The Great Race(1965) - Leslie Gallant vs. Baron Von Stuppe
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- The Great Leslie(Tony Curtis) engages the Baron Von Stuppe(Ross Martin) in two rounds of Combat with Foil and Sabre in order to save Maggie DuBois(Natalie Wood) and his friend Hezekiah Sturdy(Keenan Wynn).
the ending with the boat had me absolutely roaring
I always felt that this scene was so intense. In an otherwise zany and campy adventure film, this scene really kept the audience on their toes.
In this scene, they stayed true in intensity to the 1937 production of The Prisoner of Zenda.
One of the best duels ever filmed!
Agreed. And Tony Curtis portraying a gentleman to the end.
Tony Curtis & Ross Martin were brilliant in this prisoner of Zender take off. And the bit when Martin dives out the window and smashes into the boat was priceless. 🤣🤣👍
Baron von stuppe is my favorite character in this movie
Props for the actors using Italian grips on the foils...and holding them PROPERLY (of course, Italian and French grips WERE the grip of choice back when this was filmed).
Good observation. When I was in college in the early '80s I appreciated having at least one Italian foil available, being left-handed (I could make a French grip work, more or less, but pistol-grip was right out, so no epee for me back then).
The escape....epic. I can't stop laughing
I do love the respect shown by the villains in the older movies. The fact that men could still fight like men and stop for a moment to exchange weapons. It was very well done
This is the best sword fight in the history of movies it's better than any other duel.
Scaramouche is No. 1 hands down.
This is definitely up there, 2nd perhaps. But nothing tops the 1952 climactic duel.
I love the Barons "no..."
They rehearsed this scene for 7 months. One of many great scenes in this iconic movie.
One of the greatest ensemble casts in cinema history. Love this film very much.
I love the way 'The Great Race' constantly swaps genres, one minute it's a western, then it's a survival movie, then it's a Jules Verne style steampunk adventure, then it's a Ruritanian romance.
And it still manages to be funny throughout.
It's my number one personal favorite comedy. I'll never understand how it flopped at the box office at the time of its release or why it's not on the AFI's top 100 comedies list.
Yeah, I love it too. You also left out one genre Comedy!
@@BlackCatFilmProductions 🤣🤣🤣 Of course!
The best saber duel ever.
One if the best movie sword fights in history!
Fun fact, the ending where the Baron jumps off and crash into the boat? A parody of the Prisoner of Zenda
Most certainly.
The whole section is a parody of The Prisoner of Zenda.
I love this scene! And movie
This is the payoff to the early setup where Leslie is dueling with Natalie Wood in his luxury beach tent and she tells him she won the international women's fencing competition and after he defeats her he says "now if you had won the international men's fencing competition" that was a brilliant seed that was planted now here is what Leslie meant we see how good he really is.
Baron von stuppe is my favorite character in this movie
Tony is incredible here!
A great duel between Leslie & the Count. ⚔️
4:28 Ouch!!!!
Gracias.
The ending is bizarre and hilarious
Best duel a mix of foil and saber and for some reason it reminded me of the prisoner of zenda because of the inside of the castle.
Tony Curtis sword fighting shirtless?? Get a bucket of water in here!!
4:25 I have a boat waiting
But the boat not hard enough to encase the landing force
It coulda been. Professor Fate pointed out that it was a 100-foot drop, and it takes a free-falling body two-and-a-half seconds to fall through a distance of 100 feet. The baron’s vertical velocity while standing at the open window was, of course, zero b/c he hadn’t yet performed his swan dive. After 2.5 seconds, he hit the boat at a speed of 80 feet per second which is approximately 54.55 MPH.
Also: That boat was more like a wooden dingy. The body of a full-grown man hitting the boat head first at a speed close to 55 MPH could conceivably break it.
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IMHO, the REAL question is THIS: How could the baron survive an impact like that? Even if he were strong enough to survive the fall, crashing headlong through a solid, wooden boat at the end of a 100-foot swan dive? Imagine the damage to his head and neck! The soldiers who were in that boat swam away once it sank, but this movie doesn’t show what became of the baron. Maybe he survived as a quadriplegic?
They, and Natalie Wood, were students of Joseph Vince, a U.S. sabre champion.
Very classic fencing techniques - too bad they didn't try the epee in the middle of the scene! ;)
Inspiration for The Princess Bride I am sure
I don't get it. Wasn't the point to "live and fight another day"?
Aaaaaahhhh the snitch
We're gooo now.
"Please excuse me..." Then he kills himself.
TJA - wer beizeiten läuft von hinnen
kann ein andermal gewinnen :D
He aged alot in the six years leading up to the persuaders
I ask et Laura be freed.
You know, it’s too bad this movie came out before lord of the rings I’d throw away those dinky swards and sward fight with Legolas fighting knives.