Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. Leslie's arch-rival, the mustached and black-attired Professor Fate vows to beat Leslie to the finish line in a car of Fate's own invention.... (Full plot summary below)
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Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. Leslie's arch-rival, the mustached and black-attired Professor Fate vows to beat Leslie to the finish line in a car of Fate's own invention.
Leave your thoughts about The Great Race.
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrIt's highly inventive, self-conscious camp, made in 1965, well before the genre wore itself out in superciliousness. |
| Classic Film and TelevisionMichael E. GrostComedy masterpiece, and one of the few films to look at votes for women. |
| eFilmCritic.comScott WeinbergAn amiable comedy full of chase, chase, fall-down, chase. |
| The New York TimesJ. HobermanNatalie Wood is on hand as a cheroot-smoking suffragist (with a phenomenal wardrobe), but the movie is largely powered by Lemmon’s energy, roaring like Jackie Gleason as the bombastic Professor Fate and later appearing as his double, the klutzy crown prince of a Ruritanian kingdom. |
| VarietyVariety StaffLemmon plays it dirty throughout and for huge effect. Curtis underplays for equally comic effect. Wood comes through on a par with the two male stars. |
| Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)Bob BloomJack Lemmon and Peter Falk save this overblown comedy that tries too hard to be too slapstick. |
| User ReviewEric CProbably one the best film ever!!!! Blake EDWARDS is perfectly using the famous Curtis/Lemmon couple... |
| User ReviewSanteri KExtremely funny slapstick comedy about two masters-on-their-own-field who are racing around the world. |
| User ReviewLuke Cgreat film, the way cinema should be. Jack Lemmon Always the best actor to play the lead villian. |
| User ReviewMadison Mi luv this movie it is like one of my favorite old movies! |
