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Contraptions Add Convulsions To Comedy
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The wild comedy of “The Great Race,” new Warner Bros. release in Panavision-Technicolor which opens ...... at the ...... . Theatre, is made wilder and more mirthful by the imaginative contraptions with which director Blake Edwards filled the film. Here are some of them. Left, a dragonWa rner Bros.
faced rocket which hurtles down a railroad track, then unexpectedly blasts
off into the stratosphere with evil-minded Jack Lemmon and Peter Falk Pictures
aboard; center, a color-striped hydrogen balloon from the bottom of which D
Tony Curtis makes a daredevil escape while tied into a straitjacket; upper 666 Fifth Avenue right, a super-speedy motorboat in which Curtis breaks the world’s water N ew York 19 7 N. ¥..
speed record and almost gets blown-up by Lemmon; lower right, a dirigicycle—dirigible and bicycle combined—from which Lemmon and Falk conduct upper-air espionage. “The Great Race” stars Curtis, Lemmon and Natalie Wood. The score was written by Henry Mancini.
Astonishing Autos Appear In Film
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; Manager a crew of Warner technicians and conceived by Danny Lee, special effects expert, and Ferdie Carrere, art director, both of whom are seen in the
Wa rner Bros. Pictu res photo at right. The black car was developed to parallel the black character Jack Lemmon portrays in “The Great Race.” It has a cannon to mow
666 Fifth Avenue down enemies, a nose-cone to melt snow and ice, a smokescreen to cause confusion, and it rises 12 feet in the air to enable escape, The
New York 19, N. \ white car, made to suit the white spirit of Tony Curtis in the film, is
simply a gorgeous, luxurious phaeton. Curtis, Lemmon and Miss Wood star in “The Great Race.” Blake Edwards directed, Hnry Mancini wrote the music of the film.
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