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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
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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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Originally Posted by Oldman03
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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Originally Posted by lotech
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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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?


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He was a maverick.

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Originally Posted by deltakid
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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