ALL SCI-FI

[Bud Brewster]

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IMDB has 123 trivia items for this movie. Here’s a few of the ones I found the most interesting, in the blue text.
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~ While shooting aerial footage over Greenland, the second unit camera crew accidentally filmed a secret US military base. Their plane was forced down, and the crew was suspected of being Soviet spies.

Note from me: "Honest guys, we're not spies! We're just making a funny movie about America accidentally bombing Russia!"

"Right. Lock 'em, men!"

~ The scene where Gen. Turgidson trips and falls in the War Room, and then gets back up and resumes talking as if nothing happened, really was an accident. Stanley Kubrick mistakenly thought that it was George C. Scott really in character, so he left it in the film.

Note from me: Yes sir, it's tough to keep a good man down! :loll:

~Peter Sellers was paid $1 million, 55% of the film's budget. Stanley Kubrick famously quipped "I got three for the price of six".

Note from me: Over half the budget? Wow!

~ Peter Sellers improvised most of his lines.

Note from me: Well hell, when your getting $55 million, you better give 110%!

~ The War Room contains a large table of food because Stanley Kubrick intended to end the film with a custard pie fight between the Russians and the Americans. He decided not to use the footage because he found it too farcical to fit with the satirical nature of the rest of the film. The only known public showing of the pie fight scene was at the 1999 screening of the film at London's National Film Theatre, following Kubrick's death.

Note from me: Ah well, The Great Race had an amazing pie fight, and they might not have done it if Kubrick had done his just two years earlier.

~ In one version of the script, aliens from outer space observed all of the action.

Note from me: I love this item . . . but is it really true.

~ Dr. Strangelove apparently suffers from agonistic apraxia, also known as "alien hand syndrome". It's caused by damage to the corpus callosum, the nerve fibers that connect the brain's two hemispheres. Researchers at the University of Aberdeen who identified it named it Dr. Strangelove Syndrome. According to Prof. Sergio Della Sala, patients "slam their hand and shout 'My hand does things that I don't want it to do!'"

Note from me: Good grief, I had no idea that it was a real medical condition!
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Krel]

The pie fight in the war room was taken out because the actors were smiling and laughing during the fight, while Kubrick wanted them to have serious expressions, NOT looking like they were having fun.

The pie fight in "The Great Race" (1965) was a tribute to a Laurel & Hardy 1927 film "The Battle of the Century". The pie fight in "The Battle of the Century", 1927 is still considered to be the greatest pie fight ever done.

The pie fight on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHY5SM0YFv0

David.

[Maurice]

[Bud Brewster]

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Here's the pie fight from The Great Race. The presence of Natalie Wood in a corset and black stockings with garter straps is a real plus for this candidate as The Greatest Pie Fight.

__THE GREAT RACE: The Largest Pie Fight Ever Filmed!


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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Gord Green]

What more praise can we have for THE GREAT RACE?

Pie fight is marvelous and the bar fight is no slouch either!

Check out the sword fight sequence too . . .

____________ The Great Race sword fight scene


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Awesome in that it features the two weapons I trained in and competed in while in college...foil and sabre. Real, not just stage fencing!

They just don't make them like this anymore...and I greatly doubt they could even if they wanted to! What a grand collection of great talent! Only IT'S A MAD,MAD,MAD, WORLD comes close!

Oh yeah....DR STRAMGELOVE is great too (Just to stay on topic!)
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There comes a time, thief, when gold loses its lustre, and the gems cease to sparkle, and the throne room becomes a prison; and all that is left is a father's love for his child.

[Bud Brewster]

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It is indeed the best sword fight ever put on flilm — and that's really saying something!
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)