Monte Carlo or Bust! (1969) on Netflix
The Monte Carlo Rally of the 1920s draws drivers from Britain, Italy, France and Germany. Chester Schofield won half a car factory at poker; Sir Cuthbert Ware-Armitage enters to win it back.
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Plot summary
An international field gathers for a 1,500-mile car rally to Monte Carlo. Among the entrants is Chester Schofield, an American who won half of an automobile factory from Sir Percy Ware-Armitage in a poker game, with Betty as his co-driver. Sir Percy's son, Sir Cuthbert Ware-Armitage, has entered winner-take-all to reclaim the lost half of the company. Maj. Digby Dawlish and Lieut. Kit Barrington of the British Army drive a vehicle fitted with odd inventions to preserve the honor of the Empire. Italian policemen Angelo Pincelli and Marcello Agosti are more interested in Doctor Marie-Claude and her French companions. Willi Schickel and Otto Schwartz make up the German entry. The route ahead holds dangerous mountain roads and a snowslide.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Monte Carlo or Bust! (1969)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Director Ken Annakin had a hard time with star Tony Curtis, calling him "brittle, self-centered and a bully", while Curtis enjoyed his time in Rome and was romantically linked to co-star Susan Hampshire.
- A piece of music playing in the film during a German prison escape scene, called "The Schickel Shamble", has been the theme music for I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue since that show began in 1972.
- Paramount Pictures retitled the film Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies and re-edited it, cutting up to half an hour from the original British release.
- Terry-Thomas, Gert Fröbe and Alberto Sordi were wanted back for the follow-up to Those Magnificent Men, with one American part possibly going to James Garner.
