Grand Prix (1966)
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100% of critics liked it
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86% of users liked it
(3,963 ratings)
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.… More 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. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- John Frankenheimer
- Written By
- Robert Alan Aurthur, William Hanley
- Genres
- Drama, Classics
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Dec 21, 1966 Wide
- Studio
- MGM Home Entertainment
Critic Reviews
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Roger Moore, McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Still dazzling, and the movie Ron Howard's "Rush" is sure to be measured against.
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Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central
this idea that while anything's possible through technology, the debt of that ambition is paid out in blood.
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Peter Canavese, Groucho Reviews
Yes, the driving scenes dazzle, but Frankenheimer also embeds his 1966 Cinerama epic with some interesting commentary about risk-taking professions in general and the Formula One driver in particular. [Blu-ray]
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John J. Puccio, Movie Metropolis
Ah, the joys of movies on disc, to be able to watch the film again by clicking only on the racing sequences. They are more than worth the price of the BD. (Blu-ray Edition)
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John J. Puccio, Movie Metropolis
Despite its melodramatic glimpses into the drivers' private lives, the racing sequences more than make up for the deficiencies.
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Cast
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James Garner
as Pete Aron
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Eva Marie Saint
as Louise Frederickson
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Yves Montand
as Jean-Pierre Sarti
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Toshiro Mifune
as Izo Yamura
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Brian Bedford
as Scott Stoddard
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Jessica Walter
as Pat
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Antonio Sabato
as Nino Barlini
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Francoise Hardy
as Lisa
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Adolfo Celi
as Agostini Manetta
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Claude Dauphin
as Hugo Simon
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Enzo Fiermonte
as Guido
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Geneviève Page
as Monique Delvaux Sarti
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Jack Watson
as Jeff Jordan
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Donal O'Brien
as Wallace Bennett
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Jean Michaud
as Children's father
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Albert Remy
as Surgeon at Monte Carlo
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Rachel Kempson
as Mrs. Stoddard
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Ralph Michael
as Mr. Stoddard
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Alan Fordney
as Sportcaster
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Anthony Marsh
as Sportcaster
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Phil Hill
as Tim Randolph
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Graham Hill
as Bob Turner
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John Bryson
as Photographer David
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Evans Evans
as Mrs. Tim Randolph
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Arthur Howard
as Claude
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Bruce McLaren
as Douglas McClendon
- Jack Brabham
- Jim Russell
- Joakim Bonnier
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Richie Ginther
as John Hogarth
