Other Titles • The Great Race • Blake Edwards' The Great Race (1965) • Das Große Rennen rund um die Welt (1965)
Quotes from The Great Race (1965)
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[repeated line] Professor Fate: Push the button, Max!
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[On a melting iceberg] Max: We gotta do something. Professor Fate: Oh, don't worry. Before this iceberg melts and we drown like rats, we're going to do plenty. Max: Yeah? What? Professor Fate: We're gonna starve!
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[On a melting iceberg] Leslie: You better keep it to yourself. Fate: Oh, of course I'll keep it to myself. [to himself] Fate: Until the water reaches my lower lip, and then I'm going to mention it to *somebody*!
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Max: Red sky. Gonna be a storm. Professor Fate: What are you babbling about? Max: Red sky in the morning, sailor take warning. Professor Fate: Why, you simple-headed gherkin, do you know the chances of a storm in this part of the world at this time of the year? Max: No, what? Professor Fate: Hundred to one. [a great thunderclap; it begins to pour rain] Max: Red sky in the morning, sailor take warning! Professor Fate: Why you idiot!
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Prince Hapnick: You! You're the cause of it all! It was your idea! General: No, no your highness... Baron von Schtupp Prince Hapnik: I don't care, I don't care! You're banished. I'm getting a new tucker-inner! Banished, banished, banished!
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The Baron: He who fights and runs away lives to fight another day. So, until another day, Mr. Leslie.
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Max: Rise and shine, Professor. Professor Fate: You rise! You shine!
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Maggie DuBois: You mean amazing because I'm a woman.
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[on the iceberg] Fate: You're wasting your time! Leslie: Perhaps. Fate: We're melting! Leslie: Slowly. Max: We're gonna sink! Leslie: Eventually. Fate: Then you're wasting your time!
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Prince Hapnik: Course there is one good thing, when one was young, one could play along the corridors. I used to ride my pony up and down this corridor when I was young, then I grew up, got drunk, and fell off!
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[gets hit in the face with a pie] Prince Hapnick: [tastes pie] umm... brandy! Throw more brandy, throw brandy! More brandy! Brandy! [gets hit again with a pie] Prince Hapnick: umm... rum! I never mix my pies!
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Cowboy: He's lucky Texas Jack ain't around... he'd gun that dude for sure! Professor Fate: Pardon me, Mr. Pahd-nuh, who is this Texas Jack? Cowboy: WHO'S TEXAS JACK? Professor Fate: Who? Cowboy: The roughest, toughest gunslinger in these parts... Lilly's his girl! Professor Fate: Whoo, hoo, hoo... Lilly's his girl. Max: Terrific...
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Baron von Stuppe: Well, Mr. Leslie. I had expected to see you again, but... eh... Not with a sword in your hand. Are you partial to the foil? Leslie: Not particularly. It happened to be convenient. Baron von Stuppe: I presume you know how to use one. Leslie: I hope that won't be necessary. Baron von Stuppe: I'm sure you do. Leslie: Will you release Ms. Dubois and the others? Baron von Stuppe: No... Leslie: I'm afraid this will be necessary. Baron von Stuppe: You're being very foolish, Mr. Leslie. Leslie: That's an assumption, Baron. You make me the victim even before we start! Baron von Stuppe: [shrugs] It's your life... Leslie: [gestures with sword] You're assuming again.
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Professor Fate: Leslie escaped? General: With a small friar. Professor Fate: Leslie escaped with a chicken?
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Leslie: Are you a native of Burracho? Lily Olay: I ain't no native, I was born here!
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Leslie: Minutes have made the difference in survival, Miss DuBois.
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Professor Fate: The eternal struggle takes time, Max.
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