The Great Race

1965
G
2h 40m

ÉVALUATION IMDb

7,2/10

20 k

MA NOTE

Natalie Wood, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon in The Great Race (1965)

Trailer for this comedy starring Jack Lemon

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Parody Road Trip Satire Slapstick Action Adventure Comedy Family Romance Sport

Une grande course aventureuse qui oppose l'héroïque Leslie et le méprisable professeur Fate sur trois continents.Une grande course aventureuse qui oppose l'héroïque Leslie et le méprisable professeur Fate sur trois continents.Une grande course aventureuse qui oppose l'héroïque Leslie et le méprisable professeur Fate sur trois continents.

Director
- Blake Edwards
Writers
- Arthur A. Ross
- Blake Edwards
Stars

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

ÉVALUATION IMDb

7,2/10

20 k

MA NOTE

Director
- Blake Edwards
Writers
- Arthur A. Ross
- Blake Edwards
Stars

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

A remporté 1 oscar
- 3 victoires et 14 nominations au total

Anecdotes
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.

Gaffes
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.

Citations
[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!

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

Autres versions
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.

Connexions
Edited into Lo schermo a tre punte (1995)

Bandes originales
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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Some Like It Custard

Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, memorably paired in "Some Like It Hot", tried it again in "The Great Race". Natalie Wood was a reluctant addition, with a new biography of this actress repeating her displeasure with the film and its director. Peter Falk, not yet Columbo, rounded out a globetrotting quartet chasing first prize in the 1908 New York to Paris automobile race.

Much has been made of how the script's "Prisoner of Zenda" subplot slows the action. Yet these scenes shot in Salzburg have contributed several zingers to the stock of movie quotes floating around in general circulation. Someone must have liked the "Potzdorf" episode, as "More brandy!" and "Drat!

I never mix my pies!" remain among Jack Lemmon's most cited lines.

Surviving participants in the real-life 1908 competition did not care for this trashing of their personal history. I loved it on its first release way back when, and it remains a pleasant (if long) watch on cable TV and home video.