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Tonight we race! This was such an adventure epic and I was simply obsessed with the costumes. The whole thing was just such an incredible feat, so much fun! Also, now I just feel like pie! Haha 🥧🖤

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THE GREAT RACE (1965) - MOVIE REACTION - First Time Watching

The Great Race is a 1965 American Technicolor epic slapstick comedy film directed by Blake Edwards, starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, and Natalie Wood, written by Arthur A. Ross (from a story by Edwards and Ross) and with music by Henry Mancini and cinematography by Russell Harlan. The supporting cast includes Peter Falk, Keenan Wynn, Arthur O'Connell, and Vivian Vance. Hello everyone and welcome to The Coby Show! Thank you for supporting me and I hope you have a good time here! For more exclusive content on movies and TV, more daily content, and to support my channel, please subscribe to my Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/c/CobyConnell Social Media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cobyconnell/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cobyconnell #TheGreatRace #JackLemmon #TonyCurtis #NatalieWood #BlakeEdwards #1965 #Reaction #CobyConnell

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Sam

Jack Lemmon was great in this movie. Other great ones he did 27 years later were Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men. You like us old men, right?

thebeefmaster

A favorite since I first saw it in 65. Just good old-fashioned fun.

baz0348

If you enjoy this their are a few very similar movies like monte carlo or bust, rat race and canonball run more modern takes but all very similar movies.

Mark Knight

You’re on a roll with new content Coby. I’m currently at work, but I will be sure to watch this when I get home tonight.

Chase Street

Professor Fate: "Oh, of course I'll keep it to myself... Until the water reaches my lower lip, and then I'm gonna mention it to SOMEBODY!" ---- My favorite line in the movie!

Harry S

This is a great movie, thanks Coby!

Flounder

My favorite: “You! You’re the cause of it all! It was your idea! I don’t care, I don’t care! You’re banished! I’m getting a new tucker‑inner! Banished, banished, banished!”

eric clark

My Dad repeatedly used, "Push the Button Max!" - with all the appropriate inflection. Nice memories.

Celeste McAllister🍓

"Throw More Brandy!!" Costumes by Edith Head!! 'White Christmas' 'To Catch a Thief' and 'My Fair Lady'☆☆☆☆☆

Mark Pitta

As Coby was trying to figure out who was who I kept kept yelling at the TV. “please look it up.”

Alan Jones

Once again, I failed to appreciate the presence of the Discussion Group posting, and added a three-para comment under the Full Watch Along. I'll not repost it here, but if anyone is interested, you can find it there.

Christopher

As I’m posting here, I’m watching and loving your reaction. What is interesting about The Great Race is that the three leads: Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Natalie Wood have either worked together on earlier films; or worked with the director Blake Edwards. - Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis were in Some Like It Hot (1959) - Lemmon was in Days of Wine and Roses (1962); directed by Blake Edwards - Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood were in Sex and the Single Girl (1964) Ironically, in that film she played Helen Gurley Brown; the woman who later became the head of Cosmopolitan magazine. This was the 2nd time she played a character based on a real person. The first was when she played Gypsy Rose Lee in Gypsy (1962).

Keith Johnson

The Leslie Special was a real auto-mobile. It toured the country along with the movie. It was at the theater where I saw the film. It was at least 25 feet long. At the risk of sounding like a dirty old man, but, Natalie Wood in a corset and stockings covered in whipped cream... nuff said.

John DiGiantomasso

This movie is a perfect example of a Melodrama" - a type we don't see any more very often, but the root of the word "melodramatic" which we see too much! A melodrama has over-the-top characters and performers. Good guys inmall white, bad guys in all black, damsel in distress... This was a popular style on stage and on screen in the early 1900s when this film was set. Another classic Melodrama series is the cartoon "Dudley Doo-Right" (vs Snidely Whiplash!) from the old Bullwinkle show. (The names are a melodramatic giveaway to hero and villain.) Melodramas were big in early silent movie shorts to convey hero and villain by sight alone and wasting no time.

Harry S

This movie was made into a cartoon called The Wacky Races. There was also a Wacky Races board game. I still have my original game from the 60s.