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Garner stared in what most racing fans call the best racing movie ever made Grand Prix. I saw it in cinemascope when it came out. The man could drive and did a lot of the driving in the movie. Garner and Graham Hill in the rain at Spa ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/VNDQP1Zv/JamesG.jpg)
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I forgot all about "Grand Prix". No other racing movie has ever come close to comparing with it. Sort of like the chase scene in "Bullitt" - hasn't been bested yet and probably won't be. I saw Grand Prix in Cinerama when it came out in 1966.
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He was Combat Infantry in Korea. Good friends with Waylon Jennings.
It’s amazing with the backgrounds of some of these people they end up libtards.
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I went to Garner's wiki page, he really was a libtard.
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One gets that impression about James Garner. Very believable story.
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Ya know, he made quite a few western movies and I read several years ago that some of the western movie actors had a quick draw contest. I dont remember all that were in the contest, but IIRC, James Arness, Clint Eastwood, Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Lee Van Cleef, Ben Johnson, Richard Boone and several more competed. James Garner won. Little known, but Sammy Davis Jr was at the top of that list.
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If God wanted you to walk and carry things on your back, He would not have invented stirrups and pack saddles
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He was great in the Streets of Laredo
If God wanted you to walk and carry things on your back, He would not have invented stirrups and pack saddles
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I forgot all about "Grand Prix". No other racing movie has ever come close to comparing with it. Sort of like the chase scene in "Bullitt" - hasn't been bested yet and probably won't be. I saw Grand Prix in Cinerama when it came out in 1966. There was one other great racing movie, Lemans (1970) with Steve McQueen. Garner was great in Grand Prix. I like'm both equally.
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You people have sure watched A LOT of TeeVee
one day you’ll give an account before The Great White Throne for all of this time wasted that you could have been winning souls for The LORD
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Appreciated his acting skill. Very good with facial expressions and creating different types of personalities for his characters. He was versatile to play both drama and comedy. I believe he credited Henry Fonda with teaching him the importance of facial expressions.
My favorites performances of his were Grand Prix, The Americanization of Emily, The Wheeler Dealers, Cash McCall and The Great Escape.
It was nice to see his old character woo and win much younger Sally Fields in Murphy’s Romance, although the character he portrayed definitely had liberal values.
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IMHO, his absolute best movie was one that never seems to get credit "36 Hours". A Psych movie about the Germans trying to convince him he had amnesia and get the date for the DDay invasion. Very seldom on TV, but well worth the time.
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He drove the pace car at the Indy 500 at least one year, maybe more.
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Gerald McRaney is a turd tamper. Is that why he's married to a gorgeous woman?
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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IMHO, his absolute best movie was one that never seems to get credit "36 Hours". A Psych movie about the Germans trying to convince him he had amnesia and get the date for the DDay invasion. Very seldom on TV, but well worth the time. I thought that was a great movie too.
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A guy who runs the Baja 500 in a Cutlass 442 can't be all bad. ![[Linked Image from speednik.com]](https://www.speednik.com/files/2014/08/vintage-monday-1968-ford-f-100-class-8-racer6.jpg)
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