Posted on 08/18/2013 3:28:17 PM PDT by ReformationFan
“After the sword fight in the castle:
“I have a boat waiting below!”
Ross Martin!
LOL.
Dorothy Provine was great. I also like her in “Good Neighbor Sam”(her other movie with Jack Lemmon) and the Disney classic “That Darn Cat”. Plus, she and Peter Falk got the honor of appearing both “It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” and “The Great Race.”
My other favorite is “Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines”
My other favorite is “Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines”
“Are you a native of Borracho?”
“I ain’t no native I was born here!”
Ha Ha Ha!
Enjoying this so much!
When he went straight through the bottom of that rowboat I about cracked up. One of the funniest scenes ever!
Yes!
hahahahaha!
“He who fights and runs away,
Lives to fight another day!’
I Have a Boat waiting”
Splatt!
http://thegreatrace.webs.com/behindthescenes.htm
The Pie Fight Scene
In the first few hours of filming the pie fight scene, Natalie Wood was lead gasping from the set when she choked on a creamy hit in the mouth. Jack Lemmon said: “I actually got knocked out a couple of times. Unless it’s thrown just right, a pie hitting you in the face feels like 10 tons of cement.”
Shots of the cast and extras throwing pies took 5 days to film. After the first day, the on-set photographer took head shot photos of the cast covered in pie so that when they arrived for filming the next day, the make-up artists knew which type of pies were to be re-applied to the casts’ faces so as to resume shooting from the night before.
The pies used were real. They contained fruit, custard and whipped cream. Following this scene, the crew endeavored 300 leftover pies from a total of 2,357.
Jack Lemmon had to film the pie fight scene twice as he brings both Professor Fate and Prince Hapnick into one scene!
During the pie-throwing scene, there is a running gag that The Great Leslie remains clean while everyone else is covered in pie. Tony Curtis was required to change clothes several times when he was accidentally splattered with debris from a pie that had hit someone else.
Best pie fight ever.
I think the Prisoner of Zenda spoof is my favorite section of the film with the Borracho sequence a close 2nd.
Well, I probably didn't LOL as much as I did when I was 12, but now I probably appreciated some things I didn't back then.
Jack Lemmon RULED! Great performance(s)!
Natalie Wood was stunningly gorgeous.
Tony Curtis played it just right.
Great color look to the film.
The whole thing was lots of fun.
“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!”
What a cool dad and what a neat memory for you!
I agree with all your points. I think Blake Edwards and other filmmakers benefited from working in the pre-1968(the year they introduced the ratings system) era when they could make a clean movie that was fun, clever and enjoyable without resulting to so much of the terrible things they do today.
“The Great Race’’, “It’s A Mad,Mad,Mad, Mad World’’. Those were great pictures, saw them as a kid. “The Russians Are Coming’’(We run aground in Soviet Navy Russian submarine boat’’, egermancy, egermancy everybody to get from street!’’) “Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines’’ was another great one. They just don’t make ‘em like that anymore. That was a different time, a different America. Lately I’ve been trying to put into words or thought about how it is America has changed and I think I can see that now. I remember those days. There was a feeling of, I dunno, optimism, of new things happening or on the horizon, that ‘’can-do’’ feeling. There was still so much innocence and, well, decency in mainstream art and entertainment, certainly not the vulgarity there is now. I think in part because many of the writers of those screenplays, guys like Mel Brooks were of the “Greatest Generation’’ and had those values of decency and good taste and there were lines not to be crossed. That America is gone, it vanished.
That is an excellent flick as well... also “It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World”.
Thank You! Yes my Dad was the COOLEST!
We were raised in a loving home with a sheet on the living room wall flanked by two Altec-Lansing Voice of the Theater Speakers that were as big as dishwashers.
But we 6 kids were the dishwashers! LOL!
I am an artist, photographer, musician, patriot and a Christian because of Dad.
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