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• RALLY CAR JACK STANDS MOVIE

The five racers, covered in pie filling, depart Carpania with King Friedrich's best wishes.Īs the racers leave Pottsdorf (with Maggie now back in Leslie's car), it becomes a straight road race to Paris. A pie fight ensues involving the racers, the Prince's men and the conspirators. Fate, still masquerading as Prince Hapnick, takes refuge in a bakery but falls into a huge cake. Leslie and Max return the real Prince to the capital in time to defeat Kuhster's plan for a military coup. Following a climactic sword fight with Leslie, Von Stuppe attempts escape by leaping to a waiting boat, but bursts the hull and sinks it. Leslie and Max overcome Von Stuppe's henchmen and confront Von Stuppe. Fate is forced to masquerade as the Prince during the coronation so that the rebels can gain control of the kingdom.

Max escapes and joins Leslie to rescue the others. Plotters under the leadership of Baron Rolfe von Stuppe and General Kuhster kidnap the Prince, Fate, Max, and Maggie. Maggie is snatched by Fate, who drives off in the lead.Īfter driving across Asia, both cars enter the tiny kingdom of Carpania, whose alcoholic and foppish Crown Prince Friedrich Hapnick is the spitting image of Professor Fate. They awaken on a small ice floe which drifts into their intended Russian port, where Hezekiah is waiting for Leslie, who in turn casts off Maggie for deceiving him. Mishaps, including a polar bear in Fate's car, compel all four racers to warm themselves in Leslie's car. Keeping warm during the storm, Leslie and Maggie begin to see each other as more than competitors. The two remaining cars reach the Bering Strait and park side by side in a blinding snowstorm. Leslie uses mules to pull his car to another refueling point, where Maggie tricks Hezekiah into boarding a train and handcuffs him to a seat, lying to Leslie that Hezekiah had quit and "wanted to go back to New York". Fate sneaks outside amidst the chaos, steals the fuel he needs, and destroys the rest. A local outlaw named "Texas Jack" becomes jealous of the attraction to Leslie shown by showgirl Lily Olay and a saloon brawl ensues.

Fate arrives first at a refueling point, the small Western frontier town of Boracho. The steamer car breaks down and Maggie accepts a lift in the Leslie Special. The surviving teams are Leslie with his loyal valet Hezekiah Sturdy, Maggie DuBois driving a Stanley Steamer by herself, and Fate and Max. Driving the newspaper's car is beautiful photojournalist Maggie DuBois, a vocal suffragist.Ī seven-car race begins, but Fate's long-suffering sidekick Maximilian Meen has sabotaged four other cars (and his own, by mistake), leaving just three cars in the race. Other car owners enter the race, including one owned by New York City's most prominent newspaper. Fate builds his own car, "The Hannibal Twin-8", complete with hidden devices of sabotage. They design and build a new car for him, "The Leslie Special". Leslie proposes an automobile race from New York City to Paris and offers the Webber Motor Car Company the opportunity to build an automobile to make the journey. Leslie's nemesis, Fate, is the traditional melodramatic villain – usually dressed in black, sporting a black moustache and top hat, glowering at almost everyone, possessing a maniacal evil laugh, filled with grandiose plans to thwart the hero, and dogged by failure. Leslie is the classic hero archetype – always dressed in white, handsome, ever-courteous, enormously talented and successful. The Great Leslie and Professor Fate are competing daredevils at the turn of the 20th century.

It was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning the Academy Award for Best Sound Effects. It is known for one scene that was promoted as "the greatest pie fight ever". The story was inspired by the actual 1908 New York to Paris Race.

RALLY CAR JACK STANDS MOVIE

The movie cost US$12 million (equivalent to $98.36 million in 2020), making it the most expensive comedy film at the time. The supporting cast includes Peter Falk, Keenan Wynn, Arthur O'Connell and Vivian Vance. Ross (from a story by Edwards and Ross), and with music by Henry Mancini and cinematography by Russell Harlan. The Great Race is a 1965 American Technicolor slapstick comedy film starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, and Natalie Wood, directed by Blake Edwards, written by Arthur A.