Monte Carlo or Bust!

A transcontinental car rally from England to Monte Carlo draws a field of eccentric competitors, each with their own reason for taking part. Among them are Chester Schofield, an American who won half of a British car factory in a card game, and Sir Cuthbert Ware-Armitage, the dispossessed heir who holds the other half. The two agree that whoever reaches Monte Carlo first will take the whole company, and their rivalry plays out along a route that runs through Scotland, Stockholm, Athens and Lisbon before the finish. Elsewhere in the field are a pair of escaped convicts smuggling diamonds, Italian policemen, a British major and a group of French feminists, all chasing their own agendas across Europe.

Ken Annakin directed and co-wrote the film with Jack Davies, following his earlier aviation comedy Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines. The cast mixes British, American, French and Italian performers, among them Tony Curtis, Bourvil, Mireille Darc, Peter Cook, Lando Buzzanca and Walter Chiari. The film runs just over two hours.

On IMDb it holds a rating of 6.1 from around 2,800 votes, while on TMDB its score is 5.9 from a much smaller base of 63 votes.