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Grand Prix

Name: Grand Prix
Director: John Frankenheimer
Genre: Drama, Action
Released: 1966
Rating: 7.3
Cast: James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Yves Montand, Toshirō Mifune, Brian Bedford

The most daring drivers in the world have gathered to compete for the 1966 Formula One championship. After a spectacular wreck in the first of a series of races, American wheelman Pete Aron is dropped by his sponsor. Refusing to quit, he joins a Japanese racing team. While juggling his career with a torrid love affair involving an ex-teammate's wife, Pete must also contend with Jean-Pierre Sarti, a French contestant who has previously won two world titles.

1966 · Directed by John Frankenheimer · 176 min · Drama · Action · 17 frames

Tagline

All the glamour and greatness of the world's most exciting drama of speed and spectacle!

Crew

Screenplay: Robert Alan Aurthur
Written by: John Frankenheimer
Cinematography: Lionel Lindon
Edited by: Fredric Steinkamp, Henry Berman, Stu Linder, Frank Santillo
Music: Maurice Jarre
Production design: Richard Sylbert
Produced by: Edward Lewis

Cast

James Garner as Pete Aron
Eva Marie Saint as Louise Frederickson
Yves Montand as Jean-Pierre Sarti
Toshirō Mifune as Izō Yamura
Brian Bedford as Scott Stoddard
Jessica Walter as Pat Stoddard
Antonio Sabàto as Nino Barlini
Françoise Hardy as Lisa
Adolfo Celi as Agostini Manetta
Claude Dauphin as Hugo Simon

Production

Country: United States of America, France, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, Monaco
Language: Japanese, English, French, Italian, Portuguese
Studios: Cherokee Productions, Douglas & Lewis Productions, Joel Productions, John Frankenheimer Productions Inc.
Budget: $9,000,000
Box office: $20,800,000
Themes: car race, racing, race car driver, race car crash, 1960s, formula one (f1), motorsport, dramatic, excited

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Seconds — 1966
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Prophecy — 1979
The Train — 1964
Black Sunday — 1977
Ronin — 1998
Birdman of Alcatraz — 1962
The Manchurian Candidate — 1962

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