The Making Of Grand Prix [1966] (NTSC) [DVD]

Very happy

This is called The Making of Grand Prix. However, it is not the making of featurette that I remember seeing soon after the film came out. The real making of film was at least a half hour long and showed how they 'invented' the air cannons that shot the cars into each other, the wall, the sea or whatever. There was also a neat clip of Brian Bedford being made up with MaxFactor blood for the scene at Monaco where James Garner puts him into the wall.Very disappointing really. Also very annoying that the marketing folks at Passport Productons thought we'd need to see their damn logo pasted on the screen for the entire film. I don't think they need to worry about this one getting ripped off.Right now, its all there is. So at least that's better than nothing. But as a homage to a great movie, it is a disapointing lost opportunity. The movie itself is due out on NTSC soon but I want a Region 2 version.

If, like me, your love of motor racing goes back to the 1960's and the era of Clark, Gurney and Surtees, this DVD doesn't deliver.I bought it with great expectation of seeing 'behind the scenes' of the John Frankenheimer film. Unfortunately this only takes up 15 minutes of an 80 minute 'programme'. The rest consists of a 'hodge-podge' of old motor racing clips, including the sad (lingering) site of dead bodies from the 1955 Le Mans disaster, and even worse, the dragging of Lorenzo Bandini from the remains of his Ferrari in Monaco in 1967. Oh, and significant 'profiles' of James Garner and Eva Marie Saint (not racing related!).As a racing fan I found the scenes rather sickening and only for those with a morbid fascination with death.

I know its daft but I purchased this by mistake thinking it was the actual film Grand Prix, must learn to concentrate more!especially when it was so poor! and as a previous reviewer said it is quite morbid! What amazes me is that they can publish a making of film without the original being available to purchase, a film I have had on my must purchase list for as long as I remember! Lets hope that the studio eventually think of releasing it.