The title of a 1966 movie directed by John Frankenheimer and starring James Garner. The film chronicals a racing season in the life of fictional Formula 1 race car driver Pete Aaron and his competitors. While much of the acting is wooden, and the storyline is, for the most part, melodramatic drivel, the racing footage remains to this day the best ever filmed. The Monaco scenes especially are wonderful. They were shot just prior to the actual Monaco Grand Prix on the real circuit, using dressed up Formula 3 cars. Many of the actors, including Garner, did their own driving, with the extras slots being filled by real F1 drivers. The techniques employed by Frankenheimer to get the racing shots were so successful that, despite all the advances in filmaking and special effects since 1966, he returned to them 32 years later for the car chases in 1998's Ronin, another movie which exists pretty much as backdrop for fast cars. The film also marked the Hollywood debut of Japan's greatest actor, Toshiro Mifune, and there are also cameos by British Formula 1 stars Graham Hill and Jim Clark.