Downhill Racer
How fast must a man go to get from where he's at?
Overview
An ambitious young skier, determined to break all existing records, is contemptuous of the teamwork advocated by the US coach when they go to Europe for the Olympics.
- Budget
- $16,500,000
- Production
- Paramount Pictures, Wildwood Enterprises
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Cast
Robert Redford
David Chappellet
Gene Hackman
Eugene Claire
Camilla Sparv
Carole Stahl
Karl Michael Vogler
Machet
Jim McMullan
Johnny Creech
Kathleen Crowley
American Newspaper Woman
Dabney Coleman
Mayo
Joe Jay Jalbert
Tommy Erb
Harald Dietl
Christian Doermer
Michael Gempart
Werner Heyking
Noam Pitlik
Sylvester Stallone
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Michael Ritchie
- Writers
- James Salter
- Producers
- Richard Gregson
- Cinematography
- Brian Probyn
- Composer
- Kenyon Hopkins
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talisencrw
September 28, 2016
If ANY film I have ever seen comes the closest to taking a sophisticated look at what most of the world would consider to be the spoiled-rotten, prima donna, mega-talented amateur athlete (I would add 'American', but I believe they would be like Redford's characterization even if they weren't), Michael Ritchie nails it. Way underrated. And it makes you wonder, especially with the poster pictured here, if the title's a double entendre (and not just slickly-marketed sex-advertising), not merely fo…
Wuchak
February 7, 2022
_**The best (and only) major film about downhill ski racing**_ Robert Redford was in his prime as David Chappellet, a taciturn loner from Colorado, who competes with an underdog American team for Olympic gold in Europe. Gene Hackman co-stars as the coach who tries to temper Chappellet's narcissistic and reckless drive for glory. "Downhill Racer" came out late in 1969 hot on the heels of Redford's success with "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." Unfortunately it wasn't marketed properly a…