The Great Race The Great Race 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 Blake Edwards and Arthur A. Ross, and with music by Henry Mancini and cinematography by Russell Harlan. The supporting cast includes Peter Falk, Keenan Wynn, Arthur O'Connell and Vivian Vance. The movie cost US$12 million (equivalent to $ million in ), making it the most expensive comedy film at the time. It is noted for one scene that was promoted as "the greatest pie fight ever". The Great Leslie and Professor Fate
Jack MacGowran Hall, that if you had read the play you would know that Old Gobbo was blind." Jack MacGowran played the title role of "Gandhi" in the Broadway play written by Gurney Campbell in 1971, directed by Jose Quintero. MacGowran's film career started in Ireland with the film "No Resting Place" (1951), and many of his earlier films were set in Ireland. Notably "The Quiet Man" (1952), "The Gentle Gunman" (1952), "Rooney" (1958) and "Darby O'Gill and the Little People" (1959). In 1966 Roman Polanski cast him as the gangster Albie in "Cul-de-sac", before creating Professor Abronsius in "The Fearless Vampire