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April 2004
Z Started conversation Apr 12, 2004
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...
April 2004
Afgncaap5 Posted Apr 12, 2004
*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."
April 2004
Coniraya Posted Apr 12, 2004
I don't remember Peter Sellers being a film called The Great Race, I wonder if it had a different title in the UK?
April 2004
Witty Moniker Posted Apr 12, 2004
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/
April 2004
Afgncaap5 Posted Apr 12, 2004
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?
April 2004
Witty Moniker Posted Apr 12, 2004
Amazon.com has it available for purchase.
Blockbuster US has it for rental.
Neither Blockbuster Canada nor UK has it at all.
April 2004
Z Posted Apr 12, 2004
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)
April 2004
Ellen Posted Apr 13, 2004
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
April 2004
Afgncaap5 Posted Apr 13, 2004
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.
April 2004
Coniraya Posted Apr 13, 2004
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.
April 2004
Afgncaap5 Posted Apr 13, 2004
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.
April 2004
FG Posted Apr 13, 2004
There must be two Great Races out there then, because the only one I know does *not* have Peter Sellers in it.
April 2004
Afgncaap5 Posted Apr 13, 2004
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.
April 2004
SE Posted Apr 14, 2004
Caerywn, you're thinking of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (or is there 5 mads?)
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