Downhill racer [videorecording] / Paramount ; a Wildwood International Ltd. production ; director of photography, Brian Probyn ; written by James Salter ; produced by Richard Gregson ; directed by Michael Ritchie.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Edition:
Special ed., widescreen.
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
c2009
Description:
1 videodisc (ca. 101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([18] p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Camilla Sparv, Karl Michael Vogler, Jim McMullan, Kathleen Crowley, Dabney Coleman, Kenneth Kirk, Oren Stevens, Jerry Dexter, Walter Stroud, Carole Carle, Rip McManus, Joe Jay Jalbert, Tom J. Kirk, Robin Hutton-Potts, Heini Schuler, Peter Rohr, Arnold Alpiger, Eddie Waldburger, Marco Walli. Booklet contains essay "Trailblazers" by Todd McCarthy. Originally released as a motion picture in 1969. Special features: "Redford and Salter" interview with Robert Redford and James Salter; "Coblenz, Harris and Jalbert" interview with Walter Coblenz, Richard Harris and Joe Jay Jalbert; Audio excerpts from seminar presented by Michael Ritchie at the American Film Institute in 1977; Trailer; "How fast?" featurette (1959).
Summary:
David Chappellet, a ruthlessly ambition skier competing for Olympic gold with an underdog American team in Europe, clashes with his coach, who tries to temper the upstart's narcissistic drive for glory.
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