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Jul 29, 2014 - 10:11 AM
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johnjohnson
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Ha, I beat johnjohnson on this one. One of my favourite films on Blu-ray at last, via Warner Archive on the 9th of September. Great stuff! I should really have a cover & specs, but I'm sure John will post it properly.
I wonder if the original score will get a release?
I wasn't aware it was a Great Race
Warner Archive has confirmed that it will release on Blu-ray director Blake Edwards' The Great Race (1965), starring Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Jack Lemmon, Peter Falk, and Vivian Vance. The release will be available for purchase on September 9th.
Synopsis: Black Edwards turns a marvelous cast loose on a round-the-world highway booby-trapped by some of the funniest screen gags ever. Jack Lemmon and Peter Falk are nasty Professor Fate and his dim henchman Max. Tony Curtis is their good-guy nemesis, the Great Leslie. And Natalie Wood is cheroot-puffing suffragette reporter Maggie DuBois. Zestily scored by Henry Mancini and ravishing in a new digital transfer with revitalized digital audio from restored elements, The Great Race is great fun!
Special Features/Content: •Original Road Show Version with Overture, Intermission, Entr'acte, and Exit music
•Behind the Scenes with Blake Edwards' "The Great Race"
•Theatrical Trailer
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=14601
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That's odd--I was thinking about a Blu-ray release of THE GREAT RACE last night. I already have it on dvd, but to me, it's not that good of a movie---there are really funny parts that don't add up to a good movie.
When the film came out my parents drove my sisters and myself (we were kids) to the drive-in somewhere in So. California to see this film. I don't recall what I thought of it at the time, but I do recall my Mom laughing (uncontrollably) at various scenes, in particular where Jack Lemmon is shouting 'PUSH THE BUTTON MAX!' before his car explodes (or something). The next scene started and my Mom was still laughing and other families in neighboring cars were looking. Obviously, she loved it. I didn't see it again untill it appeared on video tape and, as a grown-up, didn't find it at all funny, except for a couple of set-pieces. One of them being the 'pie-throwing scene' where I think Mancini scored it with a Polka. I think it's Dorothy Provine's presence in the film that drags it down for me; the studio or someone was trying to make her a big star I guess.
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its a very decent comedy. and lots of variety in the score.
as you say Dave, i love the pie in the face polka too.
With Curtis walking oblivious through the pie fight saying "miss Dubois?!!"
i have used this scene in the past as an analogy to describe planks at work that somehow seem to breeze through office politics and potential redundancies without a scratch, dangerously unaware of the skullduggery and sackings mayhem and taut atmosphere in the office going on around them. many of you will know the type!!
and jack lemmon as the drunk prince is priceless!!
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its a very decent comedy. and lots of variety in the score.
as you say Dave, i love the pie in the face polka too.
With Curtis walking oblivious through the pie fight saying "miss Dubois?!!"
i have used this scene in the past as an analogy to describe planks at work that somehow seem to breeze through office politics and potential redundancies without a scratch, dangerously unaware of the skullduggery and sackings mayhem and taut atmosphere in the office going on around them. many of you will know the type!!
and jack lemmon as the drunk prince is priceless!!
'....(I've) somehow seem to breeze through office politics and potential redundancies without a scratch, dangerously unaware of the skullduggery and sackings mayhem and taut atmosphere..'
Well, this sounds not unlike your other job at Downton, does it not Mr. Carson?
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dave, ive not watched it. i know the actor though.
does he sail through untouched while all around is suffering?
back to Great race - jack Lemmon makes a great Terry-thomas- like villain.
i love the bit where they knobble the other cars and are lauging each time they overtake a sabotaged competitor.
and Lemmon says Which car next?
and the sidekick peter falk says something "number 5, engine falls out!"
they both giggle then Lemmon says But We're number 5!
- then you hear this massive bang and their engine falls out!!
made me laugh!
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