This 2002 DVD was originally titled the more lurid “Quick and the Dead” when it was first released in the 1970s, and it is truly a ’70s piece of motor racing nostalgia, with a considerable helping of bad taste.
Stacy Keach, in typically ’70s over the top reverential tones, narrates an homage to Grand Prix, standing beside a car which isn’t even a Grand Prix car! The opening scene depicts Tom Pryce’s terrible fatal accident in the South African Grand Prix, when an errant marshal ran across the track to be hit by Pryce, killing them both. There are further scenes of David Purley trying unsuccessfully to pull Roger Williamson from his burning car at Zandvoort, Reggazoni’s burning machine in Spain, and Jochen Rindt’s body being removed from the Lotus at Monza in 1970. These are pretty objectionable scenes now, as they were then, though the poignant part is that there were some terrible years in the early 1970s when accidents were frighteningly common.
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