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Truly Great!
Whether you prefer comedy, romance, or just plain swashbuckling fun, "The Great Race" has it all. This film is one of the most enjoyable adventures I've ever had the pleasure to see.

Tony Curtis plays the famous Leslie --- The GREAT Leslie --- whose hair is always perfectly combed, whose clothes are always a pristine, unblemished white. He gets kissed by all the pretty ladies, and his teeth and eyes glint with the requisite *bling!* sound. His Houdini-style daredevil-dom has made him a famous man and his accomplishments make him formidable.

Enter the nemesis, Professor Fate (played by Jack Lemmon) --- a man who dresses in black, wears a sinister mustache...and whose schemes to outsmart The Great Leslie consistently fail.

When Leslie proposes a long race --- from New York to Paris --- Fate and his sticky sidekick Max gleefully enter, determined to beat Leslie at his own game.

Natalie Wood plays a determined sufragette eager to emancipate women from mental slavery --- "out of the kitchens, and off the pedestals!" She invades a newspaper office in order to secure a way of reporting the race from start to finish. Her own determined schemes get her entangled in the life of The Great Leslie in more ways than one!

And so, from New York to Paris, we follow our hero, heroine, and arch-enemy through many adventures, including a barroom brawl, a melting iceberg, a foreign prison, a duel with sabers, and the best pie fight in film history!

From the opening credits to the humorous ending, this film provides fun for anybody. Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood create good chemistry, Jack Lemmon is equally brilliant in BOTH his hilarious roles, and the supporting cast is fantastic. I highly recommend this film! You'll laugh your head off.

Scene For Scene, One Of The Funniest Movies Ever Made
Blake Edwards' sprawling 1965 comedy takes the premise of "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" and adds a twist to it. Though lacking the all star cast that that 1963 comedy had, "The Great Race" is every bit as funny and ranks up with "It's A Mad,Mad..." as one of the greatest slapstick comedies ever made.

Daredevil The Great Leslie (Tony Curtis) is loved by all: talented, handsome and kind, he is the ideal man for many woman and his stunts have made him a millionaire. Everyone loves him. Well, almost every one. Enter Leslie's arch nemesis, Professor Fate (Jack Lemmon). Along with his not very smart henchman (to put it mildly) Max (Peter Falk), Professor Fate will stop at nothing to top Leslie and become him. However, every attempt goes hilariously wrong. But he then hatches a scheme that he knows won't fail. He will complete against Leslie in a 20, 000 mile race from New York to Paris and beat him, thus winning the respect of the world. Also competing is beautiful suffragette newspaper reporter Maggie DuBois (Natalie Wood), who captures the eye of both Leslie and Fate. Everything culminates into a nonstop laugh riot, including the greatest pie fight in the history of entertainment.

"The Great Race" is a classic comedy that is guaranteed to make anyone laugh. I highly recommend it.

A good time was had by all.
This is one of those movies that is a joy to watch. Everybody involved was obviously enjoying themselve immensely. with the possible exception of Natalie Wood. So you should enjoy it too.

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