Watch The Great Race (1965) Free Online

Release Date: 1965

Cast: Vivian Vance, Natalie Wood, Marvin Kaplan, Dorothy Provine, Ross Martin, Jack Lemmon, Arthur O'Connell, George Macready, Peter Falk, Tony Curtis, Larry Storch, Keenan Wynn

Categories: Movies, Action, Slapstick, Ensemble Film, Adventure Comedy, Costume Adventure, Comedy, Adventure, Family, Musical, Romance Film, Sports, Parody

The Great Race is a 1965 slapstick comedy film starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, and Natalie Wood, directed by Blake Edwards, written by Blake Edwards and Arthur A. Ross, and with music by Henry Mancini and cinematography by Russell Harlan. The supporting cast includes Peter Falk, Keenan Wynn, Arthur O'Connell and Vivian Vance. The movie cost $12 million, making it the most expensive comedy film at the time. Despite the film not being a box office or financial success at the time of release, these days it is now noted as one of Wood's prettiest screen appearances, and for one scene that... MORE

The Great Race is a 1965 slapstick comedy film starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, and Natalie Wood, directed by Blake Edwards, written by Blake Edwards and Arthur A. Ross, and with music by Henry Mancini and cinematography by Russell Harlan. The supporting cast includes Peter Falk, Keenan Wynn, Arthur O'Connell and Vivian Vance. The movie cost $12 million, making it the most expensive comedy film at the time. Despite the film not being a box office or financial success at the time of release, these days it is now noted as one of Wood's prettiest screen appearances, and for one scene that was promoted as "the greatest pie fight ever." The Great Leslie (Tony Curtis) is the classic hero in white, handsome, courteous, talented, and successful. Professor Fate (Jack Lemmon) is the villain, Leslie's nemesis, dressed in black and dogged by failure. Leslie proposes an automobile race from New York to Paris, to prove a new car, the Leslie Special. Fate builds his own race vehicle, the Hannibal Twin-8, complete with hidden devices of sabotage. Others enter cars in the race, including New York City's most prominent newspaper. Driving the newspaper's car is beautiful photojournalist Maggie LESS