Visible crew/equipment: When Prof Fate sends the torpedo after the Great Leslie at the water speed record attempt you can see the wire just under the water pulling the torpedo towards Prof Fate's car when it detects his cars' exhaust explosions.
The Great Race (1965)
1 visible crew/equipment mistake
Directed by: Blake Edwards
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Peter Falk, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood
Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance, Sport
Revealing mistake: When Leslie is fighting the soldiers, one soldier hits a second soldier with his rifle. The rifle can be seen to bend around the soldier's body and then straighten again. (02:12:10)
Professor Fate: Leslie escaped?
General: With a small friar.
Professor Fate: Leslie escaped with a chicken?
Question: How exactly did Leslie initially intend on crossing the Bering or Chukchi Sea from Alaska into Russia? I know he and Professor Fate end up floating on a large mass of ice to do so, but that's not exactly something you can plan for.
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Chosen answer: The cars and drivers were supposed to make the trip by ship from North America across the Bering Strait to a Russian port, where they would resume the race. As it happened, Leslie and Fate were stranded in a blizzard on the North American side before they reached the ship. The ice beneath their cars unexpectedly broke away and drifted across the Bering Strait, improbably arriving at the intended destination port in Russia. As they drift into port, we see Leslie's right-hand man, Hezekiah, waving at them from the Russian dock, which is only possible if Hezekiah made the journey by the very ship that Leslie and Fate missed.
Charles Austin Miller