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Turn Of The Century | Paris, France
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Best Effects Sound Effects | 1966
Best Sound Editing Feature Film | 1966
Film | 1965 | Blake
Best Cinematography Color | 1966
Best Music Original Song | 1966 | Henry
Best Film Editing | 1966 | Ralph E.
Best Sound | 1966 | George
Best Original Score | 1966 | Henry
Best Original Song | 1966 | Johnny
Best Actor Comedy or Musical | 1966 | Jack
Best Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | 1966
Best DVD Classic Film Release | 2003
Best Written American Comedy | 1966
1965 | Blake
Budget 12,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 25,300,000 USD
This film was the inspiration for the Saturday morning cartoon show Wacky Races (1968): Dick Dastardly and his sidekick Muttley were based on Professor Fate and Max, Penelope Pitstop was based on Maggie DuBois and Peter Perfect was based on Leslie.
The pie fight scene lasts four minutes and was shot in five days. It is the longest pie fight sequence in movie history. At first, the cast had fun filming the pie fight scene, but eventually the process grew wearisome and dangerous. Natalie Wood choked briefly on a pie which hit her open mouth. Jack Lemmon got knocked out a few times: "a pie hitting you in the face feels like a ton of cement". At the end of shooting the fight, when Blake Edwards called "Cut!" he was barraged with several hundred pies that members of the cast had hidden, waiting for that moment.
Chris Lemmon, son of actor Jack Lemmon (Professor Fate), said in an interview on KMOX-Radio in St. Louis that he considers Lemmon's role in this film to be his father's finest. Jack Lemmon himself has said he got more mail about Fate than about any other character he played.
Jack L. Warner asked Tony Curtis if he would give a percentage of his film royalties to Natalie Wood as an enticement, but Curtis refused. He said, "I couldn't give her anything to make her want to do the movie." Curtis and Wood had worked on two films previously, and had developed an acrimonious relationship.
As its production budget swung wildly out of control, this film became the most expensive movie comedy ever made at the time. And with a duration of 160 minutes, it's also one of the longest.
"[On a melting iceberg] Leslie: [measures the base] 37 inches to go. Fate: Oh, 37 inches to go. Huzzah! At the rate we've been melting, that's good for about one more week! Leslie: You'd better keep it to yourself. Fate: Oh, of course I'll keep it to myself. [Leslie walks away] Fate: [muttering] Until the water reaches my lower lip, and then I'm gonna mention it to SOMEBODY!"
"[repeated line] Professor Fate: Push the button, Max!"
