The Great Race
“The movie with 20,000-miles or one-million-laughs guarantee!”
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.
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Cast
65 people
Jack Lemmon
Professor Fate
Known for
The Apartment
Some Like It Hot
Tony Curtis
The Great Leslie
Known for
Some Like It Hot
Sweet Smell of Success
Natalie Wood
Maggie Dubois
Known for
West Side Story
Rebel Without a Cause
Peter Falk
Max
Known for
Columbo
The Princess Bride
Keenan Wynn
Hezekiah
Known for
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Once Upon a Time in the West
Arthur O'Connell
Henry Goodbody
Known for
Anatomy of a Murder
Fantastic Voyage
Vivian Vance
Hester Goodbody
Known for
I Love Lucy
The Lucy Show
Dorothy Provine
Lily Olay
Known for
That Darn Cat!
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Larry Storch
Texas Jack
Known for
Jack Frost
The New Scooby-Doo Movies
Ross Martin
Rolfe Von Stuppe
Known for
The Wild Wild West
Experiment in Terror
George Macready
General Kuhster
Known for
Paths of Glory
Gilda
Marvin Kaplan
Frisbee
Known for
Top Cat
Wild at Heart
Blake Edwards Director · Arthur A. Ross Screenplay Henry Mancini Composer
Worldwide gross $25M · Budget $12M · United States release July 1, 1965
Box office
Budget
$12,000,000
Worldwide gross
$25,300,000
Gross vs. budget
2.1×
Production
Jalem Productions
Production
Patricia Productions
Production
Reynard Productions
Production
Warner Bros. Pictures
Studio · Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · Italian
Release dates
United States · July 1, 1965
Limited theatrical · Los Angeles, California
United States
December 17, 1965 · Theatrical
Brazil
December 25, 1965 · Theatrical
Finland
August 26, 1966 · Theatrical
France
February 16, 1966 · Theatrical
Germany
December 9, 1965 · Theatrical
Ireland
November 25, 1966 · Theatrical
Japan
December 25, 1965 · Theatrical
Netherlands
December 22, 2001 · TV · RTL 5
Romania
April 9, 1975 · Theatrical
Russia
July 5, 1965 · Premiere · Moscow Film Festival
United Kingdom
October 1, 1965 · Theatrical
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