h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I know there's not much left of it and I've been an incompetent fool

But there's still plenty of time to watch this month's movie, which is...

The Great Race!

With Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood?

*Blinks and looks around*

Wha-....I actually got to a forum before other people! Oh, frabjuous day, calloo callay!

Peter Sellers' The Great Race. I know they've released it on DVD, but I'm just realizing that it might not be well-known enough to be easily accessible.

What do you think? If there's no way that this is a reasonable selection, I've got others. Though none are nearly as funny as "The Great Race."

Ah, FG's heard of The Great Race. I feel more confident.

I don't remember Peter Sellers being a film called The Great Race, I wonder if it had a different title in the UK?

IMDB says that there was one alternate version produced in 1996 for France. They cut the team of New Yorkers from the film.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0059243/

Yeah, I don't know if it'll be available in some places, which is why I'd be willing to change movies if everyone else thinks that this is too obscure. I just panicked in a moment of realization that I was first to the forum and put this title down (most likely because it's my favorite movie of all time).

Of people here, who thinks that this film would be too hard to find?

Amazon.com has it available for purchase.

Blockbuster US has it for rental.

Neither Blockbuster Canada nor UK has it at all.

I don't think I'll be able to get hold of it, but that's because I'll be too busy revising to actually watch it. I can find it on amazon.co.uk, but not on any rental sites.

(PS I won't be able to take part in May's either as I'll be in the Outer Hebridies, and I'd imagine it's much harder to get hold of obscure films up there than it is down here)

I've added The Great Race to my Netflix rental queue; I should be able to watch it by the end of the month.

I may have seen this movie as a child -- does it have a huge pie fight in it? In which one of the characters keeps yelling "Brandy! Throw more brandy"? Apologies if I've gotten my movies mixed up!

JEllen

Yes, you're thinking of the right movie. If you ask me, this is the only movie to ever do a pie fight well. Even counting "Blazing Saddle" by Mel Brooks.

Is it the one were they are racing to California and ends at a clump of palm trees?

If so it was on tv a while back, but I don't recall seeing it in our local dvd/video shops.

No, this one is a race by car from New York to Paris. It's on TCM from time to time, generally late at night during Peter Sellers marathons, usually immediately before or immediately after a Pink Panther movie.

There must be two Great Races out there then, because the only one I know does *not* have Peter Sellers in it.

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to say Peter Sellers. I meant to say Blake Edwards. It's a mistake that I've been making for years.

I can only find a Pokémon Great Race at the library

Caerywn, you're thinking of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (or is there 5 mads?)

(Hint: even with that extra Mad, a good movie for May! )

That's the one Sporky