The Great Race 1965 7 out out 10

The Great Race  1965  7 out of 10

A car race that goes around the world.   Two arch rival daredevils   race around the world in this madcap adventure by Blake Edwards that stars a great cast.   The Great Leslie (Tony Curtis)  clad all in white and his nemesis Professor Fate (Jack Lemmon)  clad all in black (with sinister mustache included) battle it out in this silly adventure comedy with  Peter Falk and Natalie Wood along for the ride.   It is fun film that I revisited after probably about 20 plus years after a friend recently suggested it as a possible movie he would like to see  remade.    This movie was clearly the inspiration for Dastardly and Muttly and those Hanna Barbara  Wacky Race adventures you may remember having seen as a child.   The highlights of the include a  good old Western town bar fight scene, a terrific sword fight in a castle and a great pie fight near the end.  The cast was great especially Jack Lemmon as the villain and a drunken prince in one of the stops they make along the way.   Check out this fun adventure/ comedy.

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Here is the Wacky Races intro to jog our memory

The Wackiest Ship in the Army 1960 5 out of 10

The Wackiest Ship in the Army  1960  5 out of 10

First of all the title is completely inaccurate and misleading. There was nothing even remotely wacky about the movie at all.  It was an okay film based on a true story about a small sailing ship that was used in order sneak into an area patrolled by Japanese ships in order to save many lives during the war.   A decent story starring the very talented Jack Lemmon and a crew of misfits and the challenges they faced on their mission.  I went into this movie expecting something wacky so a standard low key war movie wasn't something I wasn't ready for.  Where is the wacky???

If it had been called Mission aboard the Echo I probably would have liked it since I wouldn't have been expecting and then been disappointed by the utter lack of wackiness.