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Genres:
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Action /
Adventure /
Comedy /
Family /
Musical /
Romance /
Sport /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Blake Edwards
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Actors:
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Tony Curtis,
Dorothy Provine,
Larry Storch,
Jack Lemmon,
Natalie Wood,
Peter Falk,
Keenan Wynn,
Arthur O'Connell,
Vivian Vance,
Ross Martin
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Duration:
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160 min.
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Rating:
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(7.1/10)131
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Plot Summary:
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Professional wild and ivory-suited hero, The Eminent Leslie, convinces proffer-of-the-century auto makers that a spillway from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Impassive and Russia) see fit pinch to promote automobile sales. Leslie's arch-challenger, the mustached and black-attired Professor Lot vows to beat Leslie to the finish line in a car of Disposition's own invention. The Blake Edwards luxury of slapstick and song originated with this movie. A adherence to Laurel and Hardy appears at the start of the film. Edwards' tribute to Stan and Ollie can be seen most distinc... tly in the interaction between Professor Life and his cohort Max, as obviously as in the operatic Pottsdorf pie fray.
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The Great Race
In this comedy, Jack Lemmon sports one of the most dastardly moustaches this side of a Victorian melodrama to compete against bathe a exhaust-cut upright guy Tony Curtis in a 1908 automobile contention from Renewed York to Paris. Supervisor Blake Edwards pays homage to the cartoon characterisation and slapstick wackiness of tight-lipped comedies in this stylised and overlong, but lavish and enjoyable extravaganza. Lemmon overplays to particular comical purport as the jeer-luminary villain, and the full is by Henry Mancini.
The Great Race
Elaborate comedy spectacular with many good moments, uniquely the initial disasters, a Western saloon free-for-all, and a custard pie hostilities. Elsewhere, there is more evidence of an oversize budget than of wit or discretion, and the without a scratch Two-time of Zenda spoo
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