Grand Prix (1966) 1080p BluRay x265 HEVC DTS-SARTRE

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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Extras

• Pushing the Limit: The Making of Grand Prix - An absolutely fascinating documentary which features interviews with Garner, Saint and others alongside a wealth of vintage footage. The shoot was evidently tempestuous, as evidenced by Frankenheimer's quote "I don't know how the hell we ever did that film" which starts the featurette out, and those roiling emotions are well on display in a couple of the clips here. This is well above average stuff and any fan of the film should spend time watching this featurette.

• The Style and Sound of Speed - Saul Bass is usually thought of only as an iconic title designer for a slew of Hitchcock and James Bond films, but he actually served as a visual consultant for several iconic films including Hitchcock's Psycho (Bass helped plan the shower sequence) and Kubrick's Spartacus. Bass also contributed on several levels to Grand Prix, helping to do the pioneering split screen technique as well as some of the sound design elements and other special effects. This excellent overview helps to highlight his contributions to the film.

• Flat Out: Formula One in the Sixties - A nice history of racing in general, and Formula One in particular, including a host of interviews with real life race drivers.

• Brands Hatch: Chasing the Checkered Flag - A nice tour of one of Britain's most iconic courses, setting of one of Grand Prix's most famous sequences.

• Grand Prix: Challenge of the Champions - A fun vintage featurette made to promote the film before its initial release.

• Trailer

• Extras offer ENG, FRE, GER, JPN, POR and SPA subtitles.