Grand Prix Movie Alert

Hi all, I just wanted to let everyone know, Turner Classics Movie Channel TCM is showing Grand Prix, at 4 Eastern, 3 Central, today, April 7th, Thursday. That is all.

I accidentally bumped into this film on TCM, but too late. I only got the big Monza round final where Jean-Pierre dies horribly (slides through auto rail down onto backstraight at bridge). I really opened my eyes when I could swear to have seen Graham Hill (no actor in the world can render this man in any degree of fidelity, hehe) and Phil Hill! It looked like a classic movie with so-and-so actor performances, but great footage, authentic from out-board cameras. Did you see how the suspensions were over-working it at the banked turns??? Crikey, no wonder people died back then! I loved the "crooky" look of all the team owners and bosses, hehehehe. Especially the Ferrari big brass was hilarious. I will certainly look for any reschedule of this film. ---A--- On 07.04.2005 19:16, Jake wrote: > Hi all, I just wanted to let everyone know, Turner Classics Movie > Channel TCM is showing Grand Prix, at 4 Eastern, 3 Central, today, > April 7th, Thursday. That is all. >

Asgeir, You *did* see the real drivers (Hill and Hill) and if you had been fortunate enough to catch the whole film, you would have seen many others. The names of the teams and actors central to the action were chosen to simulate the real-life namesakes: Jean-Pierre Sart = John Surtees, for example. A great period movie. I trot it out for an airing every six months or so, reliving the days (yes, I saw it several times!) when it appeared in Cinerama in the only such-equipped movie theatre in Sydney. Bruce. "Asgeir Nesoen" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:d3o796$gbe$[email hidden]... > I accidentally bumped into this film on TCM, but too late. I only got > the big Monza round final where Jean-Pierre dies horribly (slides > through auto rail down onto backstraight at bridge).

On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 07:24:37 +1000, Bruce Kennewell wrote:

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> Asgeir, > You *did* see the real drivers (Hill and Hill) and if you had been fortunate > enough to catch the whole film, you would have seen many others. > The names of the teams and actors central to the action were chosen to > simulate the real-life namesakes: Jean-Pierre Sart = John Surtees, for > example. > A great period movie. I trot it out for an airing every six months or so, > reliving the days (yes, I saw it several times!) when it appeared in > Cinerama in the only such-equipped movie theatre in Sydney. >

I managed to capture it on DVD (two discs) when Arte aired it the other year (in German and French), so if somebody's interested please get in touch. cheers, uwe -- GPG Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61