Grand Prix (1966)
Grand Prix (1966, Two-disc Special Edition)
2xDVD9 | ISO | NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | 02:55:55 | 11,43 Gb
Audio: English AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps; French AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese
Genre: Drama, Sport | Won 3 Oscars | USA
2xDVD9 | ISO | NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | 02:55:55 | 11,43 Gb
Audio: English AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps; French AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese
Genre: Drama, Sport | Won 3 Oscars | USA
There's a few million dollars' worth of star power and a nickel's worth of plot in the lavish race-car melodrama Grand Prix. Among the participants in this annual cross-continent competition are characters played by James Garner, Yves Montand, Brian Bedford, and Antonio Sabato. Interested parties include Toshiro Mifune (his voice dubbed by Paul Frees), Adolfo Celi, and Claude Dauphin, while the women who agonize on the sidelines include Eva Marie Saint, Jessica Walter, and Françoise Hardy. The racing sequences are top-rank, cleverly utilizing those 1960s devices of helicopter angles and multiple screens. Oscars went to editor Frederic Steinkamp (among others) and the sound-effects supervisor Franklin E. Milton. Filmed on location, Grand Prix made back its cost about half a week into its run.
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Nobody–not Paul Newman, not Steve McQueen, not Tom Cruise–looked better behind the wheel of a car than James Garner.
In MGM's 1966 release "Grand Prix," the part-time race-car movie, part-time soap opera, Garner gets plenty of chances behind the wheel. Now, if only the movie had left him there and de-emphasized the various personal romances, this nearly three-hour epic might have come in at a more comfortable two hours and provided a lot more thrills for the buck.
In honor of its fortieth anniversary, Warner Bros. have decked it out in one of their celebrated two-disc special editions, the movie spilling over onto the second disc, which also contains a ton of new documentary material. Furthermore, the film is newly restored, making the racing scenes and the scenery a pleasure to watch. The nice thing about DVD is that after you've seen a movie once, you can skip the scenes you don't like the next time you watch it. "Grand Prix" is about formula-one racing, and that's where the action lies.
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The movie takes us into the public and personal lives of four fictional drivers vying for the world championship during a Grand Prix formula-one racing season. The principals are Pete Aron (James Garner), an American driving for BRM, a man who hasn't won a grand prix event since he left Ferrari three years earlier; Jean-Pierre Sarti (Yves Montand), a Frenchman, twice World Champion, now number one at Ferrari but beginning to question his chosen life; Scott Stoddard (Brian Bedford), Pete's teammate for BRM, a wealthy Englishman trying to live up to the reputation of his older brother, a world champion driver killed in a racing accident; and Nino Barlini (Antonio Sabato), Sarti's teammate for Ferrari, a young, devil-may-care Sicilian, former motorcycle racer, and full-time lover.
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Behind the races we meet Louise Frederickson (Eva Maria Saint), an American journalist following the racing season for a fashion magazine, who becomes involved with the married Sarti. We also meet Pat Stoddard (Jessica Walter), Scott Stoddard's wife, a woman who enjoys the high life and hates her husband's risking his life racing. When a car wreck involving her husband's racing car and Pete's car puts her husband out of action, she takes the opportunity to leave him and take up with Pete. That'll teach him. And there are Izo Yamura (Toshiro Mifune), a rich Japanese industrialist with ambitions to field a racing team good enough to win the world championship; and Lise (Francoise Hardy), Nino's newest girlfriend. For reasons unknown, Pete practically disappears from the movie's second half, at least up until the final race of the season, making even more room for the sudsy goings on of the other players.
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Fortunately, if you can make it through all this soapy, ditzy romance and intrigue, there are the racing sequences to enjoy, and they are most often dazzling. The director was John Frankenheimer, who gave us such films as "Birdman of Alcatraz," "The Manchurian Candidate," "Seven Days in May," and "Ronin," a man who knew his action and suspense, if not his melodrama. He uses a good number of multiple split screens right from the opening titles, a convention that became quite popular in the late 1960s and 70s but has fallen out of favor in the last few decades. The director uses everything at this disposal to provide the visceral excitement of the racing events, from the aforementioned multiple screens to overheads and close-ups, plus plenty of corner camera setups and point-of-view shots.
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The movie takes us all over Europe, with location shooting in Monaco, France, England, Belgium, etc., and the filming is beautiful in its scope and vision. The French Grand Prix is particularly well photographed, quite poetically presented, and the Belgium Grand Prix is done up mostly in the rain, making for some breathtaking shots. Then, too, all of it is accompanied by Maurice Jarre's sometimes lyrical, sometimes evocative, always stimulating musical score, much of it reminiscent of his work in "Doctor Zhivago," with touches of "Lawrence of Arabia." I mean, you know this is an epic not only by its length but by its overture and its entr'acte music.
Racing veterans Phil Hill, Joakim Bonnier, and Richie Ginther acted as advisors on the film, with Carroll Shelby as technical consultant. Additionally, the director got real-life formula-one drivers Graham Hill, Lorenzo Bandini, Bob Bondurant, Jack Brabham, Jimmy Clark, and others to participate in a number of scenes, lending a further note of authenticity to the proceedings. Graham Hill, incidentally, was almost too good to be true, looking like a young David Niven.
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Perhaps the movie's greatest achievement is in capturing the feeling of a bygone racing era, the end of an age in racing history where the competition was still a seat-of-your-pants undertaking, where racing machines were nothing more than engines on wheels, and where strict safety rules and million-dollar endorsements were still dreams of the future. Today's formula-one machines look and behave like intergalactic, science-fiction rocket ships, they are so technologically advanced compared to the racing cars of 1966.
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But there are also the exaggerated emotions and personal relationships to contend with, none of which in and of themselves would probably not happen to somebody in real-life but seem to happen to everyone in this picture simultaneously. Scott is nearly crippled in a horrendous accident but determines to make it back to the track and become a world champion; everybody in the film has an affair with everybody else; the characters are generally vacuous stereotypes, Pete chief among them; team managers are ruthless; and winning is everything to every driver, every owner, and every spectator. It begins to feel like piling on.
As with all sports movies, "Grand Prix" comes down to the final race of the season to determine the world championship, and the tension mounts. Ah, the joys of DVD, to be able to watch the movie again by clicking only on the racing sequences. They are more than worth the price of the set.John J. Puccio, DVDTown
Grand Prix (1966)
Edition Details:
Disc 1:
- First part of the feature film; chapters one to twenty-six;
- Theatrical trailer in non-anamorphic widescreen;
Disc 2:
- The concluding part of the film, chapters twenty-seven to forty-five;
- The first documentary, "Pushing the Limit: The Making of Grand Prix," is twenty-eight minutes long and includes commentary from filmmakers, stars, and drivers who worked on the film. Interestingly, we learn that director Frankenheimer originally wanted Steve McQueen to play the part of Pete Aron, but it fell through; and the director insisted that all of his actors learn to drive race cars and do at least some of their own driving in the movie;
- The second documentary, "Flat Out: Formula One in the Sixties," is seventeen minutes long and includes the reminiscences of a number of world-champion drivers about their racing experiences in the 1960s;
- The third documentary, "The Style and Sound of Speed," eleven minutes long, is all about the photography, sound, and editing of the film;
- The fourth documentary, "Brands Hatch: Chasing the Checkered Flag," ten minutes long, is a look at the British Grand Prix course today;
- Promo-featurette, "Grand Prix: Challenge of the Champions," twelve minutes, made at the time of the film's production.
Grand Prix (1966)
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