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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- This is the kind of stuff I watched as a kid. No CGI, no wire acts or acrobatics and nobody even heard of a Ninja wha? All that stuff is fine but sometimes I just miss the old no kung fu crack style's. So heres a tribute to one of em!
I have a boat waiting 😂 I love that. One of my all time favorite movies😊
Was that a variation on the end of the fight in "Prisoner of Zenda?"
Hahaha the end was hilarious.
This is one of those swordfights that seems to be forgotten, which is a shame because it's excellent.
Oh, I agree.
It may seem simple and even a tad bit silly, but when you get a little wiser and look at the weapons they're using and how they're actually used, it is actually quite excellent.
And while the sabers may not look that deadly, but their tips were plenty sharp enough to kill, so it did take quite some skill to really use those sorts of swords.
And being gentlemen, they both lowered their foils and walked as one over to the sabers. That's actually my favorite part.
Give both Curtis and Martin props for not only using Italian grips...but holding them PROPERLY.
This movie is practically perfect. It's so damn funny. Tony Curtis had some great fight scenes in the
Black Shield of Falworth too.
The Great Race also has the best food fight on film. "brandy, more brandy"? (pie hits the king).. "rum? I never mix my pies". lol
Curtis was an Olympic-quality fencer. So was Cornel Wilde. Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone were both very good. Ironically, Erroll Flynn was no swordsman. Rathbone carried him in their fights. Flynn just looked fabulous in front of a camera.
My favorite movie of all time! Every year back in the early 70s and until I moved away for college in 1980 I'd start scouring the TV Guide when it'd been about a year from last viewing and when I'd find it I'd tell my mom and all of us would gather in the living room to watch The Great Race. Our stomachs would hurt and we'd have tears in our eyes from all our laughter. Watching TGR was an event in our house on par with watching Wizard of Oz every year. I'm in my late 50s now my parents are both gone and my sibs are scattered but I still absolutely love watching this wonderful movie and remembering those family gatherings in the living room when we'd all sit glued to our 19" TV laughing and enjoying each other's company. Thank you for posting this.
Please name of this masterpiece movie
@@monaimlouriga6603 The Great Race. Made in 1965. Very funny.
Thank you for replying !
It seems fun 😊
As a former competitive fencer, the foil work was excellent. The Sabre was a bit too theatrical and the distance was wrong. Still, lots of fun
I would say that for the intended Era, the distance was fairly accurate. I am a Classical fencer and the sabres we use are much heavier than modern sport fencing sabres. The distance with such weapons is surprisingly close!
I love this movie. I went to one of the many premieres of the Great Race. This sword fight is a classic, Tony Curtis was one of my heroes. I particularly like the little homage to Michael Curtiz sword fight in the 1938 Errol Flynn movie Adventures Of Robin Hood, with the shadows dancing across the wall.
A lost art, absolutely love the ring of crossed swords
When I told my daughter that I never in my life would think I would have a daughter who loved Pug Dogs, she said, "Well, I did have parents who played,"'The Great Race'" over 150 times throughout my life, what else would you have expected?" It wasn't 150 times, but it was a lot. This sword fight is one of the reasons we watched this movie, and of course, it is our favorite Jack 'Professor Fate' Lemmon movie. Peter Falk, Natalie Wood, they were all so very good.
"Max, press the button"! lol
As a foil fencer, I can say with certainty the moves they’re doing are for the most part extremely accurate
They didn´t read the treatise on Destreza.
@@alvarogabrielaguirregarin3933 No Spanish Circle, more like French smallsword, I did like the Italian dueling sabers at the end.
These days they can’t make great fencing scenes as in the old movies. This was very great fencing indeed. In movies today the use fast cuts and close ups because they can’t fence anylonger.
I'm not a fencer, but I noticed they had to be coached by actual fencers, because their technique was good, the foot work in particular.
Tony Curtis was a noteworthy fencer as seen in several films. Ross Martin however was a heart attack victim many times over...seeing him this active takes one aback!
The greatest fencing scene in the History of Cinema is in SCARAMOUCHE 1952 , greatest and longest scene. 5 stars
Remember going to the drive in to see this with my family. Was great on the big screen.
About every time I see a list of Best Movie Swordfights, and this isn't on it, I have to bring this one up. All Hail for posting this!
Everyone, don't miss the rest of this movie. It is Blake Edwards run riot with a dream cast. It's got whatever you want in it somewhere-- tech and steampunk, grand competition, melodramatic Villain and Sidekick, Hero with a smile that goes Ting! with Sidekick and Spunky Heroine (both are in one of the best 'disintegrating' scenes outside of The Muppet Show, singing) a Western tavern brawl, arctic exploration, suffragettes, Ruritanian adventure, fencing, fighting, true love, Paris.... and none of that description qualifies as a spoiler.
As a fen cing instructress this Duel is a joy to behold,these antagonists are both competent indeed!!Much superior to the wires and acrobatic blade slapping of sequent movies:It's a pity thes two did not have a film built around them! Excellent!!Thank You!❤😊
I'm surprised Martin was so athletic. That was just before his heart troubles surfaced, so perhaps he didn't know about his ticker ailments. Fun swordfight with a great ending!
Wild wild west kept him in shape.
I believe he was very well educated with multiple degrees
Wild wild west, one of my favorite shows. Ross was the man of a thousand faces.
One of the best cinema sword fights ever.
The Great Race. This swordfight scene and The Pie Fight scene were two of the best scenes ever filmed in cinema. As a young lad I think I started to like girls when I saw Natalie Wood dressed in underwear and frosting for the first time.
FINALLY. Someone mentions the pie fight.
This is one of my favorite movies 🍿 w/ the lovely ☺️ Natalie Woods (RIP) great sword play!!
My goodness the sound of their blades gives me the chills
Dollars to donuts that those were prop swords and that the sound of sabers clashing were done by Foley artists. That being said, it was still a beautifully choreographed duel.
Also, after such a serious scene (the only such scene in the entire movie), it had to end with the Baron diving through the boat!
Treg Brown, the man who hired Mel Blanc, won an Academy award for this film. His choice of sound effects and how he blended Mancini's magnificent score together adds the perfect touch to one of the great sword fights ever shot.
oh my, the ending was not expected. too funny.
LMAOOOOO!! What an ending! Hilarious! Thoroughly "Prisoner Of Zenda" style!
That must have hurt landing in the boat like that, back first. 😣 Ouch!
Thank you for posting this. This was a elegant exercise…
Like Basil Rathbone, Tony Curtis was an Olympic level swordsman, including of the sabres, a skill in which Russians did believe they were the best. Mr Rathbone hated his duelling scenes where he played the villain as, while losing and dying well, invariably had to teach his opponents the moves and could have easily killed them any time. But, great movies by the powers.
Diving headfirst into the boat. Now that was funny
I love that movie, but I'd forgotten this scene (and I love sword fights and both of these actors). Looks like it's been too long since I've seen "The Great Race".
"Now can I have me some fighten room" Larry Storch
RIP Larry Stitch.
This is the best version of this story I have ever seen. It was such a great adaptation.
From the movie the Great Race. Ross Martin at his finest moment
I love the homage to The Prisoner of Zenda! Even the baron's quote by a 'famous English gentlemen' was from that film! 😂
That ending!!!!
I was n a fencing club for a couple of years, and this stuff is very, very real. These actors studied a long time to master the foil and saber. Do any of the current screen stars work as hard?
Aside Jedis i always found imprectical jumping aroung for no apparent reason and grew up looking classic movies like The adventures of Robin Hood, The Court jester, The thief of Bagdhad, Captain Blood and other swashbuckling of the era.
God, those days there were swordfights!
But let me humbly quote:
Hola. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
The fight trainer for this segment was Joseph Vince, who was my instructor when I first took up fencing.
wow, somewhere I have a very secondhand fencing manual by Joseph Vince, I'd missed that he was the trainer here
back when movies have real sword fights
Miss you, Ross Martin!!
I don't believe for one second that boat ever stood a chance!
I can kind of understand why people started shooting each other, because this take a long time
Ross Martin was awesome.
Best film swordfight ever.
+NoneOfYour Beeswax That or the one in The Princess Bride.
@@TheRealSkeletor _"My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to Die..."_ - Awesome! The swordfight - and clearly you speak of the Inigo vs "Dread Pirate Roberts" aka Farmboy duel - is indeed one of the finest on film, but the character of the fight is very different, having much more comedy and acrobatics and less of the sombre and deadly serious aspect the Curtis fight has, as it ramps up the tension. I think they are too different to compare directly, but both are examples of excellence in their own genre.
@@noneofyourbeeswax01 Um, do either of you watch classic movies? Try The Mark of Zorro, between Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone.
@@Carthaginian60 Honestly this is pretty close to the Mark of Zorro duel. The choreography is excellent, and pretty authentic for the most part
Ah, the Great Leslie!
The Great Race is one of my favorites!
I believe this fight is a remake of the duel in Prisoner of Zenda! Best version was James Mason and Stewert Granger.
Now I want to watch Wild, Wild West.
Excellent movie
in thie this film THE GREAT RACE---Tony Curtis and Ross Martin do a mock of the great sword scene between Stewart Granger/James Mason in The Prisoner of Zenda now that's a great sword fight.
Excelente duelo
A little less training with the sword and spend a little more time on planning escapes perhaps? Anyhow, who in the world have a door placed like this?
Another hidden gem swordfight is found in 1973's Theater of Blood starring Vincent Price.
LMAO at the boat scene. Good one. Thanks for posting.
I have a boat waiting 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Jesus fuck that ending came out of nowhere.
The movie was a complete comedy. One of the funniest movies ever made!
DeanaL Indeed; it was a funny movie. One curious aspect was that Curtis alone played his entire role completely deadpan, playing it straight as though it were a serious movie - a risky trick that turned out to be quite inspired.
You fool! Lesley has the high ground!
I saw this on television just now.
I came in just a few minutes before the swordfight scene, so I thought it was a serious movie.
Then I saw 4:15 and I lost it.
The duel is a recreation of the Ronald Colman/Douglas Fairbanks Jnr & Stewart Granger/James Mason sword fights of the 1937 & 1952 movies of "The Prisoner of Zenda". The shirt slicing scene is similar to the 1952 sword fight in "Scaramouche" [Stewart Granger/Mel Ferrer, 1952] .Tony Curtis often said that he loved the old Errol Flynn Warner Brothers swashbuckler films like " The Adventures of Robin Hood" & "The Sea Hawk".
2:38. And that was his good shirt!!
Both actors were expert swordsman.
LOL!!! its a fun movie, hope you get to see it all.
The way he says noooo is so menacing!!!
More like, why did he jump head first into the boat and break it? XD
I don't think he hit it head first.. To me he appeared to be almost horizonal and the boat was probably tricked to smash the way it did.
Man that's gotta hurt falling on your nose like that.
Blake Edwards worked with Ross Martin in an earlier film I forget the title I think from 1958 or 1959 Ross played a killer and when he says "No..." in this scene it's identical to how he said it in the earlier movie.
You got it. Nice pick up. "Experiment in Terror" was the film.
@@russellcampbell9198 Thanks just looked it up it was from 1962 and the scene where Ross says "No..." he's on the phone with Glenn Ford he asks Ross "will you let the girl go?" and Ross says "No..." it was smart for Blake to tell Ross "say No like you did in Experiment in Terror"
Great Scene. May They R.I.P.
So much for the Boat lol
i have never seen any of this movie before so the boat bit broke me
Artemus Gordon and the Great Leslie. What a great scene.
Whoever wrote the opening text might want to brush up on apostrophes.
artemus Gordon? hokey smokes! I see it now. thanks!
quel bonheur!! Tony Curtis!! the best fight with Zoro!! and Mousqueteer!!
I mean the sword fight looked alright... but are we not gonna talk about the ending were he swan dives through a rowboat?
At least they are using the right kind of swords. I've seen films (like Prince Valiant) where they fight with two-handed swords (which are very heavy) like they are a cutlass.
These guys were caught touching weenies in a trailer between takes.
You know when strap up with a sabre or something, I too go top less...
This is the best sword fight in movie history it's never been equaled. Before this the two best were both with Errol Flynn in Robin Hood then in Sea Hawk. This is better than both of those were.
It's great. Until you see "Scaramouche", which IMOP is the greatest.
Wow the Baron totally ripped that line from Goldar of the Power Rangers.
What a fool! Ahahaha loved this
@aaus He had a other interest's. You'll just have to watch the movie. I recommend it, It's a good one so you wont be dissapointed.
Ese final no me lo esperaba. 😆😆
I wanna see the guy who put those logs on the fire in the background.
**THIS WAS 100% REAL!!**
No stuntmen, no CGI, no re-takes, and WITH GENUINE RAZOR-SHARP BLADES! Both RM and TC were experts, and they both put their lives on the line. Try filming this nowadays...
i'll bet the insurance company was going nuts over this.
Now we get actors like Alec Baldwin shooting people dead on film sets
why do people say shit like this? Yes, they could do more than one take, and no they are not using real fucking swords. Prop swords have been used for centuries. and that is definitely a stuntman jumping from the window.
@@theburninator888 Folks like to act like all movies are shit today. I liked Ross Martin, he was in my favorite TV show when I was a kid, The Wild Wild West. He was a master of disguises. But, they have TV shows with movie-type budgets now, and they are every bit as good as those flicks in the fifties and sixties...
@@theburninator888 - Actually, they're probably using common sport fencing foils and sabers... Neither of which are designed to cut or do any real harm.
...though they would probably leave one helluva welt on bare or lightly-covered skin. Or poke out an eye.
That's about it though; no "razor-sharp" anything there.
Tony Curtis was the MAN!
Fun fact: When Danny Kay filmed Connecticut Yankee, he was sparring with Basil Rathbone who was largely regarded as one of the best fencers in Hollywood. Kay had to SLOW DOWN or he would have defeated Basil easily.
You're thinking of The Court Jester. Yes, Basil was a very experienced and skilled fencer, and Danny was going a bit too fast for him. Part of it was that Danny was a tremendous natural athlete and picked up the skill quickly. But Basil was in his 60s at the time and Danny was barely over 40. Danny had also practiced those scenes almost exclusively with his instructor and so was used to the instructor's speed and timing. Reportedly there were a few close calls where Basil was nearly injured, so they used the instructor as a double instead whenever they could. More than likely, Danny had the typical intermediate student curse: being good enough that you can be quite dangerous, but not yet enough experience to make sure you don't injure someone else accidentally.
Another impressive sword fight was with Gene Kelly as Dartagnan in the Three Musketeers. Like Kay, very athletic as well as an expert dancer. The fight scene in which Dartagnan finds he is to fight all three musketeers right after each other, only to be interrupted by the Cardinal’s guards.
Ross Martin, one of the truly delicious Villains! 88😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
I once listened to Christopher Lee complain about undercranking in old swashbucklers, so maybe not totally devoid of "special effects".
If this is undercranked, it's very minimal and selective. Look at the fire, the lunges, hops, and drops from the stairs. Nothing odd or too quick about them.
lo mas bonito es la absoluta falta de movimientos innecesarios y estupidos tan comunes en los actos circenses que forman las puestas en escena de los combates modernos....wtf wasn't expecting that at the end
ya know what? I think I agree with ya there!
Best action than and cgi!
The world first human dive-bomber.
Hopefully. It looks great. The pie scene was funny, too.
Maybe next time don't have the boat waiting right under the window... 😏
Also, why not try that old thing of looking before you leap? 🤣
And they go from this to the biggest pie fight ever filmed.
They had to re do the pie fight.. But it was glorious..
May he rest in peice
I can't get over the fact dude is just shirtless...
Lol nice!
nice fall :D
Does anyone know why he dived headfirst into a wooden boat?
Unfortunately I didn't see any Great Sword.
The end wasn't what I expected
Straight out of family guy
No, family guy was straight out of great race
Why did they edit out the entire makeout scene?
Por favor, suban la película completa, se llama la carrera del siglo, de ser posible en latín o subtitulada en español. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏
Ehhh...sword fights in movies haven't changed all that much.
In a nation where the gun held sway, swordsmen of skill were attracted to Hollywood, in great demand as teachers, as the studios of the day would routinely send all their actors (even the unknowns) to learn how to swordfight, to ride, even to dance, so that they could perform in a wide range of movies. That was how the young Tony Curtis learned his swordplay, and he became so good that he was reputed to be the finest (and the fastest) swordsman in Hollywood.
Personally, one of the aspects of this particular fight that makes it so enjoyable for me is it's authenticity; it is self-evident (to most, I think...) that Curtis- and to a lesser extent, Ross Martin - really does know what he is about here.
@@noneofyourbeeswax01 According to Victor Paul who choreographed this duel, Curtis was very good but Basil Rathbone was most likely the best screen fencer in Hollywood followed by Cornel Wilde.
@@gerrydooley951 The choreographer was speaking of screen fencing, Tony Curtis was a competitive fencer which would be different from the more flamboyant and less realistic requirements of staged duels for the screen. I don't doubt they were all excellent however, as the studios had their actors trained in such arts as a matter of routine back then.
@@noneofyourbeeswax01 Basil Rathbone in Robin Hood springs to mind
The seahawk had better fencing. I’ll take Errol Flynn
Nice use of Grocer's apostrophe's.
Not bad at all, though I still prefer Jose Ferrer’s Cyrano.