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THE GREAT RACE
U.S., 1965
Directed by Blake Edwards
Story by Blake Edwards and Arthur A. Ross
Starring Natalie Wood, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis
Approx. 160 min. 35mm.
“Centers on a New York to Paris road race (think about that for a while) between the Great Leslie, a white-suited, teeth-flashing Tony Curtis, and the unscrupulous Professor Fate — Jack Lemmon in a Mack Sennett mustache. Very funny; creatively vulgar.” – Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Reviews
“A big, expensive, whopping, comedy extravaganza [from a screen story by Blake Edwards and Arthur Ross], long on slapstick and near-inspired tomfoolery whose tongue-in-cheek treatment liberally sprinkled with corn frequently garners belly laughs.”
– Variety
“For here is a movie that is surely a mammoth comic strip on the screen — a cinematized funny paper that runs for two and a half bulging hours and is full of all sorts of situations that only the comics and old movies would dare to pose.”
– Bosley Crowther, The New York Times