Basically what you have here is a short and not all that informative film on the making of "Grand Prix" followed by two biographies which consisted mainly of a bunch of theactrical trailers and narration. The racing documentaries at the end were old newsreel clips.
I can't believe that anyone thought this was a worthy product.
Utter Trash
I was scared as soon as the disk started with a goof ball in a bad tux, sitting in a dimly lit room, introduced the making of Grand Prix. The quality of the introductory shots must have been done on a 1980's vintage VHS hand held. The film, as said in earlier reviews, is maybe 15 minutes long, and must have been done as a theater promotion, or as something shone on the old CBS Friday Night Movies used to show as filler in the 1960's. I can give you the accurate time, because I have not looked at the disk again due to embarrassment. What makes it worse is that I have been waiting for three months (as of late December 03') for the widescreen VHS version; sense there is no DVD available. Save your time and money!
DO NOT WASTE YOU MONEY
This is absolutely worthless! I can only echo the comments of others. I fast forwarded through it once and threw it in the trash.
A classic auto-racing movie starring Steve McQueen, Le Mans puts the audience in the driver's seat for what is often called the most grueling race in the world. The French auto race Le Mans is a 24-hour affair through the French countryside, a demanding ordeal for any driver. McQueen (Bullitt, The Great Escape) plays the American driver, locked in an intense grudge match with his German counterpart even as he wrestles with the guilt over causing an accident that cost the life of a close friend. McQueen is his usual stoic magnetic self, and the racing sequences are among the best ever committed to film. A solid character-driven story combines with raw visceral power to make Le Mans a rich tapestry of action and thrills. --Robert LaneMore Info about this DVD Director(s): Lee H. Katzin DVD Release Date: Released the 29 April 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Paul Newman plays a racecar driver, Frank Capua, who steps out of his professional and personal isolation long enough to marry a single mother, Elora (Joanne Woodward). The two have a brief but happy life together with Elora's 13-year-old son, Charley (Richard Thomas), but it comes to an end when Frank goes back on the racing circuit and Elora assuages her loneliness in the arms of her husband's chief rival, Luther (Robert Wagner). Frank checks out, and Charley travels across the country to find him and effect a reconciliation. A touching movie (with some good racing footage) by director James Goldstone, Winning is about the real pain of people who have become used to a certain way of safe, arm's-length living, and who have to learn to get beyond it to find redemption in... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Paul Newman - Joanne Woodward Director(s): James Goldstone DVD Release Date: Released the 16 March 1999 Usually ships in 24 hours
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I can't believe anyone on the planet would put this out on DVD. The case is actually a higher quality product. It opens and closes, it holds a DVD. (You might want to throw away the one that came in it, and use it to store something more valuable, like a Gary Coleman coaster.) The DVD itself is unmitigated garbage. It has nothing to do with the Making of Bullitt, it is a couple of bad biographies, and a short film about McQueen which you can get elsewhere. Plus, to top it all off it is "hosted" by some poor idiot who looks as though he was captured at the end of a cattle prod and made to dance in a lousy suit for his tormentors. (Who the hell is this guy? Sean McLaughlin? Never heard of him. Probably never will again. He does resemble the guy from Sex and the City, who was also in the old... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 23 September 2003 Usually ships within 24 hours
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An impressive visual encyclopedia, The World's Greatest F1 Cars covers the first 50 years of Formula One racing. The DVD begins with the stories of the Bugatti T51 and the Delage GP, which were basically stripped-down sports cars. Grand Prix aficionados will be thrilled with the detailed footage and narration on 103 cars ranging from early models like the Alfa Romeo 158, in which Giuseppe "Nino" Farina roared to the first F1 world title, to the Lotus 72 Ford (1970), which was the first car to try to achieve better aerodynamic downforce through body design, to the modern Ferrari 1996-2000. The DVD can be watched as a whole or can be broken down car by car. Also included is a "Classic F1 Experience" in which you race along via a camera mounted above the driver's helmet. The... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 29 January 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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