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DVD Details
- 4 New "Making-of" Documentaries
- Vintage Featurette
- Theatrical Trailer
- Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 56 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 11, 2006
- Originally Released: 1966
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | James Garner | |
Performer: | Yves Montand, ToshirĂ´ Mifune, Jessica Walter, Adolfo Celi, Claude Dauphin, Enzo Fiermonte, Eva Marie Saint, Brian Bedford & Antonio Sabato | |
Directed by | John Frankenheimer | |
Edited by | Fredric Steinkamp | |
Screenwriting by | Robert Alan Aurthur & William Hanley | |
Composition by | Maurice Jarre | |
Produced by | Edward Lewis | |
Director of Photography: | Lionel Lindon |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1966 -
Best Film Editing: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1966 -
Best Sound: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
Frankenheimer can make one feel that there's no more exhilarating place to put a camera than on a Formula One.
Full Review
The Spectator
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Still dazzling, and the movie Ron Howard's "Rush" is sure to be measured against.
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Tribune News Service
3 stars out of 5 -- [T]he on-track stuff, as you'd expect from John Frankenheimer, is petrolhead heaven.
Total Film
3.5 stars out of 4 -- Containing the most exciting racing footage committed to a major motion picture, John Frankenheimer's GRAND PRIX strap you and its international cast into the driver's seat for a furious, adrenaline-fueled Cinerama experience.
Premiere
Rating: 6/10 --
Despite its melodramatic glimpses into the drivers' private lives, the racing sequences more than make up for the deficiencies.
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Movie Metropolis
Formula 1 in all its glory. Nothing before or since can match the spectacle of John Frankenheimer's race-car epic...
Wall Street Journal
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Yes, the driving scenes dazzle, but Frankenheimer also embeds his 1966 Cinerama epic with some interesting commentary about risk-taking professions in general and the Formula One driver in particular. [Blu-ray]
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Groucho Reviews
Description by OLDIES.com:
Nine races. One champion. James Garner, Yves Montand, Brian Bedford and Antonio Sabato portray Formula I drivers competing to be the best in this slam-you-into-the-driver's-seat tale of speed, spectacle and intertwined personal lives. Eva Marie Saint and Toshiro Mifune also star. John Frankenheimer (who 32 years later would again stomp the pedal to the metal for the car chases of Ronin) directs this winner of 3 Academy Awards, crafting split-screen images to capture the overlapping drama and orchestrating you-are-there POV camerawork to intensify the hard-driving thrills. Nearly 30 top drivers take part in the excitement, so buckle up, movie fans. Race with the best to the head of the pack!
Product Description:
GRAND PRIX is John Frankenheimer's film about the nine-leg world championship of Formula 1 auto racing, and stars James Garner as driver Pete Aron. During the opening race in Monaco, a collision sends Pete's car flying into the Monte Carlo harbor, and British driver Scott Stoddard (Brian Bedford) into a wall. While Pete survives unhurt, Scott may lose the use of his legs, and many hold Pete responsible. Jean-Pierre Sarti (Yves Montand), whose marital boredom has led to an affair with fashion editor Louse Frederickson (Eva-Marie Saint), wins the next race at Clermont-Ferrand. Afterwards Pete accepts the sponsorship of Japanese business magnate Izo Yamura (Toshiro Mifune), and begins to romance Stoddard's jaded young wife Pat (Jessica Walter). Pete wins the Belgian leg of the contest, but Sarti goes into a depression after skidding on a wet track and killing two children in a crash. After Pete also takes the German Grand Prix, Stoddard amazingly returns for the Dutch event, and, driving on sheer grit, pulls out a victory. He proves it's no fluke by also winning in Watkins Glen, N.Y. and in Mexico, making the championship competitive once again. Essentially a soap opera interspersed with racing footage, the film's existence was ascribed by Frankenheimer to his fascination with the sport and a desire to spend time in Europe. That said, the racing sequences are still among the most realistic ever put on film, jammed with wide-angle helicopter shots, you-are-there car-mounted cameras, and then-fashionable split-screen sequences. GRAND PRIX is a definitely a film or racing fans.