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
The Great Race
The movie with 20,000-miles or one-million-laughs guarantee!
1965 · 2h 40m · Passed
Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Directed by
Blake Edwards
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The Great Race
Overview
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.
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75%
Tomatometer
Fresh
It's highly inventive, self-conscious camp, made in 1965, well before the genre wore itself out in superciliousness.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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