The Great Race

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Summary: Be Careful you Idiot or you'll blow us all to kingdom come!
Review: This movie starring Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis is a reflection of the MAD magazine "Spy vs. Spy", wherein the constant daredevil antics of "The Great Leslie" are played out with attempts to foil by Jack Lemmon as "Professor Fate". It is turn of the century madness where invention and challenge were the entertainments of the era. Lemmon will have you laughing with his eccentric behavior and constant harassment of his sidekick Max, which my son has compared to two kids playing at imaginary adventures inside a clubhouse,as he pits himself as a perennial loser against the perfectionist performance of Tony Curtis as our purified hero. There are added attractions such as Natalie Wood and a great supporting cast including Ross Martin as the Baron. The film attempts to re-create the colorfulness of 1900 in the scenery and travels the globe in the process respective to the film's plot of a world circling auto race during the time of automobile infancy. The film has a good musical score, lots of gags and is very entertaining and clean fun for children (of all ages). Somewhat dated now, made in 1965, but represents the outer bounds of lunacy that needs to be done every now and then!


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Summary: DVD version is fullscreen not widescreen
Review: The movie is spectacular. This DVD version is a bomb. Shame on Warner Brothers for their greediness and lack of effort to bring widescreen versions to the masses including updated soundtracks and clean film reels!