Desert Island DVDs - Comedy

#1: The Great Race (1965). Directed by Blake Edwards; Very loosely based on the historic 1908 Auto Race from New York to Paris; Tony Curtis is the Great Leslie - the hero of the piece complete with gleaming white teeth that sparkle in the camera's eye; matching wits with Jack Lemmon as the dastardly Professor Fate, who is determined to stop at nothing in order to win the race; Natalie Wood is the damsel-not-so-in-distress. This comedy may not have the cachet of that other Lemmon-Curtis pairing, Some Like it Hot; but it more than holds its own with brilliant bits of farce that would make it ideal for desert island viewing! My favorite bit is when the leads and their respective entourages get stuck in a snowstorm overnight and wake up to find they are on a melting iceberg. With scene-stealing side turns by Keenan Wynn and Peter Falk.