GRAND PRIX

Grand Prix Saul Bass

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[bwanasan]

Brilliant. Thanks for uploading!

[studiobrazil]

:) thanks

[WOZERD]

How old is this movie? 40 years? Nearly 50 years old? I watched it at the Summit Cinerama in Detroit when it first came out. The opening sequence still, to this day, gives me goosebumps.

Like others on here have said, turned me into a road racer-- not a car, a motorcycle. But, everytime I would grid (back then), and the revs would build in anticipation, I would think of this scene.

Great-- thanks!

[badbob91]

THANK YOU finnaly some one up loaded the beggining, i love the slide throttle bodies!

[Mathview]

An epic Saul Bass title design. Photo montage excellence. TY for posting. Original film was shot in Cinerama. That means that Frankenheimer had to mount Cinerama film cameras on the formula one race cars, drive them at speed, on the Gran Prix tracks, in traffic, and ... well... Amazing.

[votechrisfrandsen]

Yes yes and now in Austin!

[carlosboratti]

Un pelicula de primera. Recuerdos de otra epoca.

[Kirk Conway]

yea my dad got the album yrs ago and that was all i could see or relate to in the movie, I got the video about 9 yrs ago so i can watch it anytime i want,

Im tinking about getting the movie on DVD so it look's better,

Id like to find a decent cond BRM P-261 if there was one that could be had for a fair price.

[MxAxRxK]

yup, and saul bass did the montages. i actually just got the Grand Prix sound track on record not to long ago!

[Kirk Conway]

amen to that big trime,

F-1 is soo boring these days, ugly cars, too much tech stuff and stupid rev into the ozone type engines,

[Kirk Conway]

John Frankenheimer directed it, and Maurice Jarre did the music for it,

I fell asleep in the theatre watching the slow scenes, but when that ferrari 312 revved up at monza after sarti stalled and got it started again?

was like the whole theater echoed soo loud, mann

I was up and watching it to the end,

Ill never forget it.

[Mark Muffs]

you got that right. The opening scenes got me hooked when I first saw the film in early 1967 (we couldn't get in the month before as the theater was always packed!) What sets this film apart from others is that a lot of what you see is the real stuff--the cars and the racing scenes. My only complaint was that Sarti should have been allowed to survive his fatal accident in the end and retire (Yves Montand was 45 at the time and most drivers are ready to hang it up at that age)

[Elden DeMann]

Saw this film at a drive in when I was a teenager... loved Formula racing since then. Great Film !!

[Peter Nowicki]

@unionrdr Fangio was more of a man than any new scrawny F1 drivers. Have you ever seen his muscles he needed to drive the car. Definatly more manly cars too.