The Great Race

1965 film by Blake Edwards

For other uses, see The Great Race (disambiguation).

The Great Race

Theatrical release poster

Directed by| Blake Edwards
Screenplay by| Arthur A. Ross
Story by| Blake Edwards
Arthur A. Ross
Produced by| Martin Jurow
Starring| Jack Lemmon
Tony Curtis
Natalie Wood
Peter Falk
Keenan Wynn
Dorothy Provine
Arthur O'Connell
Vivian Vance
Cinematography| Russell Harlan
Edited by| Ralph E. Winters
Music by| Henry Mancini
Distributed by| Warner Bros.

Release date

* July 1, 1965 (1965-07-01)

Running time

| 160 minutes
Country| United States
Language| English
Budget| US$12 million
Box office| US$25,333,333[1]

The Great Race is a 1965 American Technicolor epic slapstick comedy film directed by Blake Edwards, starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, and Natalie Wood, written by Arthur A. Ross (from a story by Edwards and 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 US$12 million (equivalent to $98.36 million in 2020), making it the most expensive comedy film at the time.[2] The story was inspired by the actual 1908 New York to Paris Race.[3]

It is known for one scene that was promoted as "the greatest pie fight ever".[4] It was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning the Academy Award for Best Sound Effects.

## Plot

[edit]

The Great Leslie and Professor Fate are competing daredevils at the turn of the 20th century. Leslie is the classic hero archetype – always dressed in white, handsome, ever-courteous, enormously talented and successful. Leslie's nemesis, Fate, is the traditional melodramatic villain – usually dressed in black, sporting a black moustache and top hat, glowering at almost everyone, possessing a maniacal evil laugh, filled with grandiose plans to thwart the hero, and dogged by failure. Leslie proposes an automobile race from New York City to Paris and offers the Webber Motor Car Company the opportunity to build an automobile to make the journey. They design and build a new car for him, "The Leslie Special". Fate builds his own car, "The Hannibal Twin-8", complete with hidden devices of sabotage. Other car owners enter the race, including one owned by New York City's most prominent newspaper. Driving the newspaper's car is beautiful photojournalist Maggie DuBois, a vocal suffragist.

A seven-car race begins, but Fate's long-suffering sidekick Maximilian Meen has sabotaged four other cars (and his own, by mistake), leaving just three cars in the race. The surviving teams are Leslie with his loyal valet Hezekiah Sturdy, Maggie DuBois driving a Stanley Steamer by herself, and Fate and Max. The steamer car breaks down and Maggie accepts a lift in the Leslie Special. Fate arrives first at a refueling point, the small Western frontier town of Boracho.[5] A local outlaw named "Texas Jack" becomes jealous of the attraction to Leslie shown by showgirl Lily Olay and a saloon brawl ensues. Fate sneaks outside amidst the chaos, steals the fuel he needs, and destroys the rest. Leslie uses mules to pull his car to another refueling point, where Maggie tricks Hezekiah into boarding a train and handcuffs him to a seat, lying to Leslie that Hezekiah had quit and "wanted to go back to New York".

The two remaining cars reach the Bering Strait and park side by side in a blinding snowstorm. Keeping warm during the storm, Leslie and Maggie begin to see each other as more than competitors. Mishaps, including a polar bear in Fate's car, compel all four racers to warm themselves in Leslie's car. They awaken on a small ice floe which drifts into their intended Russian port, where Hezekiah is waiting for Leslie, who in turn casts off Maggie for deceiving him. Maggie is snatched by Fate, who drives off in the lead.

After driving across Asia, both cars enter the tiny kingdom of Carpania, whose alcoholic and foppish Crown Prince Friedrich Hapnick is the spitting image of Professor Fate. Plotters under the leadership of Baron Rolfe von Stuppe and General Kuhster kidnap the Prince, Fate, Max, and Maggie. Max escapes and joins Leslie to rescue the others. Fate is forced to masquerade as the Prince during the coronation so that the rebels can gain control of the kingdom. Leslie and Max overcome Von Stuppe's henchmen and confront Von Stuppe. Following a climactic sword fight with Leslie, Von Stuppe attempts escape by leaping to a waiting boat, but bursts the hull and sinks it. Leslie and Max return the real Prince to the capital in time to defeat Kuhster's plan for a military coup. Fate, still masquerading as Prince Hapnick, takes refuge in a bakery but falls into a huge cake. A pie fight ensues involving the racers, the Prince's men and the conspirators. The five racers, covered in pie filling, depart Carpania with King Friedrich's best wishes.

As the racers leave Pottsdorf (with Maggie now back in Leslie's car), it becomes a straight road race to Paris. Nearing Paris, Leslie and Maggie have a spirited argument regarding the roles of men, women and sex in relationships. Leslie stops his car just short of the finish line under the Eiffel Tower to prove that he loves Maggie more than he cares about winning the race. Fate drives past to claim the winner's mantle, but becomes indignant that Leslie let him win. Fate demands a rematch: a race back to New York.

The return race commences, with newlyweds Leslie and Maggie now a team. Fate lets them start first, then orders Max to destroy their car with a small cannon. The shot misses the Leslie Special, instead knocking down the Eiffel Tower.

## Cast

[edit]

* Jack Lemmon as Professor Fate and Prince Friedrich Hapnick
* Tony Curtis as Leslie Gallant III, aka The Great Leslie
* Natalie Wood as Maggie DuBois
* Peter Falk as Maximillian Mean ("Max")
* Keenan Wynn as Hezekiah Sturdy
* Arthur O'Connell as Henry Goodbody
* Vivian Vance as Hester Goodbody
* Dorothy Provine as Lily Olay
* Larry Storch as Texas Jack
* Ross Martin as Baron Rolf von Stuppe
* Hal Smith as the Mayor of Boracho
* Denver Pyle as the Sheriff of Boracho
* Marvin Kaplan as Frisbee
* George Macready as General Kuhster
* Joyce Nizzari as Woman in West
* Ken Wales as Baron's Guard
* William Bryant as Baron's Guard
* Victor Adamson as Barfly
* Herman Belmonte as Barfly
* Frank Evans as Barfly
* Leon Alton as Townsman
* Bill Borzage as Townsman
* Kenner G. Kemp as Townsman
* Walter Bacon as Reporter
* George Holmes as Reporter
* King Mojave as Reporter
* Frank Kreig as Starter
* Frank Baker as Observer at the Start
* Shirley Blackwell as Observer at the Start
* Charles Cirillo as Observer at the Start
* Joseph Crehan as Observer at the Start
* Jeff Lawrence as Observer at the Start
* Paul Bryar as Policeman
* Bob Carson as Vice Chairman
* Noble Chissell as Auto Worker
* Joe Evans as Executive Board member
* Harry Harvey Sr. as Executive Board member
* Bob Herron as Palace Guard
* Charles Horvath as Texas Jack Henchman / Baker
* Mike Lally as Bettor
* J. Edward McKinle as Chairman

## Themes

[edit]

Director Blake Edwards based the film on the 1908 New York to Paris Race, very loosely interpreted. On February 12, 1908, the "Greatest Auto Race" began with six entrants, starting in New York City and racing westward across three continents. The destination was Paris, making it the first around-the-world automobile race. Only the approximate race route and the general time period were borrowed by Edwards in his effort to make "the funniest comedy ever".[6]

Edwards, a studious admirer of silent film, dedicated the film to film comedians Laurel and Hardy.[2] The Great Race incorporated a great many silent era visual gags, along with slapstick, double entendres, parodies, and absurdities.[4] The film includes such time-worn scenes as a barroom brawl, the tent of the desert sheik, a sword fight, and the laboratory of the mad scientist. The unintended consequences of Professor Fate's order, "Push the button, Max!" is a running gag, along with the spotless invulnerability of The Great Leslie.[2]

Edwards poked fun at later films and literature as well. The saloon brawl scene was a parody of the western film genre, and a plot detour launched during the final third of the film was a direct parody of the novel The Prisoner of Zenda and of the 1937 film version of the story, where a traveler is a lookalike for the king and stands in for him.[2]

## Production

[edit]

Because of the success of Edwards' previous films Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Pink Panther and A Shot in the Dark, the film's budget started at $6 million. Mirisch Productions initially financed the film for United Artists. The film's escalating costs led UA to drop the film, but the project was picked up by Warner Brothers.[7]

Edwards wanted Robert Wagner to play the leading man, but studio executive Jack L. Warner insisted on Tony Curtis, possibly because of Wood's recent divorce from Wagner. (Burt Lancaster was announced at one stage.)[8] Working with Warner, Curtis's new agent Irving "Swifty" Lazar negotiated US$125,000 for Curtis—more than Edwards and Lemmon, who were to receive US$100,000 each. After Warner signed the Curtis contract, Lazar reasoned that Edwards and Lemmon should make US$125,000, and Warner upped its compensation to match Curtis.[9]

Julie Andrews was first approached for the role of Maggie DuBois. Andrews having admired the work of Edwards wanted to work on the film, but was forced to bow out due to delays on The Sound of Music. Andrews would eventually marry Edwards and act in several of his films afterward.[10] Natalie Wood did not want to make The Great Race, but Warner talked her into it. Wood was unhappy with her career and her personal life, having been divorced from Robert Wagner in April 1962. Warner asked Curtis if he would give a percentage of his film royalties to Wood as an enticement, but Curtis refused. He said "I couldn't give her anything to make her want to do the movie."[11] Instead of more money, Warner promised Wood that if she completed The Great Race, she could star in Gavin Lambert's drama Inside Daisy Clover, a role she greatly wished to have.[11] Wood agreed, thinking that filming would be brief on Edwards' movie.

Shooting began on June 15, 1964.[11] Many of the sight gags for The Great Race were expensive to create, and the costs ballooned to US$12 million by the time the film was finished. Edwards, sometimes with Wood in tow, repeatedly visited Warner in his office to ask for more money. Warner approved nearly all of the requests. When it was released, it was the most expensive comedy ever filmed.[2]

Shooting ended in November 1964. During the five months of filming, Wood's unhappiness was not visible to the cast and crew, and her characterization of Maggie DuBois was playful. Her sister Lana Wood thought that Wood looked the prettiest she ever had, but Lana sensed that the film "was physically taxing" for Wood.[12] On Friday, November 27, the day after Thanksgiving, Wood wrapped the last bit of dialog work, then went home and swallowed a bottle of prescription pills. Groggy from the drugs, she called her friend Mart Crowley who took her to the hospital for emergency treatment.[12]

Music for the film was by Henry Mancini, and the costumes were designed by Edith Head. Production design, setting the period and augmenting the visual humor, was by Fernando Carrere who had designed The Great Escape and The Pink Panther for Blake Edwards. The unique slideshow-style title design was by Ken Mundie.[13]

### Custom cars

[edit]

Leslie Special from The Great Race at Stahls Automotive Collection Hannibal Twin-8 from The Great Race at Stahls Automotive Collection

The hero's white car, the Leslie Special, was built by Warner Brothers to resemble a Thomas Flyer, the car that won the 1908 New York to Paris Race.[14] According to the Petersen Automotive Museum, four "Leslie Specials" were built.[15] One of the four is at the Tupelo Automobile Museum in Tupelo, Mississippi, listed as a 1963 Leslie Special Convertible.[16]

Another of the four appears painted dark green in the 1970 Warner Brothers film The Ballad of Cable Hogue—the grille can be seen bearing the words Leslie Special, with the wheels and tires remaining their original white color. This vehicle shows up during the last 30 minutes of the movie carrying a lead character, and has a pivotal role at the end of the movie.

The villain's black car was named the Hannibal Twin-8; five were constructed. One is on display at the Petersen Automotive Museum, powered by a Volkswagen industrial engine. Another is at the Volo Auto Museum in Volo, Illinois. This model includes a prop "cannon" and a working smoke generator. The Volo museum describes the Hannibal Twin-8 as built by Warner Brothers at a cost of US$150,000 ($1,450,264 in 2023 dollars [17]), powered by a Corvair six-cylinder engine with three-speed manual transmission and six wheels. All four rear wheels are powered by a chain drive.[18]

Both vehicles were first on display at Movie World's Cars of the Stars Motor Museum in Buena Park, California until the museum closed in the late 1970s.[19] It was located adjacent to the Planes of Fame Museum.

### Pie fight

[edit]

The Technicolor scene for the pie fight in the royal bakery was filmed over five days.[2] The first pastry thrown was part of a large cake decorated for the king's coronation. Following this was the throwing of 4,000 pies,[2] the most pies ever filmed in a pie fight.[4] The scene lasts four minutes and 20 seconds and cost US$200,000 ($1,930,000 in 2023 dollars [17]) to shoot; US$18,000 ($170,000 in 2023 dollars [17]) just for the pastry.[2]

Colorful cream pies with fillings such as raspberry, strawberry, blueberry and lemon were used.[4] For continuity between days of shooting, the actors were photographed at the end of each day and then made up the following morning to have the same colorful appearance, the same smears of pie crust and filling.[4]

Edwards told the cast that a pie fight by itself is not funny, so to make it funny they would build tension by having the hero, dressed all in white, fail to get hit with any pies. He said "The audience will start yearning for him to get it".[4] Finally, the hero was to take a (white) pie in the face at "just the right moment".[4]

Shooting was halted while the actors took the weekend off. Over the weekend, the pie residue spoiled all over the scenery. When the actors returned Monday morning, the set stank so badly that the building required a thorough cleaning and large fans to blow out the sour air. The missing pie residue was recreated carefully with more pies, and shooting resumed.[4]

At first, the actors had fun with the pie fight assignment, but eventually the process grew wearisome and dangerous. Wood choked briefly on pie filling which hit her open mouth. Lemmon exaggerated that he got knocked out a few times; he said "a pie hitting you in the face feels like a ton of cement".[4] At the end of shooting, when Edwards called "cut!", he was barraged with several hundred pies that members of the cast had hidden, waiting for the moment.[4]

The pie fight scene paid homage to the early Mack Sennett practice of using a single thrown pie as comedic punctuation, but to a greater degree, it was a celebration of movie pie fights such as Behind the Screen (1916) with Charlie Chaplin; The Battle of the Century (1927) starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy; and In the Sweet Pie and Pie (1941) with the Three Stooges.[20] In his script for The Great Race, Edwards called for a "Battle of the Century–style pie fight". Although Edwards used 4,000 pies over five days, many of these were used as set dressing for continuity. Laurel and Hardy used 3,000 pies in only one day of shooting, so more are seen flying through the air. Leonard Maltin compared The Great Race pie fight to The Battle of the Century and determined that Laurel and Hardy's pacing was far superior, that the more modern film suffered from an "incomplete understanding of slapstick" while the 1927 pie fight remains "one of the great scenes in all of screen comedy."[21]

## Reception

[edit]

The Great Race was generally not well-received upon release and critical assessment was mostly negative, making it the first notable failure for director Edwards. Most critics attacked its blatant and overdone slapstick humor and its lack of substance. It also suffered from comparisons with another race-themed "epic comedy" of 1965, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines. Film critic Richard Schickel wrote that, although the film "bumps along very pleasantly for the most part", Edwards failed at his attempt to recreate the slapstick atmosphere of a Laurel and Hardy comedy.[22] Schickel felt that Wood was "hopelessly miscast", and that the energies of Lemmon and Curtis did not quite make the slapstick work.[22] Maltin wrote that Wood "never looked better" and that the film's comedy sometimes worked but was otherwise forced: "a mixed bag".[23] On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 72% based on 25 reviews, with an average score of 6.00/10.[24]

Despite earning theatrical rentals of over $11.4 million in the United States and Canada, due to its high cost, it caused a loss to the studio.[25]

### Awards and nominations

[edit]

Award  | Category  | Nominee(s)  | Result  | Ref.

|
|
|
|

Academy Awards | Best Cinematography – Color | Russell Harlan | Nominated  | [26]
Best Film Editing | Ralph E. Winters | Nominated
Best Song | "The Sweetheart Tree"
Music by Henry Mancini;
Lyrics by Johnny Mercer | Nominated
Best Sound | George Groves | Nominated
Best Sound Effects | Treg Brown | Won
Golden Globe Awards | Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Nominated  | [27]
Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Jack Lemmon | Nominated
Best Original Score – Motion Picture | Henry Mancini  | Nominated
Best Original Song – Motion Picture | "The Sweetheart Tree"
Music by Henry Mancini;
Lyrics by Johnny Mercer  | Nominated
Golden Reel Awards | Best Sound Editing – Feature Film | Won[a] |
Laurel Awards | Top Comedy  | Nominated  |
Top Male Comedy Performance  | Jack Lemmon  | Nominated
Top Song  | "The Sweetheart Tree"
Music by Henry Mancini;
Lyrics by Johnny Mercer  | 5th Place
Moscow International Film Festival | Grand Prix  | Blake Edwards | Nominated  | [28]
Silver Prize  | Won
Saturn Awards | Best DVD Classic Film Release | Nominated  | [29]
Writers Guild of America Awards | Best Written American Comedy | Arthur A. Ross | Nominated  | [30]

## Soundtrack

[edit]

Before the film was released, the soundtrack was re-recorded in Hollywood by RCA Victor Records for release on vinyl LP. Henry Mancini spent six weeks composing the score, and the recording involved some 80 musicians.[31] Mancini collaborated with lyricist Johnny Mercer on several songs including "The Sweetheart Tree", a waltz released as a single. The song plays on along the film as the main theme without chorus (except in the entr' acte) and it was performed onscreen by Natalie Wood with the voice dubbed by Jackie Ward (uncredited).[32] It was nominated for but did not win an Oscar for best song. The full track listing is:

* "He Shouldn't-A, Hadn't-A, Oughtn't-A Swang on Me" – Mancini/Mercer
* Performed by Dorothy Provine
* "Buffalo Gals" – Traditional Western song performed by the chorus girls in Boracho saloon, with different lyrics and a middle section, for a 1900s atmosphere
* "The Sweetheart Tree" (chorus) – Mancini
* "The Royal Waltz" – Mancini
* "Great Race March" – Mancini
* "They're Off!" – Mancini
* "Push the Button, Max!" (Professor Fate's theme) – Mancini
* "The Great Race March" – Mancini
* "Cold Finger" – Mancini
* "Music to Become King By" – Mancini
* "Night, Night, Sweet Prince" – Mancini
* "The Pie in the Face Polka" – Mancini
* "The Desert Song"
* Music by Sigmund Romberg
* "It Looks Like a Big Night Tonight"
* Music by Egbert Van Alstyne
* "Big Night Tonight"
* "Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565"[33][34]
* Written by Johann Sebastian Bach
* "Tales from the Vienna Woods"
* Written by Johann Strauss
* "The Beautiful Blue Danube"
* Written by Johann Strauss

## Adaptations

[edit]

Slightly in advance of the film's release, as was the custom of the era, a paperback novelization of the film was published by Dell Books. The author was renowned crime and western novelist Marvin H. Albert.

The novelization, based on the screenplay rather than the finished film, differs from the film in various aspects. In the novel, the country of Carpania is called Ruritania (as in Hope's Prisoner of Zenda), Keenan Wynn's character is called Jebediah (not Hezekiah) and stays behind in Ruritania, having fallen in love with a local noblewoman. The pie fight is missing, and the drivers are chased by cowboys (rather than native Americans) before arriving in Boracho. A few minor changes concern Leslie's courting of Maggie Dubois: in the novelization, it's she who suggests sharing the blanket in the snowstorm, and she also gets to drive the Leslie Special when Leslie has his arm in a sling. Scenes not included in the film include: a rainstorm, Fate's car sinking in a river, and a more extended stay in Russia (mirroring the Boracho episode).[35]

* Dell Movie Classic: The Great Race (March 1966)[36][37]

## Legacy

[edit]

The film was a major influence on Wacky Races, a Hanna-Barbera cartoon series.[38] The film's characterizations were rather cartoonish. Furthermore, film editor and sound-effects man Treg Brown, who worked on many classic Warner Brothers cartoons, worked on this film. Brown's sound design won the film an Oscar.[39] In his Top 10 Favorite Comedies, Doug Walker cited Jack Lemmon's performance as Professor Fate as a major influence for his Nostalgia Critic persona.

## See also

[edit]

* Monte Carlo or Bust!, aka Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies (1969)

## Notes

[edit]

1. ^ Tied with Von Ryan's Express.

## References

[edit]

1. ^ "The Great Race, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
2. ^ a b c d e f g h Wasson, Sam (2009). "The Great Race (1965)". A splurch in the kisser: the movies of Blake Edwards. Wesleyan Film. Wesleyan University Press. pp. 98–108. ISBN 978-0-8195-6915-8.
3. ^ Evans, Art (2011-09-28). "The Greatest Race – 1908 New York to Paris". sportscardigest.com. Archived from the original on 29 November 2011. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Zeitlin, David (July 9, 1965). "Greatest Pie Fight Ever". Life. Vol. 59, no. 2\. pp. 84–88. Retrieved July 7, 2011.
5. ^ A misspelling of the Spanish word Borracho (drunk).
6. ^ "Movie Gurus – The Movie Review Community". movie-gurus.com.
7. ^ p.239 Mirisch, Walter I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History Univ of Wisconsin Press, 27/02/2008
8. ^ Scheuer, Philip K. (July 8, 1963). "The American Girl' Seen Lost to Films: Males Dominate Producer Jurow Mourns: Tells Plans". Los Angeles Times. p. D13.
9. ^ Curtis, Tony; Golenbock, Peter (2008). American Prince: A Memoir. Random House Digital. pp. 249–250. ISBN 978-0-307-40849-5.
10. ^ Andrews, Julie (2019). Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years. Hachette Books. p. 61\. ISBN 9780316349239.
11. ^ a b c Finstad, Suzanne (2009). Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood. Random House Digital. p. 297\. ISBN 978-0-307-42866-0.
12. ^ a b Finstad, 2009, p. 299
13. ^ "The Great Race". www.artofthetitle.com.
14. ^ Bowers, Jesse (2010-12-15). "Just a car guy : In the movie "The Great Race" you may have liked the "Leslie Special" ... but did you think they'd ever put it in another movie? I'm 1st to notice". Justacarguy.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2014-06-10.
15. ^ "1965 Hannibal 8". Petersen Automotive Museum. Archived from the original on 5 July 2010. Retrieved 2014-08-25.
16. ^ "Tupelo Automobile Museum". Tupeloautomuseum.com. Archived from the original on February 15, 2018. Retrieved 2014-06-10.
17. ^ a b c 1634–1699: McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1800–present: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–". Retrieved February 29, 2024.
18. ^ "Volo Auto Museum:: 1964 HANNIBAL 8 PROFESSOR FATE THE GREAT RACE MOVIE CAR COLLECTION – Used Inventory". Volocars.com. Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-06-10.
19. ^ "Movieworld – Cars of the Stars | Orange County Memories". Octhen.com. 2008-02-17. Retrieved 2014-06-10.
20. ^ Everson, William K. (1967). "The Battle of the Century". The complete films of Laurel & Hardy. Citadel Press. p. 55\. ISBN 0-8065-0146-4.
21. ^ Maltin, Leonard (1970). Movie comedy teams (2 ed.). New American Library. p. 19.
22. ^ a b Schickel, Richard (September 17, 1965). "A $12 Million Romp in Hollywood's Attic". Life. p. 8. Retrieved July 7, 2011.
23. ^ Maltin, Leonard (2008). Leonard Maltin's 2009 Movie Guide. Penguin. p. 554. ISBN 978-0-452-28978-9.
24. ^ The Great Race at Rotten Tomatoes
25. ^ Beaupre, Lee (May 15, 1968). "Rising Skepticism On Stars". Variety. p. 1.
26. ^ "The 38th Academy Awards (1966) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved September 4, 2011.
27. ^ "The Great Race – Golden Globes". HFPA. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
28. ^ "4th Moscow International Film Festival (1965)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 2013-01-16. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
29. ^ Phillips, Jevon (March 6, 2003). "'Towers,' 'Report' top Saturn nominees". Variety. Retrieved March 6, 2003.
30. ^ "Awards Winners". Writers Guild of America. Archived from the original on 2012-12-05. Retrieved 2010-06-06.
31. ^ "RCA to Handle LP Soundtrack From 'Race'". Billboard. Hollywood. May 22, 1965. p. 10. Retrieved July 7, 2011.
32. ^ "Full cast and crew for The Great Race (1965)". IMDb. Retrieved July 7, 2011.
33. ^ Blake Edwards (Director) (1965). The Great Race (Videotape). Burbank, California: Warner Brothers Home Video, Inc. Event occurs at 0:37:46-0:40:55. ISBN 0-7907-0543-5.
34. ^ "The Great Race Soundtrack". IMDb. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
35. ^ Albert, Marvin H. (1965). The Great Race. New York: Dell.
36. ^ Dell Movie Classic: The Great Race at the Grand Comics Database
37. ^ Dell Movie Classic: The Great Race at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
38. ^ "It's the Wacky Races!". John V. Schmidt. Archived from the original on May 16, 2011. Retrieved 2014-08-25.
39. ^ "The 38th Academy Awards (1966) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-08-24.

## External links

[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Great Race.

Wikiquote has quotations related to The Great Race.

* The Great Race at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
* The Great Race at IMDb
* The Great Race at the TCM Movie Database
* The Great Race at AllMovie

* v
* t
* e

Films directed by Blake Edwards

* Bring Your Smile Along (1955)
* He Laughed Last (1956)
* Mister Cory (1957)
* The Perfect Furlough (1958)
* This Happy Feeling (1959)
* Operation Petticoat (1959)
* High Time (1960)
* Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
* Experiment in Terror (1962)
* Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
* The Pink Panther (1963)
* A Shot in the Dark (1964)
* The Great Race (1965)
* What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966)
* Gunn (1967)
* The Party (1968)
* Darling Lili (1970)
* Wild Rovers (1971)
* The Carey Treatment (1972)
* The Tamarind Seed (1974)
* The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
* The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
* Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)
* 10 (1979)
* S.O.B. (1981)
* Victor/Victoria (1982)
* Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)
* Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)
* The Man Who Loved Women (1983)
* Micki & Maude (1984)
* A Fine Mess (1986)
* That's Life! (1986)
* Blind Date (1987)
* Sunset (1988)
* Justin Case (1988)
* Skin Deep (1989)
* Peter Gunn (1989)
* Switch (1991)
* Son of the Pink Panther (1993)

* v
* t
* e

Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda (1894)

Books|

* The Prisoner of Zenda
* The Heart of Princess Osra
* Rupert of Hentzau

Adaptations|

* The Prisoner of Zenda (1913 film)
* The Prisoner of Zenda (1915 film)
* Rupert of Hentzau (1915 film)
* The Prisoner of Zenda (1922 film)
* Rupert of Hentzau (1923 film)
* The Prisoner of Zenda (1937 film)
* The Prisoner of Zenda (1952 film)
* Rupert of Hentzau (1957)
* Jhinder Bondi (1961)
* Rupert of Hentzau (TV series) (1964)
* The Prisoner of Zenda (1979 film)
* Prisoner of Zenda (1988 film)
* Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (2015)

See also|

* Ruritania
* The Great Race (1965 film)
* Royal Flash (1970 novel)
* Royal Flash (1975 film)
* "The Prisoner of Benda" (2010 episode of Futurama)

* v
* t
* e

Academy Award for Best Sound Editing

Sound Effects
1963–1967|

* Walter Elliott \- It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
* Norman Wanstall \- Goldfinger (1964)
* Treg Brown \- The Great Race (1965)
* Gordon Daniel \- Grand Prix (1966)
* John Poyner \- The Dirty Dozen (1967)

Sound Effects Editing
1982–1999|

* Charles L. Campbell and Ben Burtt \- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
* Jay Boekelheide \- The Right Stuff (1983)
* Kay Rose \- The River (1984)
* Charles L. Campbell and Robert Rutledge \- Back to the Future (1985)
* Don Sharpe \- Aliens (1986)
* Stephen Hunter Flick and John Pospisil \- RoboCop (1987)
* Charles L. Campbell and Louis Edemann \- Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
* Ben Burtt and Richard Hymns \- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
* Cecelia Hall and George Watters II \- The Hunt for Red October (1990)
* Gary Rydstrom and Gloria Borders \- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
* Tom McCarthy and David E. Stone \- Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
* Gary Rydstrom and Richard Hymns \- Jurassic Park (1993)
* Stephen Hunter Flick \- Speed (1994)
* Lon Bender and Per Hallberg \- Braveheart (1995)
* Bruce Stambler \- The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
* Tom Bellfort and Christopher Boyes \- Titanic (1997)
* Gary Rydstrom and Richard Hymns \- Saving Private Ryan (1998)
* Dane Davis \- The Matrix (1999)

Sound Editing
2000–2019|

* Jon Johnson \- U-571 (2000)
* George Watters II and Christopher Boyes \- Pearl Harbor (2001)
* Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn \- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
* Richard King \- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
* Michael Silvers and Randy Thom \- The Incredibles (2004)
* Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn \- King Kong (2005)
* Bub Asman and Alan Robert Murray \- Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
* Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg \- The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
* Richard King \- The Dark Knight (2008)
* Paul N. J. Ottosson \- The Hurt Locker (2009)
* Richard King \- Inception (2010)
* Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton \- Hugo (2011)
* Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers \- Skyfall / Paul N. J. Ottosson \- Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
* Glenn Freemantle \- Gravity (2013)
* Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman \- American Sniper (2014)
* Mark Mangini and David White \- Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
* Sylvain Bellemare \- Arrival (2016)
* Richard King and Alex Gibson \- Dunkirk (2017)
* John Warhurst and Nina Hartstone \- Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
* Donald Sylvester \- Ford v Ferrari (2019)

Authority control databases |

* MusicBrainz release group
* MusicBrainz work

|

*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template