seeing the movie in 1965

I just watched The Great Race for the first time since seeing it in 1965 at the theater. Thanking TCM for showing it!! In it's entirety. I remember enjoying the movie immensely, but very few details had remained with me clearly except the great pie fight. Being in a theater can be an audience participation event and the pie fight was just that. Much like the cheers or the boos and hisses of the silent films, the pie fight had that kind of reaction. When Tony Curtis as the Great Leslie, in his nice white ice cream suit was finally hit in the face with a pie, the theater erupted in applause. You cannot get that kind of fun feeling watching a movie at home.