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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Speed is expensive / Comet Films, Ltd. ; written & directed by David Lancaster ; produced by Gerry Jenkinson, David Lancaster, James Salter.

Publisher, Date:

New York, NY : Virgil Films, [2023]

Description:

1 videodisc (78 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm)

4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

1.77:1

wide screen

video file

DVD video

Summary:

When a Vincent sold at auction for $1.2 million in 2018 it became the most expensive motorcycle in the world. Today, riders such as Jay Leno, Brad Pitt and Ryan Reynolds collect these beautiful machines. Yet its creator, Philip Vincent, died penniless and living in public housing. The Ewan McGregor-narrated Speed is Expensive is the story of how one man's obsession with speed cost him everything.

Subjects:

Vincent, Philip, 1908-1979.

Vincent Engineers (Stevenage) Ltd.

Vincent H.R.D. motorcycle.

Motorcycles -- England.

Inventors -- England -- Biography.

Motorcycles.

Inventors.

Motocyclettes.

Inventeurs.

Motocyclettes -- Angleterre.

Inventeurs -- Angleterre -- Biographies.

motorcycles.

inventors.

Genre:

documentary film.

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Feature films.

Documentaires.

Films autres que de fiction.

Other Author:

Lancaster, David, film director, screenwriter, film producer.

Jenkinson, Gerry, film producer.

Salter, James (Producer), film producer.

McGregor, Ewan, 1971- narrator.

Comet Films, Ltd., production company.

Virgil Films, publisher.

Notes:

Based on an original concept by Gerry Jenkinson & David Lancaster.

Originally released as a documentary film in 2023.

Wide screen (1.77:1).

Special features: John Surtees on the Vincent; Owning a Vincent; Working at the factory; Phil Irving unguarded; Jay Leno on Marty Dickerson; Black Lightning or Grey Flash?; Jay Leno talks to Vincent's grandson; The Montlhéry records; The amazing barn job; Jay Leno: my love of the Vincent.

Director of photography, Steve Read ; editor, Liz Deegan.

Narrated by Ewan McGregor.

DVD; widescreen, stereo.

English dialogue; English subtitles.

Publisher or Distributor Number:

671407

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