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A Grand Memory; Grand Prix is back, this time on DVD.(Revs)
Byline: MARK VAUGHN
Grand Prix would be a great movie even if it came out today. But if it did come out today, you might assume most of the difficult racing shots had been done with special effects somewhere in the giant brain of a high-priced computer. The fact Grand Prix was filmed as you see it, with nothing digital, makes it all the more amazing an achievement, even by today's standards.
If you saw Grand Prix when it first came out, you might remember how thrilling it was to watch, to feel like you were right there in the car racing around the most famous circuits of Europe. If you didn't see it back in 1966 and you see it now for the first time, you might be just as thrilled.
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