The 1965 movie The Great Race was loosely inspired by the 1908 New York to Paris Race, though heavily fictionalized for comedy.
In 1908 he was one of the three-man team that manned the Züst, the Italian entry in the six-car around-the-word automobile race, known as The Great Race.
It specializes in the production of entertainment TV shows, such as the highly popular Minute of Fame and The Great Race.
The film was one of several large-scale widescreen, long-form "epic" comedies produced in the 1960s, much like The Great Race or It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, combined with the epic grandeur of the Western genre.
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Other later large-format and/or high-profile films Dunn's company did opticals for are My Fair Lady (1964), The Great Race (1965), Hawaii (1966), The Bible: In the Beginning (1966), Darling Lili (1970), and Airport (1970).
Also known as "The Great Race", "The World's Oldest Triathlon" and the "No-Swim Triathlon", it features a 5.82-mile run, 12.5-mile bike and 6.35-mile paddle held along the scenic American River Parkway in Rancho Cordova and Sacramento, California.
In The 4400 episode "Wake Up Call", Tess Doerner bases her description of the future on the city of the Great Race as described in "The Shadow Out of Time."
Stephen Jay Gould described The Passing of the Great Race as "The most influential tract of American scientific racism."