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The Great Race
The movie with 20,000-mile or one-million-laughs guarantee!
The movie with 20,000-mile or one-million-laughs guarantee!
Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance - 1965
7.2
75%
71
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.
Director:
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Details

Rated:
Passed
Runtime:
160 min
Release date:
1 Jul 1965
Country:
US
Languages:
English, Italian
Budget:
$12,000,000
Revenue:
$25,333,333
Awards:
Won 1 Oscar. 3 wins & 14 nominations total

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
Lemmon 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.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
6 May 2008
fresh:
It's highly inventive, self-conscious camp, made in 1965, well before the genre wore itself out in superciliousness.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
1 Jan 2000
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