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Racing at the Movies, Part 2
It’s time to go back to basics. As good as modern motor racing movies are, the entire genre is inarguably…
Racing at the Movies 2
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Le Mans — the most indulgent of all racing movies
LE MANS Released 1971 Director Lee Katzin, John Sturges Studio Cinema Center Films, National General Pictures Stars Steve McQueen Gross…
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Le Mans! Camera! Action
TAKEN FROM MOTOR SPORT, JUNE 1999 Not long ago, I spent a couple of hours sitting at a table in…
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Did he lose the plot?
Le Mans was the movie Steve McQueen most wanted to make. The ultimate bloke’s bloke was mates with Jackie Stewart…
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McQueen. One man and his movie
Sometimes you have an idea floating around in your head for days, weeks or even months, but in the case…
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'Steve McQueen wanted to be one of us racers'
Derek Bell recalls his unexpected friendship with Steve McQueen... “I’d only just started in sports cars, so I was pretty…
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In defence of McQueen's vision
TAKEN FROM MOTOR SPORT, OCTOBER 1970 One of the few attributes of the Le Mans 24 Hours race is that…
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Hollywood's need for speed: a history of racing movies
In 1895, the Lumiére brothers presented projected moving pictures to a paying audience for the first time. In 1896, commercial…
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The greatest racing films
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And the not-so-great racing movies
Greased Lightning (1977) This alleged biopic of African-American NASCAR racer Wendell Scott was nothing of the sort. While not a…
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Grand Prix — the game-changing film
GRAND PRIX Released 1966 Director John Frankenheimer Studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Stars James Garner, Yves Montand, Brian Bedford, Antonio Sabato Gross $20.8m…
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50 years on: Frankenheimer's Grand Prix movie
TAKEN FROM MOTOR SPORT, AUGUST 2016 He was a big-picture man with visions of grandeur, willing to risk his hard-won…
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James Garner: Silver Screen Racer
TAKEN FROM MOTOR SPORT JANUARY 2000 It has been 33 years since James Garner last walked on Monza’s soil. Then,…
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Racing movies: Why can't film directors get it right?
TAKEN FROM MOTORSPORTMAGAZINE.COM, OCTOBER 2019 If there is one genre of film I dislike more than any other, more than…
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Winning
WINNING Released 1969 Director James Goldstone Studio Universal Pictures Stars Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Robert Wagner Gross $14.6m (Budget $12m)…
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Winning: the movie that lit Paul Newman's passion for racing
TAKEN FROM MOTOR SPORT MAY 2019 Ask the man in the street to name a movie star racer and they…
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Paul Newman the racer: 'A regular guy in jeans'
TAKEN FROM MOTOR SPORT MAY 2019 Paul Newman had a strange request at the 1995 Daytona 24 Hours. The Oscar-winning actor and…
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The Paul Newman car collection in Adam Carolla's garage
TAKEN FROM MOTOR SPORT MAY 2019 How much would you pay for a piece of automotive history which came complete with a…
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Original film posters — a collectors' minefield
Cinema posters were not printed in huge quantities, and if not binned when showings were over were returned to the…
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From the film archive...
TAKEN FROM MOTOR SPORT JANUARY 1958 A popular winter motor-racing entertainment is the BRSCC Festival of Speed and Sport, which took…
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