"Thirty thousand? Further, Redford had Barrymore under contract to put the pilot film together, but Barrymore simply threw up his hands and left. In Downhill Racer, the fresh-faced young Redford plays David Chappellet (no relation), a fresh-faced young skier from Colorado who is also a complete and utter asshole, leaving nobody unscathed in his path when he joins the U.S. ski team in Europe with the intention of the winning in the Gold in the Olympics. They became the nucleus of the film's "American Team." Brought in to replace an injured skier, David Chapellett (Robert Redford, doing most of his own skiing) on his first day with the American Alpine team, bridling with coach Claire (Gene Hackman) and jousting a bit with teammate D-K (Kenneth Kirk) in Michael Ritchie's Downhill Racer, 1969.> Ever since he and his wife built themselves a Winter home six years ago in the snowy Wasatch Mountains outside Provo, Utah, Redford has been obsessed with skiing and making a great film about it. Other racers, mostly six Swiss, became the European ski opposition: the French star, the Austrian star and so on. For the film, the "sheriff" is the lead racer on the team who breaks his leg, and Chappellet is called in to replace him. Up-and-coming ski racing talent Mikaela Shiffrin entered the start house on Friday morning at her first career World Cup race competing in a giant slalom in the Czech Republic. He ran into opposition from Robert Riger of ABC who had included some French TV network footage in the network's reels of the Olympics, (part of which Redford wanted to use). Robert Redford and Joe Jay Jalbert on the set of “Downhill Racer.” New York – Joe Jay Jalbert, accomplished ski racer and founder of the globally renowned international sports production and distribution company Jalbert Productions International, was inducted Saturday night April 10 into the U.S. [18], On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 85% based on 26 reviews, with an average rating of 7.13/10. Negotiating out of the impasse with International Management gave Redford another lesson in what the ski world is like today. "My motivation was to erase the bad feeling between Hollywood and the ski world. Sundance Institute With the financial proceeds of his acting success, starting with his salaries from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Downhill Racer, Redford bought an entire ski area on the east side of Mount Timpanogos northeast of Provo, Utah, called "Timp Haven", which was renamed " Sundance ". "You can absolutely quote me," said Redford, "Mark McCormack, Michaels and that gang at International Management are a bunch of heavies." Ritchie made his directorial debut with Downhill Racer , bringing an innovative, minimalist directing style to the screenplay scripted by novelist James Salter. ABOUT A MONTH AGO, for the first time since I saw it (twice) when it came out in 1970, I watched Michael Ritchie’s skiing movie “Downhill Racer,” starring Robert Redford. The difficulties were heroic in size. [8] Ebert wrote: Without bothering to explain much of the technical aspect of skiing, Downhill Racer tells us more about the sport than we imagined a movie could. Jay Michaels of IM was not buying Redford's idea. Robert was a scrappy kid who stole hubcaps in school and lost his college baseball sch… Insiders of ski racing will see a great deal in Downhill Racer that is familiar to them, which is a tribute to Redford's doggedness. When David goes home to visit his father we see where he got his emotional approach to living. [8], In his review for The New York Times, Roger Greenspun called Downhill Racer "a very good movie". Coming from a background of rural poverty, he is fiercely determined to achieve fame and fortune. They would help by adding a healthy slice of authenticity to the film. She wants to make love to him, and does, but he is so limited, so incapable of understanding her or anything beyond his own image, that she drops him. [22] Schickel wrote: Downhill Racer is precisely what we have waited so long to see—a small, tense, expertly made (and, on occasion, surprisingly funny) film about a newly chic form of athletic competition—Alpine skiing. The Criterion Collection DVD was released on November 17, 2009. The joy of these action sequences is counterpointed by the daily life of the ski amateur. [2] The original inspiration for the character is said to be Colorado's Buddy Werner of Steamboat Springs, (Chappellet was said to be from Idaho Springs, Colorado). [22], "How to succeed in racing without really racing", "For 'Downhill Racer,' Time Is the Master", The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Downhill_Racer&oldid=992254763, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen, This page was last edited on 4 December 2020, at 09:00. Although Robert Redford passed on Polanski's offer to star in both films, the young actor soon attached himself to the skiing film, taking it on as a pet project. The next week, Chappellet runs into Carole in Wengen and is annoyed that she never called and that she is with another man. He is thronged by elated fans and teammates in the finish area. Sundance Resort, Robert Redford’s idyllic Utah retreat, offers a luxury experience in a down-home setting that Recalls the golden age of the sport. First, Redford ran to other sources, such as ABC, for additional footage. Redford started again in 1968 with a tentative okay to make a film which would prove that "two hours of snow won't make an audience feel cold.". ROBERT GINNA: Bob Redford had commissioned Jim to write "Downhill Racer," an original screenplay. And he gets there (spoiler? [4] The off-season scenes were filmed in Colorado: the track scene at Potts Field on the east campus of the University of Colorado in Boulder,[12] and the hometown street scenes in Idaho Springs, thirty miles (50 km) west of Denver. He never does quite understand why. He travels to Zurich to Machet's office to find her, but learns she is spending Christmas with her family. Quite obviously, they include capturing on color film the sheer beauty of the white world in which racers live. In late December 1968, Ritchie signed on as director. Dating from 1969, Downhill Racer holds up remarkably well both as a character study and a visually impressive journey into the world of Olympic skiing. As a couple of modern culture heros, college graduates in no hurry to pick up with the hurly-burly of making an eight-hour-a-day-living, they were intelligent, observant, sure of themselves and having their go at Europe. DOWNHILL RACER was director Michael Ritchie's first feature film. With Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Camilla Sparv, Karl Michael Vogler. [11] Most of the skiing footage was shot from January 11 to February 1, 1969, during four World Cup races: Internationales Lauberhorn in Wengen, Internationales Hahnenkamm-Rennen in Kitzbühel, Grand Prix de Megève, and Arlberg-Kandahar in Sankt Anton am Arlberg. One night in Grenoble, they discussed the central character of David Chappellet. He had cut his knee to the bone in a snowmobile accident just before leaving for Europe. When the camera crews ran over to the limp, motionless Joe Jay and lifted his head, he whispered, "Are they still filming?". Chappellet is unfeeling for his competitors, unkind to his … 4, Peter Rohr, racing for the Paramounts. After a brief confrontation, he realizes their relationship is over. He was known for a reckless style but broke his leg in training two months before the 1960 Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley in which he would have been a favorite for a medal in the downhill. Werner burst upon the downhill racing scene in Europe in the late 1950s and was the first American to win an F.I.S. Bludhorn added a proviso: Redford had to come in with a pilot film that would convice Paramount finally to release the cool million. I soon stopped doing that, because while Redford may be an Orson Welles (ego and all) under the skin, as I suspected, he really comes on as a good, all-round fellow. According to Redford, "All it meant to them was a free lunch. American actor Robert Redford at a ski resort during the filming of 'Downhill Racer', April 1969. American downhill skier David Chappellet (Robert Redford) arrives in Wengen, Switzerland, to join the U.S. ski team, along with fellow newcomer D. K. Bryan (Kenneth Kirk). [4], Sylvester Stallone appeared as an extra in the restaurant scene. From a distance, the skiers seem to have the effortless natural grace of birds in flight. Salter's inspiration for the character was the 1964 Olympic silver medal winner Billy Kidd of Vermont, who conveyed an "arrogant and aloof" quality. Also, if you could build your own ski … The movie balances nicely between this level, and the exuberance of its outdoor location photography. The project came about because, as Redford says during an interview for a DVD extra, there had never been a good skiing drama. Coming from a background of rural poverty, he is fiercely determined to achieve fame and fortune. While the character ultimately took on aspects of both role models, Salter's original scenes of tense dynamics between Chappellet and the coach survived the writing process. [4] Written by James Salter, based on the 1963 novel The Downhill Racers by Oakley Hall, the film is about a talented downhill skier who joins the United States ski team in Europe to compete in international skiing competitions. They weren't a bit impressed that a movie was being made. If he got no help from Americans, a couple of Europeans pitched in. Redford, tired but game, has just brought home the footage needed from Europe: 300,000 feet of 35mm and 16mm film shot largely in World Cup races at St. Anton, Kitzbuhel, Megeve and Wengen. Natalie Wood, in Wengen to watch the filming, fell while skiing and broke her leg. [9], In 1969, a $6 million lawsuit was filed by Buck Holland and Jan Schimmel claiming that the film was based on their story Devil On His Hills, which they gave to Redford, and requesting Paramount to stop referring to the film being based on Hall's book. He and Redford were close. Afterwards, he shows little interest in the girl's feelings. Lots of good skiing action leading to an exciting climax. At one point, a special train carrying pastries was run up twice a day from Grindelwald to the Klein Scheidegg. It could be that Redford is just the man to come up with the first authentic, exciting piece of film to get inside the skin of ski racing, a film that shows us, in a way that only a good film can, what the human dangers and human grace of the World Cup circuit--and by extension, the whole sport--really are.ving their go at Europe. Not that there have been many. At Kitzbühel, Chappellet wins the Hahnenkamm, but afterwards his cockiness alienates his teammates and his coach who feel he is only out for himself. Joe Jay, enacting a fall for one sequence, overdid and wiped out three spectators (a new high for authenticity on the project. Mayo responds, "Well it's not exactly a team sport, is it?" The recipient of the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2002, he is also the founder of the Sundance Film Festival.In 2014, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He started toward his goal in 1967, getting Paramount's okay to hire a writer to do an original script to be called The Downhill Racers. And then trying to corral everybody..."Redford turns gray at the memory. When an actor of Redford's stature gambles several hundred thousand dollars, because there haven't been many parts written for a man in a leg cast, not since The Man Who Came to Dinner, and there are not likely to be any available, either. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images Little by little Redford and his producer, Richard Gregson (husband of Natalie Wood), put the project together (hiring actors, arranging for European crews and finding a good director, Michael Ritchie. This was more than was shot on Doctor Zhivago. There has been no da Vinci, no Michelangelo to immortalized the slalom racer. Chappellet is more interested in Machet's attractive assistant Carole Stahl (Camilla Sparv). When Bludhorn saw the pilot film he turned to Redford and said, "Go ahead, you've got it." Downhill Racer was released in 1969 with a star-studded cast that included Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, and even a cameo from Sylvester Stallone. As the German approaches the final schuss, he crashes, and Chappellet becomes an Olympic gold medal champion. During the off-season, Chappellet and Carole continue to see each other. Frankly, no one in any cultural medium has really made it with a ski subject. The plot thickens. Directed by Michael Ritchie. Chappellet drives into town and picks up an old girlfriend and they make love in the back seat of his father's old Chevrolet. Dating from 1969, Downhill Racer holds up remarkably well both as a character study and a visually impressive journey into the world of Olympic skiing. ), but as the old saying goes, what price glory? Sylvester Stallone appeared in one scene as an extra in his film debut. It was not possible to buy just plain pastries in Switzerlandthe train carried the world's finest. Charles Robert Redford, Jr. was born on August 18, 1936, in Santa Monica, California, to Martha (Hart), from Texas, and Charles Robert Redford, an accountant for Standard Oil, who was originally from Connecticut. Downhill Racer (1969) is the feature debut of Michael Ritchie, the first project that frustrated actor and future movie star Robert Redford developed for himself and the first of Redford’s proposed trilogy about the meaning of “winning” in American culture. Robert Redford, in the title role, plays an egotistical loner aiming for Olympic Gold. "First," Redford had argued, "something like The Downhill Racers has never been done before. Soon after, Redford found his director and decided to make the film cheaply in Europe. You produce it, write it, direct it, anything you want.". Quietly cocky Robert Redford joins U.S. ski team as downhill racer and clashes with the team's coach, played by Gene Hackman. Both men were sent for by team coach Eugene Claire (Gene Hackman) to replace one of his top skiers Tommy Herb (Joe Jay Jalbert) who was recently injured during an FIS competition. He meant the million. "[19] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 89 out of 100, based on 15 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[20]. Of the two Hackman has a far more interesting character. [21] Writing about the lead character David Chappellet, Greenspun observed, "His world is that international society of the well-exercised inarticulate where the good is known as 'really great,' and the bad is signified by silence. We were over there on the World Cup race circuit, and people from whom I had expected help were no help at all." Let's face it, It Happened in Sun Valley is not about skiing. That Touch of Mink DVD $14.96 The Ghost And Mrs. Muir DVD $11.21 Forbidden Hollywood: The Pre-Code Era (1930-1934): When Sin Ruled the Movies Book $22.95 Reviews: He tried to argue that if International Management represented the U.S. Two weeks before the Olympics, after a day of training at Wengen, Chappellet challenges Creech to a one-on-one race, and the two take off to the bottom as the coaches looks on in horror. "How many people watch at the Hahnenkamm?" Ski Team, they ought to be glad he was making the film because it would be good for the team. "You can absolutely quote me," said Redford, "Mark McCormack, Michaels and that gang at International Management are a bunch of heavies." Dating from 1969, Downhill Racer holds up remarkably well both as a character study and a visually impressive journey into the world of Olympic skiing. [6], Downhill Racer was filmed on location in Kitzbühel and Sankt Anton am Arlberg in Austria, Wengen, Switzerland, Megève and Grenoble in France, and Boulder and Idaho Springs in Colorado, United States. The movie is about an American skier who joins the U.S team to compete in tournaments in Europe. They would help by adding a healthy slice of authenticity to the film. Raised in the small town of Idaho Springs, Colorado, Chappellet is a loner with a single-minded focus on becoming a skiing champion, and shows little interest in being a team player. Coming from a background of rural poverty, he is fiercely determined to achieve fame and fortune. [4] Parts of the film were also shot at Sundance in Utah. As a couple of modern culture heros, college graduates in no hurry to pick up with the hurly-burly of making an eight-hour-a-day-living, they were intelligent, observant, sure of themselves andoo. The German makes his way to the finish area, and Chappellet looks into his eyes briefly before being carried off in victory. The character Redford plays, David Chappellet, is a very bleak and grimly determined individual (Remember Bruno in The Blue Max?) in Wengen to watch the filming, fell while skiing and broke her leg. Joe Jay Jalbert, turned cameraman, skied behind them, just as fast, handling a 15-pound, 35mm camera. [4] The interior scenes of Chappellet's Idaho Springs house were filmed at Paramount Studios in southern California. Bob Beattie had been considered as the technical advisor, but for starters, he had asked more money than the director, Ritchie, was getting. You say it can be made for around a million. The team's top racer, Johnny Creech (Jim McMullan), tells assistant coach Mayo (Dabney Coleman), "He's never been for the team, and he never will be." Downhill Racer is a 1969 American sports drama film starring Robert Redford, Gene Hackman and Camilla Sparv, [3] and was the directorial debut of Michael Ritchie. After attempts to develop the project stalled, the new head of Paramount production, Robert Evans, used the project to entice Roman Polanski, a skiing enthusiast, to direct the film Rosemary's Baby for the studio. "The team members just acted like bodies." And it does a skillful job of involving us in the competition without really being a movie about competition. "I signed up with Head to use their skis in the picture," said Redford, "and all the other ski manufacturers tried to shoot me down." The website's critics consensus reads, "Downhill Racer plunges the viewer thrillingly into the action of the sport -- and continues to hold the attention as a thoughtful drama. Bob Beattie finally got Redford permission to film at the Roch Cup. This is where I started observing him with my writer's eye. Directed by Michael Ritchie. He finally tired of explaining his blue, skin-tight, American Team "cat suit" and simply muttered, "The ankle is better, much better, thanks. The man who is going to change all this, if he has guessed right, is an actor. downhill race. Ueli Gertsch, of ski binding fame, and Marc Hodler, president of FIS, skiing's international governing body, got permission for Redford to run his "racers" before and after four of the World Cup events of 1969: the Hahnenkamm at Kitzbuhel, Austria; the Arlberg-Kandahar at St. Anton, Austria; the Lauberhorn at Wengen, Switzerland; the Grand Prix at Megeve, France. Naturally, It was quite a thrill for the Burke Mountain Academy racer who turned 16 on Sunday. Beneath perusal we have had The Downhill Racers by Squaw Valley resident Oakley Hall (way off the mark), Snow Gods by Frederic Morton, who could favorably be described as the Jacqueline Susann of ski fiction, and The Ski Bum by the talented Romain Gary, a French writer of note whose talent failed him in this one. A gag reel is composed of all the stuff that is funny because of the deliberate clowning of a crew bored out its collective mind (movie making is nothing if not repetitious. After a chance encounter at a bakery, he and Carole spend some time with each other. Chappellet finishes the season with several impressive victories ensuring his place on next season's Olympic team. "Not many people did. A reprint from the November 1969 issue of SKI Magazine. [15], Downhill Racer premiered at the Granada Theatre in Reno, Nevada, on October 28, 1969. [17], Downhill Racer was released on DVD in Region 2 format on August 13, 2007 by Paramount Home Entertainment. There are the anonymous hotel rooms, one after another, and the deadening continual contact with the team members, and the efforts of the coach ... to hold the team together and placate its financial backers in New York. This one-on-one interview profiles Robert Redford, legendary actor, passionate skier and environmentalist, and resort operator on the issues facing our sport today. [2] Redford, however, saw the Chappellet character as being more like Spider Sabich, the dynamic skier from rural California, who finished fifth that year in the slalom. The Redford operation, which was courageously trying to do all the filming on the actual courses instead of on faked courses or studio setups, caused some consternation in Europe. I have seen him come skiing almost over his head down the trails at Alta and Sundance, with his knee still bad and when there was no reason for it except that he wanted to go fast for the hell of it. Alexander was also in a legal dispute to gain executive producer credit. They meet up again in Wengen, ski the slopes together, and eventually make love. Wardrobe Credit: Cynthia May Background Let’s kick off a winter #CarWeek with an Alpine vibe, specifically the yellow Porsche that Robert Redford motors … They were marvelous.". As it turned out, Barrier "faded out," as Redford put it. Discomfort and deliverance to Mammoth and back, © 2020 Pocket Outdoor Media Inc. All Rights Reserved. He started toward his goal in 1967, getting Paramount's okay to hire a writer to do an original script to be called The Downhill Racers. The first post of 2019 looks back to Robert Redford’s timeless winter style as the titular ski champion in Michael Ritchie’s Downhill Racer. Irwin Shaw failed miserably to come up with a good, short, ski story. Hemingway came closest in the short story form, but his focus was not on skiing. Robert's mother died in 1955, the year after he graduated from high school. Focused on directing Rosemary's Baby, Polanski soon left the project, and the studio sued Redford for walking away from the starring role. Such were the conditions fo the filming. In the final race of the season at the Hahnenkamm-Rennen in Kitzbühel, Austria, he crashes. Sometimes the racers scared themselves so much they refused to continue running; their facial expressions should be authentic. Chappellet is unfeeling for his competitors, unkind to his … Robert Redford and Joe Jay Jalbert on the set of “Downhill Racer.” New York – Joe Jay Jalbert, accomplished ski racer and founder of the globally renowned international sports production and distribution company Jalbert Productions International, was inducted Saturday night April 10 into the U.S. One gag reel shot shows a stark naked skier coming down in full egg position. When it comes to film culture, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, only a modest artistic success, has yet to have an equivalent in skiing. After waiting several days alone, Chappellet realizes that she is not coming. Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936) is a retired American actor, director and activist. Close up, though, he makes us see they are engaged in a brutal, breath-stealing ordeal, and the contrast gripped me as strongly as anything I have recently seen on the screen. "He didn't trust the project," said Redford. It may lead to a fine flick. He was about to fly to Hollywood to start editing The Downhill Racers, and he was also working on the next project which his own production company, Wildwood Productions, was planning. I had seen the 1969 film several times as a youngster in the theater and on TV, but never after actually being a downhill racer myself. He came back to the United States only when he was broke. A million would build a fairsized gondola, but it makes meager support for a full-length, 35mm film. Our exclusive interview with Robert Redford headlines the January issue of SKI. It could be that Redford is just the man to come up with the first authentic, exciting piece of film to get inside the skin of ski racing, a film that shows us, in a way that only a good film can, what the human dangers and human grace of the World Cup circuit--and by extension, the whole sport--really are. Believe it or not, Redford did his own skiing in the film, as well. I am a businessman." Astonishing Alpine location photography and a young Robert Redford in one of his earliest starring roles are just two of the visual splendors of Downhill Racer, the visceral debut feature of Michael Ritchie. The movie is about an American skier who joins the U.S team to compete in tournaments in Europe. He said he had just had enough of acting for a while. "They told me the ski project would cost $3 million. However, on the course, an unheralded German skier in a later seed is turning in very fast split times. ABOUT A MONTH AGO, for the first time since I saw it (twice) when it came out in 1970, I watched Michael Ritchie’s skiing movie “Downhill Racer,” starring Robert Redford. As producer as well as star, he was attracted to "the combination of poetry and danger" in the sport. Natalie Wood, in Wenggen to watch the filming, fell while skiing and broke her leg. Where other skier-extras froze and got wooden-faced in front of the cameras, these two Canadians were more American than Americans. ... That insistence on the heart of the matter, winning or losing, is not the least of Downhill's virtues, but there are others. His stand-ins did nobly, however, especially during the mano-a-mano sequences in which one American teammate challenges Redford to a downhill duel on the Lauberhorn. The pastry bill came to just under $500 a week. The racers, traveling shoulder-to-shoulder at 60 miles an hour, achieved some remarkable effects. 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