The Great Race
Capsule by Dave Kehr
From the Chicago Reader

Blake Edwards's parody of/tribute to slapstick comedy is obscenely overlong and insistently hammy, but so what? It's highly inventive, self-conscious camp, made in 1965, well before the genre wore itself out in superciliousness. The story centers on a New York to Paris road race (think about that for a while) between the Great Leslie, a white-suited, teeth-flashing Tony Curtis, and the unscrupulous Professor Fate--Jack Lemmon in a Mack Sennett mustache. Very funny; creatively vulgar. 160 min.

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