The Great Race poster
Director Blake Edwards
Screenplay Arthur A. Ross

The Great Race

Tagline: The movie with 20,000-miles or one-million-laughs guarantee!

Release Date: 1965-07-01

Duration: 160 minutes

Synopsis

Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. Leslie's arch-rival, the mustached and black-attired Professor Fate vows to beat Leslie to the finish line in a car of Fate's own invention.

Casting

  • Peter Falk
    Max
  • Denver Pyle
    Sheriff
  • Tony Curtis
    The Great Leslie
  • Natalie Wood
    Maggie Dubois
  • Arthur Tovey
    Reporter (uncredited)
  • George Macready
    General Kuhster
  • Jack Lemmon
    Professor Fate
  • Arthur O'Connell
    Henry Goodbody
  • Bert Stevens
    Townsman (uncredited)
  • Vivian Vance
    Hester Goodbody