Grand Prix (Blu-ray)
Cinerama sweeps YOU into a drama of speed and spectacle!
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 56 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 24, 2011
- Originally Released: 1966
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | James Garner | |
Performer: | Eva Marie Saint, Yves Montand, ToshirĂ´ Mifune, Enzo Fiermonte, Brian Bedford, Jessica Walter, Antonio Sabato, Adolfo Celi & Claude Dauphin | |
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:
Rating: B --
Four decades later, John Frankenheimer's Grand Prix remains the best film ever made about professional auto racing.
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FulvueDrive-in.com
Formula 1 in all its glory. Nothing before or since can match the spectacle of John Frankenheimer's race-car epic...
Wall Street Journal
Director John Frankenheimer has moved his cameras out onto the great tracks of the Grand Prix circuit -- Monaco; Spa, Belgium; Brands Hatch, England; and Monza, Italy -- for the most authentic and exciting racing sequences ever filmed.
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Cleveland Press
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
Rating: B --
A decent formula motor racing film.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Frankenheimer can make one feel that there's no more exhilarating place to put a camera than on a Formula One.
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The Spectator
Rating: 3/4 --
this idea that while anything's possible through technology, the debt of that ambition is paid out in blood.
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Film Freak Central
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.