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Originally Posted by 04Stefan07
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One of my favourite films made by the late, great John Frankenheimer,
one of my favourite directors.
I have the DVD (two disks) and remember first seeing it at the movies
in 1966 in wide-screen Super Panavision 70.
Technically remarkable because the big cameras were mounted on
the cars and could be remotely panned.
Music by Maurice Jarre (Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ2uTpbCvTQ
Back in the good old days of movie extravaganzas where the film
would effectively start with an extended musical overture lasting
several minutes even before the curtain opened to the roaring MGM lion.
Plus you got an intermission for choc tops and jaffas and
another overture before the curtain would open again.
Not like movies now where you put an actor in front of a green screen.
Just put James Garner and his fellow actors in real racing cars and have
them drive at speed on circuits such as Monaco and Monza!
Visually stunning opening credit sequence created by design
graphics virtuoso Saul Bass.
See
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RILdsjeL_4
Everyone who ever saw it at the time never forgot the split screens.
Special effects shot "in-camera". The Monza banked tracked sequences
are still visually stunning to this day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n74OVe3qFM