(Max) "Hey professor rise n shine"... (Fate) RISE N SHINE ! .... when you rise you shine 😂😂😂 I love this movie and yes Peter Falk is a riot & Jack Lemmon is wonderful as Professor Fate !
I still think that's one of the most beautiful automobiles ever made. One of the four Leslie Specials sold for $112,000 at an auction in Tupelo in 2019.
And the "Great Race" itself was inspiresd by the race from New York to Paris which took place in 1908. Some of the cars actually looked similar, especially the white one.
The music in this scene is so great all the scenes with Professor Fate have this same music and it's so perfect for Fate it's a brilliant musical score.
Courtney Ellis I always thought that this was the best movie ever made. It has everything. Comedy, drama, romance, slapstick, great cast, great writing, amazing music and the biggest pie fight ever put to film. It is a masterpiece directed by a genius. They could never make a movie like this today. There is too many egos in Hollywood so you would never get a cast like this ever again. Plus there are very little original ideas coming out of Hollywood, and those are weak at best. The Great Race is hands down a fantastic movie for the entire family.
Love this movie.... just like you I grew up,watching this, me & my cousin would catch it every time it was on ! 😃😂 I never miss it when it's on & if I haven't seen it in awhile I'll play the copy my son's bought me many years ago 😆 I believe Professor Fate's car The Hannibal Twin 8 is in the Peterson museum in California ✌😎 I might watch The Great Race today ! I'll grab a drink & a few hundred pies and get ready for action 😁😀😅😃😂 You guys should check out this movie..... Those Magnificent Men In the Their Flying Machines ( 1965 ) ( Almost the same deal w/ airplanes ) London to Paris air race... crazy funny, The legend Benny Hill even pops in for a few quick laughs !
Got hooked on this movie as a kid and can't count the number of times I've watched it..... The number is in the 100's like 200, 300 😆 ( Love The Professor & Max ) 😃😂😁😀😅
1. "Just don't make me nervous! Just don't make me nervous!" (repeating it) as a harried cabbie with a full deck of nuts inside, in, "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" (Nov. 7, 1963 release). 2. "Here come the Marines!" --Max, in the car's rising above, blowing thick black smoke to confuse the enemies, in "The Great Race" (Jul. 1, 1965 release).
This is the best film to watch with the whole family. Comedy, yes. But also drama, adventure and romance. All wrapped up in the question that we've all asked ourselves... *_"What would Wile E. Coyote do?"_*
I love The Great Race! When I was very young, I saw it at Radio City Music Hall, probably around when it was first released. I think it may have been the second movie I ever saw in a theater, the first being Disney's 1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, but shown in the sixties.
We should preface this devious and sneaky plan to spy on and/or destroy the Leslie Special car was done while riding in a blimp device marked 'FATE' on the side in big letters. Professor Fate is about as cunning as he is vain, which...tends to cancel each other out. 😁
They don't make movies like that no more my God I miss those old times these movies a day too much profanity and they're not really funny unless they swear on them
This film was supposed to be a reunion of Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis, with the same hilarity they generated in "Some Like It Hot." Trouble was, they had virtually no scenes together in "Race," and the project suffered for it.
Jack Lemmon and Peter Falk are buried just a few meters from each other, and Natalie Wood is under 100 meters away. Lemmon's headstone simply reads *JACK LEMMON* and below that *in* , the joke being an implied "the ground."
Love these old comedies. The music, the exaggerated movements, sounds and expressions. Even the period "special effects" while crude by today's standards didn't detract from the scene, you know it's fake, but just don't care.
I noticed in his interview in the ACTORS STUDIO, Peter Falk was not asked about his role in THE GREAT RACE, the movie not being mentioned, it would leave me to believe he was not happy with the movie..?
This scene is a good example of signifying the contrasts between character. Tony Curtis plays a challenger who stands by his terms even if certain others don't see them the same way, while Jack Lemmon sells the schemer who goes to as much as entrepreneurial lengths for a less respectful outcome, which to him is more important than his legit achievements. Neither side see each other as more than contenders in the same cause. Then you see the lackey that Peter Falk cements, who is totally aware of his stance under Professor Fate but of nothing else. Regards, Samuel Farris.
The idea of Jack Lemon using a monocular Spyglass and Peter Falk using Binoculars is a bit droll, considering that Mr. Falk has a glass eye. I wonder if they did it this way on purpose as as an in-joke sight-gag.
I got my own copy for 2 ( was it $3.00?) - a plastic car model of the THOMAS FLYER, the American car in the REAL New York to Paris of 1908,this Webber car doesn't quite look like it, no, it didn't. have a hood, yes, the tires were white, but the rear tires had bicycle chains on them. This movie is very much a comedy farce, it doesn't tell about the hardships the cars REALLY went through. Besides the American and the German cars, the Italian car also reached Paris (about 2 months later).
