The great leslie tony curtis, professor fate jack lemon, maggie dubo. Behind the scenes with blake edwards the great race. Professional daredevil and whitesuited hero, the great leslie, convinces turnofthecentury auto makers that a race from new york to paris westward across america, the bering straight and russia will help to promote automobile sales. It is the longest pie fight sequence in movie history. Apropos of my last photo heres natalie wood whilst filming the pie fight on the great race. The race the film was loosely based on took place in 1908. The great race 1965 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. Strangelove, the great political satire of the atomic age, at one point ended in a pie fight, before kubrick altered the finale to include earths annihilation. This film is also known in film history for having the greatest pie fight ever, and it better be since it took a whole five days to film.
Rent the great race 1965 on dvd and bluray dvd netflix. Rent the great race 1965 starring jack lemmon and tony curtis on dvd and bluray. The great race 1965 passed action, adventure, comedy, family, romance. Falk stars as sam kleinman, whose wife muriel olypmia dukaki these two, man, these two made that film. Today, our subject is a favorite movie from my childhood.
Pie fight, at this point, was shorthand for comedy, and all films used them to represent a complete loss of control. No other sex tube is more popular and features more messy pie fight scenes than pornhub. Natalie wood after filming pie fight scene in the great race see more. The technicolor scene for the pie fight in the royal bakery was filmed over. The great leslie tony curtis, professor fate jack lemon, maggie. Leonard maltin compared the great race pie fight to the battle of the. Pieing had become such an established gag in hollywood comedy that the song make em laugh from singin in the rain 1952 concludes with the line and then you get a great big custard pie in the face.
Blake edwards, the master of many comedies 10, pink panther series, breakfast at tiffanys, victorvictoria. In the pub there is a singer who is singing about her ex boyfriend, or someone of that nature. The great race music from the film score henry mancini. Tony curtis stars as the great leslie, a hero among heroes whose purity of heart is manifested by his spotlessly white wardrobe. Natalie wood spreading her hand photo by movie star news at. In this series, i discuss the careers of silent movie personnel during the talkie era. Leslies archrival, the mustached and blackattired professor fate vows to beat leslie to. Features the largest pie fight ever staged, with a running gag that the great leslie remains clean while everyone else is covered in pie. Dedicated to laurel and hardy, the great race is both a spoof and a loving tribute to the silent classics, with good guys, bad guys, romance, adventure, slapstick, music, wonderful antique cars, and the biggest pie fight in history. Following this was the throwing of 4,000 pies, the most pies ever filmed in a pie fight. Perhaps the strangest, most surreal movie pie fight is in the 1930 our gang comedy short shivering shakespeare. Fate and leslie are in boracho there is a celebration at the local pub silver palace.
The first pastry thrown was part of a large cake decorated for the kings coronation. The great race 1965 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. The great race, that chronicles the 1908 great american car race from new york to paris. In the town of borracho, a fight between the great leslie and texas jack quickly turns into an allout bar brawl. Tony curtis was actually changing clothes several times, because he all too often got hit with pie during filming.
Professor fates iconic pronouncement to his partnerincrime, max peter falk, push the button, max would make daffy duck proud. Behind the scenes with blake edwards the great race 1965 6. And while shooting the pie fight, edwards himself threw the pies. The messy history of the pie fight, from vaudeville to. The great race plays like a living cartoon with its reliance on slapstick and explosions.
The great race 1965 movie mistakes, goofs and bloopers. Blake edwardss the great race and the party the new. Professor and his assistant where houlerious in this part of the movie. Great race, the dvd academy award winner jack lemmon, tony curtis and natalie wood star in aslapstick farce about a 22,000mile road race from new york to paris setin 1908. At the beginning of the pie fight, jack lemmon says, you wouldnt dare. This film, written by paul reiser, examines the effect a terminal illness has on an aging couples relationship as well as their children. Strangelove, film critic alexander walker explains, the studio had told him that early on we know what youre going to.
Id seen the big pie fight scene on you tube a dozen times, but i dont think i had ever watched the movie unless i had seen it back in the seventies on tv with my parents. The great race behind the scenes making of duration. Add to this a heap of favorite character actors, a big budget, flamboyant period costumes, and the biggest pie fight ever filmed, and you have a movie where there is always something to enjoy on the screen. Two blake edwards comedies the great race and the party present the director working on a grand scale and a more modest one. Natalie wood after filming pie fight scene in the great race. The polka is, unfortunately not exactly the same as what is featured in the film some film historians even go so far as to call it the most expensive and elaborate pie fight ever filmed, and it was the film version which was, arguably one of the best classical type. The great race moviemaker blake edwards so enjoyed the laurel and hardy pie fight, he did his own version in a 1965 movie starring jack lemmon, tony curtis and natalie wood, among others. The great thing about the great race are the performances, which are very broad but endowed with a sly humor. While the film takes great liberties with historical events, it is all in the name of comedy, according to edwards. Natalie wood after filming pie fight scene in the great. According to wikipedia, the pie scene in the great race took five days to film, involved the throwing of 4,000 pies and lasted just over four minutes, making it the biggest pie fight ever filmed. The technicolor scene for the pie fight in the royal bakery was filmed over five days. Great race, the 1965 movie clip i never mix my pies jack lemmon in two roles, first as professor fate impersonating the prince, later as the prince, with the general george macready, leslie tony curtis, maggie natalie wood, max peter falk, hezekiah keenan wynn et al, in blake edwards famous pie fight, from the great race, 1965.
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The comedy about a crosscontinental early 20 thcentury auto race between daredevils the great. Inspired by the epic pie fight staged by laurel and hardy in their short battle of the century, director blake edwards decided to throw the biggest pie fight of all time in the great race. It features slowmotion, weird camera angles and marvelously telegraphed pie attacks reminiscent of a greek tragedy. In the movie the race goes through a town called boracho. During the pie fight, the great leslie remains clean while everyone else is covered in pie. The movie is loosely based on the 1908 new york to paris race. The great race takes place from new york to paris and is packed with comedic entertainment and song as the race sweeps across america and europe to the steps of montmatre. The biggest mistakes you never noticed in the great race 1965. Leslies great rival, played by jack lemmon, is professor fate, a scowling, mustachioed, tophatted, blackgarbed villain.
The pies used during the pie throwing scene were real, containing fruit, custard, whipped cream and other ingredients. Apparently this scene was not easy so i assume this was early. Tony curtis was required to change clothes several times when he was accidentally splattered with debris from a pie that had hit someone else. Browse through our impressive selection of porn videos in hd quality on any device you own. The great leslie tony curtis, professor fate jack lemon, maggie dubois natalie. I gambled that i would like the rest of it and bought the blu ray and it was a good gamble. Published on feb 5, 2016 one of our favorite costumer movies, with the largest pie fight in cinema history.
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