La carrera del siglo

Título original: The Great Race

1965
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2h 40min

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Natalie Wood, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon in La carrera del siglo (1965)

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Parody Road Trip Satire Slapstick Action Adventure Comedy Family Romance Sport

A principios del siglo XX, Leslie Gallant y su rival, el Profesor Fate, emprenden una carrera automovilística de Nueva York a París, mientras Maggie Dubois participa en la carrera para infor... Leer todoA principios del siglo XX, Leslie Gallant y su rival, el Profesor Fate, emprenden una carrera automovilística de Nueva York a París, mientras Maggie Dubois participa en la carrera para informar de cada paso de la misma.A principios del siglo XX, Leslie Gallant y su rival, el Profesor Fate, emprenden una carrera automovilística de Nueva York a París, mientras Maggie Dubois participa en la carrera para informar de cada paso de la misma.

Dirección
- Blake Edwards
Guionistas
- Arthur A. Ross
- Blake Edwards
Elenco

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Dirección
- Blake Edwards
Guionistas
- Arthur A. Ross
- Blake Edwards
Elenco

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Ganó 1 premio Óscar
- 3 premios ganados y 14 nominaciones en total

Trivia
The pie fight scene lasts only four minutes but took five days to shoot and is the longest pie fight sequence in movie history. At first, the cast had fun filming the pie fight scene, but eventually the process grew tiresome and dangerous. Natalie Wood choked briefly on a pie which hit her open mouth. Jack Lemmon got knocked out a few times: "A pie hitting you in the face feels like a ton of cement." At the end of shooting the sequence, when Blake Edwards called "Cut!" he was barraged with several hundred pies that members of the cast had hidden, waiting for that moment.

Errores
In the final sprint to Paris, Maggie's costume changes. Since her costume changes at a regular rate throughout the film, this was probably intentional.

Citas
[On a melting iceberg]
Leslie: [measures the base] 37 inches to go.
Fate: Oh, 37 inches to go. Huzzah! At the rate we've been melting, that's good for about one more week!
Leslie: You'd better keep it to yourself.
Fate: Oh, of course I'll keep it to myself.
[Leslie walks away]
Fate: [muttering] Until the water reaches my lower lip, and then I'm gonna mention it to SOMEBODY!

Créditos curiosos
Jack Lemmon is only credited as Professor Fate and not for his second role as Crown Prince Hapnik.

Versiones alternativas
The Great Race has been re-released in France in 1996. However, after the race starts, all scenes involving people from the newspaper in New York have been cut. The French authorities or distributors took them as a mockery of the French suffragette's, feminist's and women's lib movements.

Conexiones
Edited into Lo schermo a tre punte (1995)

Bandas sonoras
The Sweetheart Tree
Words by Johnny Mercer
Music by Henry Mancini
Performed by Natalie Wood (dubbed by Jackie Ward) (uncredited)
Robert Bain guitar accompanist (uncredited)

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The Greatest Epic Comedy

Although "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" was the first comedy to get the epic film treatment, "The Great Race" is in my opinion the best epic comedy. It's just a much funnier film with so many laughs in its first half that the more serious part dealing with the palace intrigues and the straight sword fight acts more as a breather for the viewer before it revs up again with the funniest pie fight of all time and the smashing (literally) finale. Jack Lemmon shows why he was probably the most versatile comic actor of the 50-60s next to Peter Sellers (this is a long ways from the Lemmon of "The Apartment" or "Irma La Douce"!). Peter Falk, a decade before "Columbo" is hysterical too, while Natalie Wood never looked more sexy (except for the last part of "Gypsy") than she does here.

They don't make this kind of simple comedy devoid of crudity any longer. That's what makes a film like "The Great Race" something to keep coming back to and enjoying again and again.