Aspect Ratio: 2.20:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Team Marketing
EAN: 0012569791008
Feature: Officially Licensed
Format: AC-3
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Item Dimensions: Array
Label: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Languages: Array
Manufacturer: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
MPN: TM1069
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2006-07-11
Running Time: 179
Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Theatrical Release Date: 1966-12-21

• Officially Licensed
• Highest Quality Recording

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.

DVD Features:
Theatrical Trailer
Documentaries
Featurette

Light on story, this 1966 spectacle directed by John Frankenheimer was shot in 70 millimeter, with a cinematically enthralling emphasis on unique, visceral new ways of capturing the sensations of a car race. James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Yves Montand, and Toshiro Mifune are part of the stellar, international cast whose characters plod through assorted relationship and business conflicts. But the film's real hook is the thrilling and inventive means by which Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate) brings an urgency to the drama happening on the racetrack. A true master of the plastic techniques of obtaining and cutting kinetic footage, Frankenheimer offers more than a joyride to viewers: he makes action part of the compelling language of stories. Cameras are strapped to vehicles as they round the track, shots are taken from a helicopter, the screen is split between angles for maximum impact--even if Grand Prix doesn't rank among the director's best character-driven stories, it is certainly driven on its own terms. --Tom Keogh

On the DVD
The much-anticipated release on DVD does not disappoint, with a pristine restored print and upgraded 5.1 Dolby sound. Of course, the Cinerama film can only be fully appreciated if you sit very close to your screen. The absence of a commentary track is forgivable, since director John Frankenheimer died in 2002. "Pushing the Limit" is your standard 30-minute retrospective with many new interviews with the stars and drivers. The universal opinion is that the film caught Formula One at the exact right time when the beauty of the sport was about to be changed in favor of safety and commercialism. There are some fascinating stories on how they were able to use real race footage so seamlessly. "Flat Out" continues the vibe of what racing was like in the '60s with more interviews from the real racers. "The Style and Sound of Speed" talks about designer Saul Bass and how he created the film's different approaches to each race and the cutting-edge use of montages and multiple screens. The vintage doc is kitschy but allows us to see the filming in action (the footage is used extensively in the new featurettes). --Doug Thomas

Customer Rating:
Summary: Grand Prix review
Comment: Great movie from the sixties, I remember vaguely some of the highlights but now I was able to relive it. I am very pleased.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Grand Prix
Comment: Excellent "car guys" movie, I forgot the excitement and real beauty of the photography and music. The audio and video are superb in this race fans classic. If you ever enjoyed Formula 1 racing, this is the one to watch on wide screen with 5.1 sound. It is really beautiful.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Grand Prix Deja Vu
Comment: This is re-release of the Movie Grand Prix with remastered audio. The movie is completely true to the original (including having an intermission and disk change) and the 5.1 audio is outstanding, you should really have your system hooked to a sound system to get the benefit of the music, sound effects and ambience.
The movie places you in the drivers cockpit of a "Formula 1" grand prix racer. What you see on the screen is exactly what the driver is seeing and doing. The actors were sent to Bob Boundrant High Performance driving school and they are really driving the race cars. This is the movie that got me convinced to get my SCCA regional license and start racing for real.
It shows it like it actually is.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Grand Prix
Comment: This is one of my favorite movies of all I. I couldn't wait for them to come out with this in DVD and now I have it Excellent.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Grand Prix
Comment: Definitely a classic movie with classic actors. Though dated, there is a fair amount of great racing in this movie. The insight into the lives of race car drivers is quite intriguing. My husband is a Formula-One fan, so it was fun to watch and recognize some of the famous racer names and the circuits. This is not a "must have" movie, but it , all-in-all , is a good buy if you are a fan.

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