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21 December 1966 (USA)
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American Grand Prix driver Pete Aron is fired by his Jordan-BRM racing team after a crash at Monaco that injures his British teammate...
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Awards:
Won 3 Oscars.
Another 4 nominations
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User Comments:
a period piece-- but of a great period
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | James Garner | ... | Pete Aron |
 | Eva Marie Saint | ... | Louise Frederickson |
 | Yves Montand | ... | Jean-Pierre Sarti |
 | Toshirô Mifune | ... | Izo Yamura |
| Brian Bedford | ... | Scott Stoddard |
 | Jessica Walter | ... | Pat Stoddard |
| Antonio Sabato | ... | Nino Barlini |
| Françoise Hardy | ... | Lisa |
| Adolfo Celi | ... | Agostini Manetta |
| Claude Dauphin | ... | Hugo Simon |
| Enzo Fiermonte | ... | Guido |
| Geneviève Page | ... | Monique Delvaux-Sarti |
| Jack Watson | ... | Jeff Jordan |
| Donald O'Brien | ... | Wallace Bennett (as Donal O'Brien) |
| Jean Michaud | ... | Children's father |
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179 min
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Color (Metrocolor)
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2.20 : 1 more
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70 mm 6-Track (Westrex Recording System) (70 mm prints) |
Mono (35 mm prints)
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Canada:G (Nova Scotia) |
Iceland:L |
Singapore:PG |
Australia:PG |
West Germany:12 (f) |
Finland:K-12 |
Sweden:15
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Frankenheimer's first film in color.
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Revealing mistakes: When Scott Stoddard's car crashes in the first Grand Prix race you can see a white tendril of smoke shooting out towards the car. This is the hydrogen pump used to propel the fake formula 1 car with a dummy in it to make the crash seem more realistic and should not be in the shot.
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Quotes:
[Addressing Pete Aron in the cockpit]
Jeff Jordan: Let's try to get the season off to a good start. Shall we? Drive the car! Don't try to stand it on its bloody ear!
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Jeff Jordan: Let's try to get the season off to a good start. Shall we? Drive the car! Don't try to stand it on its bloody ear!
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Referenced in Pushing the Limit: The Making of 'Grand Prix' (2006) (V)
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It's hard to rate this film. Its got a soap opera plot pasted on to some really fine cinematography, editing, music and racing sequences. The real stars of this film are the cars, the beautiful F1 'cigar' cars of the 60's with their exposed engines and elegant lines. Within a handful of years aerodynamics and advertising would change the look of racing forever. Even the plot hints at the change taking place at the time-- from the gentlemen's league of the 50's to the ravenously commercial and brutally competitive environment that Formula 1 was to become. Frankenheimer followed the tour through a season, to the storied old tracks such as Nurburgring, Spa and Monza (before safety and television considerations changed them to much shorter, less idiosyncratic shadows of their former selves). There are cameos by Graham Hill, Bruce McLaren, Jim Clark and Lorenzo Bandini, names tinged with tragedy in retrospect. Technically this film is quite an achievement. Many of its developments, however, did not really take, such a multiple images, and the splicing of soft music to intense action scenes. The film, then, is not one of great importance in movie history. But there are a lot of racing fans who hold a special, if not top, place for Grand Prix in their lists of favourite films.