Grand Prix (1966)

Plot: American Grand Prix driver Pete Aron is fired by his Jordan-BRM racing team after a crash at Monaco that injures his British teammate, Scott Stoddard. While Stoddard struggles to recover, Aron begins to drive for the Japanese Yamura team, and becomes romantically involved with Stoddard's estranged wife.
Stars: James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Yves Montand

Overly long racing movie that zooms along when on the track, but slows to a crawl when off. The acting is good enough, but the script/story can't justify a 3 hour run time. In 1966 the movie was very popular, no doubt due to the novel excitement of seeing Grand Prix on the big screen, but 50 years later its much less so. Garner is good as the main character, although Steve McQueen was supposedly the first choice for the role and and would've brought more authenticity and Pizzazz to the role. Garner is too nice of guy to play a ruthless bastard. Eva Marie Saint does what she can with a standard soap opera role.