Kovacs' suggests that this wasn't a coincidence. In addition, the gag goes back at least as far as the 1946 Warner Bros.' cartoon "Kitty Kornered," in which a cat clinging to a moose head is being pulled by Porky Pig, and as a result pulls the entire moose out of the wall. See more »Goofs
Factual errors: When The Great Leslie is lifted by an airplane flown by Max, the plane resembles a Curtiss Headless Pusher. This plane was not designed and built until 1912, four years after the 1908 period of the movie. In July of 1908, Glenn Curtiss flew his June Bug design which was the first public exhibition of flight in the US. (The Wrights had not yet flown publicly.) The 1908 June Bug and the 1912 Headless Pusher bear little resemblance to each other. In reality, the June Bug was not as nimble and stable as the Pusher so it is understandable why the 1912 design was used in the movie. See more »Quotes
Professor Fate: What is the word for "friends"?Maggie DuBois: Professor...
Professor Fate: Shut up!
Max: I don't know the language.
Professor Fate: Well, get the dictionary!
Max: Dictionary. Right.
[Max flips through the pages]
Max: I got it, I got it.
Professor Fate: What is it, what is it?
Max: [frowns] I can't pronounce it.
[...]
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Crazy Credits
The closing credits are three simulated 'magic lantern' slides. The first one reads "Our Cast of Characters", and the following two list the main cast. However, Jack Lemmon is only credited as Professor Fate and not for his second role as Crown Prince Hapnik. See more »Soundtracks
"The Sweetheart Tree"Words by Johnny Mercer
Music by Henry Mancini
Performed by Natalie Wood (dubbed by Jackie Ward) (uncredited) See more »
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