Posted on 08/18/2013 3:28:17 PM PDT by ReformationFan
"Push the button, Max."
When Films were Good!
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I'm still rooting for the professor - - hahahaaa!
One of my All-Time Favorites.
“Push the Button, Max!”
“Max, you idiot, WE’RE Car #5!”
“Welcome to Boracho Honey!”
“Well, you’re an emancipated woman, and I’m an emancipated man.....”
LOL!
“He shouldn’t’uve, hadn’tof, ought’notuv swang on me.”
The musical score by Henry Mancini was also excellent.
“I need me some fightin’ room!”
The Great Race?
Al Sharpston isn’t going to be happy. He understands what that really means, and he’ll want rep-ar-aaaa-tions.
I LOVE the Pie Fight!
“You’re banished, banished, banished!”
Best pie fight in screen history IMHO. The clever idea of having Tony Curtis walk right through it spotless while everyone else was getting splattered is genius.
In 1965, when I was a kid, we went to Los Angeles for a vacation, and I remember that the premiere of “The Great Race” happened while we were there. I saw the movie at that time, and, at 12 years old, I thought it was hilarious. I hope I still find it funny when I watch it tonight.
I still love it. It’s clean(at least relative to today’s comedies) fun, silly and slapsticky. Don’t expect subtlety. I love it and the similarly themed “It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” from the same time period.
After you watch it, please let us know what you thought of it as an adult.
In that PERFECT white suit! LOL!
The Boston Pops often played the Pie In The Face Polka written by Henry Mancini.
My beloved Dad, a movie projectionist and photographer, used to show this movie on a sheet on our living room wall, flawlessly coordinated with 2 16mm projectors.
Before the days of VHS, of course!
Best pie fight in screen history IMHO. The clever idea of having Tony Curtis walk right through it spotless while everyone else was getting splattered is genius.Star Trek: The Original Series did a homage to that scene.
It was during the bar fight in the "Trouble With Tribbles" episode - con man/tribbles peddler Cyrano Jones walks right through the bedlam after helping himself to multiple shots from the bar.
Classic!
Thanks for the post. I haven’t seen this since I was a kid. Besides, the Giants are getting their butts handed to them by the Colts anyways >:(
One of my favorite movies...
jack Lemmon is the perfect villain!!!
Also, “Those Magnificent Men & Their Flying Machines”
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