Cheap The Great Race (DVD) (Blake Edwards) Price

Director Blake Edwards, fresh from the success of the first two Pink Panther movies, indulged his love of classic slapstick comedy with this long free-for-all, which throws in everything but Laurel and Hardy's kitchen sink. The film reunites Some Like It Hot stars Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, ably aided by a spunky Natalie Wood. The subject is a New-York-to-Paris auto race in the early years of the 20th century, pitting the Great Leslie (Curtis), a goody-goody dressed all in white--even his teeth sparkle--against the malevolent Professor Fate (Lemmon), whose coal-black heart is reflected in his handlebar mustache. He looks like a bill collector from a silent- movie melodrama. Lemmon does double duty, also playing the pampered, drunken king of a small European country, whose laugh sounds like the wail of a cat in heat. The film may be too long for its own good, and you really have to love Jack Lemmon to put up with his over-the-top performance, but it's side-splitting in spots. It's one of those movies, if seen in childhood, that stays in your mind for years afterward. Some of the bigger routines, such as a pie fight of epic proportions, don't work as well as the simple chemistry between the perpetually exasperated Professor Fate and his much-abused assistant, Max (a terrific Peter Falk). Push the button, Max. --Robert Horton

CATEGORY:	DVD
DIRECTOR:	Blake Edwards
THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE:	01 July, 1965
MANUFACTURER:	Warner Home Video
MPAA RATING:	Unrated
FEATURES:	Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, NTSC
TYPE:	Comedies & Family Ent., Comedy, Comedy Video, Feature Film-comedy, Movie
MEDIA:	DVD
# OF MEDIA:	1
UPC:	085391109129