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An international car rally across Europe is complicated by smuggling, cheating, love at first sight, etc. etc.An international car rally across Europe is complicated by smuggling, cheating, love at first sight, etc. etc.An international car rally across Europe is complicated by smuggling, cheating, love at first sight, etc. etc.
Gert Fröbe
- Willi Schickel
- (as Gert Frobe)
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- TriviaKen Annakin did not like working with Tony Curtis, calling him "brittle, self-centered and a bully".
- Goofs(at around 9 mins) When they pull in front of "Armitage Motors" the chimneys and cooling towers of a coal-fired power plant can be seen in the background. While this type of cooling tower is incorrectly thought to be used only on nuclear plants, they were actually first used in the UK on a coal-fired plant in 1924.
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Otto: Are we not going too fast Willie? His Excellence is definitely saying we have to finish in 26th position.
Willi Schickel: Who is caring what his excellence is saying, we're Germans. There's only one place for Germans, that's First!
- Crazy creditsClosing sequence: Revolving Automobile Tire segues into the Paramount Logo.
- Alternate versionsIn the US, there were 2 releases: a 93 minute version and an 122 minute version.
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My comment above is not at all to dissuade you from watching this frequently funny film it is mostly to recognize the colossal amount of money invested in these all star road romps that raced thru the 60s. MAD MAD WORLD and MAGNIFICENT MEN and GREAT RACE and then this along with the whopper period musicals (DARLING LILI) had production accountants suicidal. From 1964 to 1970 I can count 33 massive 'roadshow' musicals and 20 'roadshow' comedy adventure epics. Cinemas were weekly opening something with 22 stars and costing 22 million and all in 70mm and on reserved seats. Like concert overload, these overloaded films became so frequent that they lost their appeal. Like eating a ton of fruit salad. I found this film: THOSE DARING YOUNG MEN IN THEIR JAUNTY JALOPIES as a 3rd rung on the 'race' list extremely well made but with an inordinate amount of back projection and insert studio shots edited into scenes that were already in the can from location shooting, almost duplicating the film indoors for small spot shots. The rear projection scenes even involved crowded backgrounds (see the Sweden scenes) and duplicates of the main actors who only were inserted in the close ups... so some major stars actually did not go to some locations, just the second unit and the extras and stand-ins ... all cleverly inserted together with studio pick-up and dialog bits. The Terry-Thomas scenes and the Pete and Dud pukka British dastardry are by far the funniest and the Italian nonsense by far the most grating, sadly because they also feature the adorable Walter Chiari. So overloaded with scenes, antics and pantomime J-JALOPIES almost becomes impossible to follow, a fact itself recognizes because of the frequent split screen 'where are they now' compilation assemblies. Tony Curtis is hilarious and replays his Great Leslie image from THE GREAT RACE. J-JALOPIES is all terrific expensive Euro fun and well worth watching with kids and teens on family movie night. But the cost of this production! eek!
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- $10,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime2 hours 2 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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