The Great Race

feature film, 1965.

DIRECTED BY: Blake Edwards

The Great Race

CAST:
Tony Curtis (Veliki Leslie),
Jack Lemmon (profesor Fate / princ Frederick Hoepnick),
Natalie Wood (Maggie Dubois),
Peter Falk (Maximilian Meen)

SCRIPT:
Arthur A. Ross

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Russell Harlan

Synopsis:
Leslie Gallant III, called "Big Leslie", is a rich adventurer in search of a new challenge. He successfully persuades a car producer to promote a new model in a race from New York to Paris. Of course, Leslie is one of the racers and his biggest rival, professor Fate, enters as well. The professor is determined to win and builds his own car: Hannibal Twin-8. A young journalist, Maggie Dubois, joins the race too.

35 mm, color, 160 min