| Uniform Title |
Great race (Motion picture : 1965) |
| Title |
The great race. |
| Published |
Australia : Distributed by Warner Home Video, ©2002. |
| ©1965 |
| Description |
1 DVD-video (160 minutes) : sound, colour ; 12 cm. |
| Notes |
Catalogued from container. |
| Warner Home Video : 11091. |
| Originally released as a motion picture in 1965. |
| Special features: All new 2001 digital transfer ; Sound track restored and remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1 ; Documentary behind the scenes with Black Edward's The Great Race ; Interactive menu ; Theatrical trailer ; Cast & crew ; Scene access. |
| Credits |
Directed by Blake Edwards. |
| Performers |
Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Natalie Wood. |
| Summary |
Crank your engines! With a roar, sputter and pop (and more Academy Award winning Best Sound Effects), drivers wheel westward in wacky turn-of-the-century autos for a New York-to-Paris race. Ahead lie 20,000 miles, a bar-room brawl, a sinking iceberg, 2357 pies in the face and incalculable laughs. Blake Edwards turns a marvellous cast loose on a round-the-world highway booby-trapped by some of the funniest screen gags ever. Jack Lemmon and Peter Falk are nasty Professor Fate and his dim henchman Max. Tony Curtis is their good-guy nemesis, the Great Leslie. And Natalie Wood is cheroot-puffing suffragette reporter Maggie DuBois. Zestily scored by Henry Mancini and ravishing a new digital transfer with revitalized digital audio from restored elements, The Great Race is great fun. |
| Target audience note |
Censorship classification : G. |
| System details |
DVD video, Dolby Digital 5.1/1.0, Region 4, NTSC, widescreen 2.35:1. |
| Language note |
English, French. English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Mandarin, Thai, Korean. |
| Subjects |
Antique and classic cars -- Drama |
| Automobile racing -- Drama |
| Man-woman relationships -- Drama |
| Feature films -- United States |
| Motion pictures, American |
| Genre |
Comedy films |
| Slapstick comedy films |
| Feature films |
| Fiction films |
| Other Names |
Edwards, Blake, 1922-2010 director. |
| Curtis, Tony, 1925-2010 actor. |
| Lemmon, Jack actor. |
| Wood, Natalie actor. |
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