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The World's Fastest Indian

Anthony Hopkins (Actor), Diane Ladd (Actor), Roger Donaldson (Director, Writer) Rated:

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Genre	Drama, Documentary/Biography
Format	Color, NTSC, Widescreen, Dolby
Contributor	Jim Bowman, Anthony Hopkins, Diane Ladd, Aaron Murphy, Kate Sullivan, Craig Hall, Iain Rea, Tessa Mitchell, Annie Whittle, Roger Donaldson, Antony Starr, Tim Shadbolt, Greg Johnson See more
Language	English
Runtime	2 hours and 7 minutes

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Based On One Hell Of A True Story

It's Never Too Late For The Ride Of Your Life

Academy Award Winner, Anthony Hopkins stars as Burt Munro, a man who never let the dreams of youth fade. In the late 1960’s, after a lifetime of perfecting his classic INDIAN MOTORCYCLE, Burt sets off from the bottom of the world, Invercargill, New Zealand, to clock his bike at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. With all odds against him, Burt puts his irrepressible 'kiwi' spirit to the test, braving the New World on a shoestring budget. Burt’s quest culminates in an unlikely conclusion and remains legendary within the motorcycle community to this day.

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In '60s New Zealand, at the bottom of the world, Burt Munro takes a 1920 Indian motorcycle and, delightfully without resources other than his own obsession and a Kiwi #8 wire mentality, spends his retirement rebuilding the bike and following his dream to go to Speed Week at Salt Lake in Utah. Under funded, without the support of a team and against all the odds he not only makes it to Bonneville, he sets a national land speed record, not once, but again and again.

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A movie that exudes affection and goodwill, The World's Fastest Indian is an unabashed mash note to a lovely character from New Zealand's recent past. Burt Munro, played by Anthony Hopkins, is a cantankerous Kiwi with an obsession: he's been tinkering with his 1920s-era Indian brand motorcycle for years, pushing it to ever-faster speeds. It's the 1960s, and Burt has the utterly mad idea of taking the bike to the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, site of world records for speed racing. The movie takes a while to get to the journey--and then the journey takes a while--but the genial atmosphere prevails. (People of a certain age, for whom the word "Bonneville" evokes pleasant associations with hotrods and world-speed records, will not be disappointed in the film's location shooting, or its sense of awe.) Hopkins is not quite on-the-money casting for the jovial, happy-go-lucky Munro, and his accent wavers, but he nails the emotional scenes and the fascination with speed. Smaller bits are well-filled by Diane Ladd and Christopher Lawford (son of Peter), who looks uncannily of the era. New Zealand director Roger Donaldson doesn't take any chances here, but the story clearly means something to him, and that sense of commitment carries the film through its sleepier moments. --Robert Horton

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.78:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 0.01 Ounces
Item model number ‏ : ‎ Relay Time: 127 min
Director ‏ : ‎ Roger Donaldson
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Color, NTSC, Widescreen, Dolby
Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 7 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ June 13, 2006
Actors ‏ : ‎ Anthony Hopkins, Diane Ladd, Iain Rea, Tessa Mitchell, Aaron Murphy
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ Spanish
Language ‏ : ‎ Unqualified, English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Studio ‏ : ‎ Magnolia Home Ent
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000F8DBDK
Writers ‏ : ‎ Roger Donaldson
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Constance Y

Received a bit of history , before all account is wiped out .

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 7, 2022

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Great movie ; saw it many years ago and was impressed with the true story ; but I forgot to get the title , so I could not buy it online . It was on cable tv, once again and was determined to get the movie title and ordered after the show was over ; directly went to Amazon and ordered it . Happy to own it now after sooo many years .

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 21, 2007

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In this independently released sleeper, consummate actor's actor Anthony Hopkins brings a deceptively diminutive, real-life hero--legendary motorcyclist Burt Munro--to the big screen in a larger-than-life biopic. Directed with heartfelt passion by Australian Roger Donaldson, The World's Fastest Indian tells the improbable story of one man's all-consuming mission to become the fastest man on two wheels.

For twenty-five years, New Zealander Burt Munro has dreamed of trekking far from the shores of his town of Invercargill to take a shot at breaking the motorcycle land speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. But as the movie opens, we find not some youth with the latest tricked-out bike, but a pensioner pushing seventy and nursing hardened arteries, for which he must take nitroglycerin pills to prevent his heart from giving out. Pushing his dream even farther from the reaches of reality, he plans to ride to glory on a mechanical antique--his beloved 1920 Indian Scout. The bike originally left the factory able to reach a top speed of fifty-four miles per hour; but Burt intends to reach 200.

Hopkins is brilliant in capturing the unassuming outer persona of Munro. His portrayal gives us the sense not that we are in the presence of greatness so much as resolute persistence. Burt Munro is a self-effacing charmer and tinkerer whose eccentric personality is out of phase with his stolid, suburbanite neighbors. They, understandably, are more than mildly annoyed by his loudly revving bike engine before the break of dawn, and by his absent-mindedness about getting around to mowing his lawn.

One neighbor, though, twelve-year-old Tom, sees in Burt not some tottering old crank, but a hero and mentor. The scenes in Burt's tool shed as Tom listens to the old man's reminisces and aspirations are among the movie's most sincere and enchanting. Even as we are subtly prodded not to take Burt completely seriously, Tom's uncorrupted awe and youthful idolization help stoke the man's quiet inner passion to see his plan to fruition.

"If you don't follow through on your dreams, you might as well be a vegetable," he counsels the boy.

"What kind of vegetable?" Tom inquires.

With biting succinctness, Hopkins replies, "A cabbage."

One thing that separates Burt from a legion of dreamers who abandon their ambitions is his resourcefulness. On a shoestring budget, he constantly employs his mechanical ingenuity to modify the Indian, with which he is more intimate than he is with any living person. Never taking a day off, not even for Christmas, he spends untold hours and days forging new pistons and souping up his "motorsicle," readying it for the big trip.

Much of the movie concerns itself with Burt's personal odyssey to Bonneville for "Speed Week." He finances part of the journey by working as a cook and dishwasher on a freighter bound for America. Upon arrival, he works late into the night repairing a cheap old clunker to tow the Indian across the desert to Utah. Along the way we meet a benevolent, motley crew who happen into and out of Burt's life, including a fast-talking used car salesman (comedian Paul Rodriguez) whom Burt nearly kills while test driving on the left side of the road; a hotel desk clerk in drag (Chris Williams); an aging American Indian (Saginaw Grant) who helps Burt out of a tight spot; a widow, Ada (Diane Ladd), who takes a respite from loneliness during a brief encounter with Burt; and an Airman on furlough from Vietnam (Patrick Flueger).

In a quietly reflective scene, Burt relates to Ada what motivates him to push himself further:

A man is like a blade of grass. He grows up in the spring, strong and healthy and green. And, then he reaches middle age and he ripens, as it were. And, in the autumn, he finishes, he fades away and never comes back...I think that when you're dead, you're dead.

In this soliloquy Hopkins summarizes the film's philosophy--that there's no room for soothing stagnation on Earth by nurturing dreams to be fulfilled only in the hereafter. Life must be lived now, because tomorrow may never come.

Arriving in Bonneville, Burt must overcome new challenges strewn in his path: Speed Week organizers inform him that he forgot to pre-register; his ancient motorcycle has no safety equipment; he's simply too old to be allowed to race in the time trials. But because of his dogged refusal to back down after traveling around the world, the race organizers humor Burt and allow him to enter the time trials.

The World's Fastest Indian is superb in every respect. For director Donaldson, it represents the fulfillment of a double obsession: dramatizing Burt Munro's breathtaking pursuit of his lifelong goal, and realizing Donaldson's own quarter-century quest to bring his hero-friend's incredible story to the screen. David Gribble's lush cinematography is full of vibrant hues and astounding moving camerawork, expertly capturing racing vehicles traveling at speeds topping 200 miles per hour.

But it's Hopkins who ultimately makes this picture work so well, in his most heroic role since playing efficacious industrialist Charles Morse in 1997's The Edge. Though not given to hyperbole, Hopkins proclaimed The World's Fastest Indian "the best film I've been in." I agree, absolutely. His natural, evocative portrayal of a man who refuses to resign himself to the tedium expected of one in old age will inspire viewers of all ages. His Burt Munro is not content merely to dream, but is that rare individual who makes his dreams reality. "For me, it's a big change," Hopkins commented about Munro, "because it's a real winner of a guy. I've had a good career playing psychopaths or uptight people, and I'm fed up with those."

Ironically, his rousing performance of this aging hero is the best depiction of the spirit of youth I've seen in a decade. Spend a couple hours with Burt Munro, and you'll find in his quiet resolve the idealism you may have mislaid somewhere along the way.

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Quin Paul

Persistance

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 6, 2022

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Great movie. Anthony Hopkins is at his best. If you like speed this is a fun movie to see.

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Tone

Very entertaining Dvd.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 30, 2022

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Wonderful performance by the leading actor.

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Anthony Hopkins is an eccentric old man who wants to go fast

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 30, 2022

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Anthony Hopkins is an old man with a dream. He wants to break the motorcycle speed record. I like the start because Hopkins plays his part as a total eccentric. He makes all his neighbors mad with his work on his bike and next thing you know he challenges a biker gang to a race. Things keep on that path when Hopkins goes to America for more fun. The supporting characters stand out as well from a transvestite played by Chris Williams he runs into in Los Angeles to Paul Rodriguez who plays a used car salesman. It’s like one big adventure story. It makes you want to see who Hopkins will run into next and what will happen to him. Most importantly when he goes for the speed trial it will put you on the edge of your seat.

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Robert L

Fun historical record of a speed buff.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 31, 2022

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A delightful (his)story for a land-speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats. Uplifting story of perseverance in the face of many everyday obstacles. Great motivational movie and VERY entertaining! Definitely worth the purchase price.

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Brand new

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 10, 2022

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Brand New item at a great price.

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A1cPeanut

Enjoyable, but a bit too long with a few too many "bits"

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 30, 2022

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It's a great story for sure and the movie is excellent in many ways, but it seems a little long, even for its day. There are too many short gag scenes containing standard issue Hollywood social statements. If they were thought to be frosting on a tasty cake, those scenes are more sugary than the palette requires and are thusly out of place for such an inspiring true story. The 2nd quarter of the film drags a bit as it tries a bit too hard to be cute and relevant- causing me to fast forward until the action picked up.

The scenes at the flats are well done and capture the camaraderie of the participants during Speed Week. The movie really comes alive as the lead fights to realize his dream and sidestep some of the track rules. The final setup is nicely done, leaving the viewer with warm, nostalgic feelings.

Sadly, the days of racing on the flats are about over. Doing so has become a bureaucratic nightmare and the bed itself is a fraction of the thickness it used to be with so much material having been mined for sale. Perhaps there is enough for a few electric vehicles to battle it out, but the sounds, smells, and culture may be fading faster than the great stories born of the event can be told.

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Mr. R. Jennings

Biographical film

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 14, 2022

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This is a biographical film, about the New Zealand's speed bike racer Burt Munro.
Burt Munro the main character is played by Anthony Hopkins, an old man wo spends his retirement tinkering with old motorbikes with the aim to have the fastest Old Indian motorbike in the world, and gaining Guinness Book of Records entry.
The film goes from the early days though his plight to travel from New Zealand to the USA Bonneville Salt Flats to race his bike and prove himself. The problems and disasters to himself and his bike during the trip, ad-hoc repairs he makes to finally arrive, to discover that because he hadn't pre-registered he might to get to race.
How the bike community wrote him off before he started, through to his triumph in the end.
A beautiful, but slow film, that has Munro's love of motorbikes show clearly. A gentle film with some twists and turns along the way.
Brilliant shot film.

Mr. P. Smith

A motorcycle legend - Portrayed by an acting legend.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 19, 2021

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This is a really good watch covering the story of a New Zealand motor cycle legend who triumphed over adversity with the help of some like minded motor enthuisiasts. Remarkable portrayel by Anthony Hopkins who you could easily believe was telling his own story. A great film for all the family with some heart warming moments and many thrills with enthusiasm, laughter, history and honesty.

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THE WORLD’S FASTEST INDIAN [2005] [Blu-ray]

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 18, 2015

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THE WORLD’S FASTEST INDIAN [2005] [Blu-ray] [US Release] A Story of Speed, Daring and Tenacity! It’s Never Too Late For The Ride of Your Life!

Academy Award® winner, Anthony Hopkins stars as Burt Munro, a man who never let the dreams of youth fade.

In the late 1960's, after a lifetime of perfecting his classic INDIAN MOTORCYCLE, Burt Munro sets off from the bottom of the world, Invercargill, New Zealand, to clock his bike at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. With all odds against him, Burt puts his irrepressible kiwi spirit to the test, braving the new world on a shoestring budget. Burt's quest culminates in an unlikely conclusion and remains legendary within the motorcycle community to this day.

Cast: Sir Anthony Hopkins, Antony Starr, Craig Hall, Jim Bowman, Alison Bruce, Phoebe Falconer, Charles Pierard, Barry Ryan, Bill Richardson, Mick Rose, Tony Wilson, Todd Emerson, Mark Ruka, Campbell Cooley, James Gaylyn, Latham Gaines, Steve O'Neill, Dan Moody, Carlos Lacamara, Noelle Lee Kaine, Chris Williams (Tina), Kristen Marie Jensen, Paul Rodriguez, Charles Halford, Mark Kolodziej Jr., Morgan Lund, Bill Osborne, Patrick John Flueger, Christopher Lawford, Brian Neal Clark, Kyle Shearing, Alex Cunningham, Aaron Geange, Dallas Ryan, Andrew Tree, Jarn Hayes, Glen Ridd, Jeremy Holmes, Jeff Manson, Tony Morris, John Sievwright, Craig Hubber, Peter Skerrett, Morgan Bickley, Roger Chilton, David Goodall, Alex Gonzales (uncredited), Joseph Daniel Hamilton (uncredited), Jim Jepson (uncredited), Aaron Justesen (uncredited), Thomas McMinn (uncredited), Grant Lee Peterson (uncredited), Aaron Radl (uncredited), Joe Ries (uncredited), J. Owen Rogers (uncredited), Tim Sabuco (uncredited) and Jimmy Stevens (uncredited)

Director: Roger Donaldson

Producers: Barrie M. Osborne, Charles Hannah, Don Schain, Gary Hannam, John J. Kelly, Masaharu Inaba, Megumi Fukasawa, Murray Francis, Roger Donaldson and Satoru Iseki

Screenplay: Roger Donaldson

Composer: J. Peter Robinson

Cinematography: David Gribble

Video Resolution: 1080p

Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1

Audio: English: 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio and English: 5.1 Dolby Digital

Subtitles: English SDH and Spanish

Running Time: 127 minutes

Region: All Regions

Number of discs: 1

Studio: Magnolia Home Entertainment

Andrew’s Blu-ray Review: A highly-personal film for writer/director Roger Donaldson, the unpromisingly-entitled ‘The World's Fastest Indian’ tells the story of Burt Munro [1899 – 1978], a New Zealander who in the 1960s after his retirement, takes to rebuilding an old motorcycle and ends up setting all sorts of land speed records. It seems a very unlikely project for Roger Donaldson and indeed Sir Anthony Hopkins, who plays the lead, given his mostly action-based past, but has got simply incredibly reviews and ranks as one of the best-reviewed films in several years.

Burt Munro [Sir Anthony Hopkins] attempts to break the world land speed record for bikes with engines less than 1000 cc on his 1920 Indian Scout. Determined old Kiwi coot, Burt Munro decides that the 1920 Indian Scout motorcycle he's been tinkering with for the last 20 years is about ready for the big leagues. With the help of his neighbours, most of whom think he's insane, but he scrapes together enough money to sail to the USA. Once there, he goes about making his way to Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats to compete for the world land speed record.

‘The World's Fastest Indian’ is a very engaging film, if occasionally very sentimental, which is nothing wrong in that, but this film is very character driven in the study of one man's will to succeed. If Sir Anthony Hopkins's portrayal of Burt Munro is as accurate as some have claimed, especially according to the IMDb web site in telling us that his performance was so on-the-nail and it reduced Burt Munro's surviving relatives to tears when they visited the film set and then the land speed record breaker was arguably one of the most determined individuals to ever walk the face of the earth.

The film was something of a labour of love for its director and writer Roger Donaldson who apparently took 20 years to bring Burt Munro's story to the screen. While the film is set in 1967, in historical terms it plays more like an amalgamation of the many trips Burt Munro made out to Utah's Bonneville Flats and the first of these was in 1957. While many of the events which take place in the film actually happened, including his terrible crash. But his appearance in the publication “Popular Mechanics” and they even had a whip round with “Speed Week” to help him out of his financial. Purists are also urged to overlook the rather liberal attitude the film has towards portraying historical facts and chief among the inaccuracies is that while it's true that Burt Munro set numerous world records, he never set one of 201 mph as he does in the film.

The film makes much of Burt Munro's cavalier attitude toward his infirmities: an enlarged prostate that forces him to urinate frequently in unlikely places; partial deafness; and angina attacks, for which he stuffs fistfuls of pills down his throat when pain strikes. Yet in his late 60's, which he looks older, Burt Munro is still an enthusiastic lover who beds two mature women and leaves satisfied glows on their faces. One of them, when observed leaving his house in the morning, cracks: "What are you staring at? Dirty old men need love, too." Little boys look up to Burt. So do auto mechanics. Even his New Zealand neighbours, whom he annoys by revving up his engine in the early morning and by refusing to mow his lawn when pressed, he pours gasoline on it and sets it on fire, forgive his eccentricities. Burt Munro has his own extreme response to the adage that old age is not for sissies. "Danger is the spice of life," he declares. Of racing his bike, he says, "You live more in five minutes than most people live in a lifetime."

The 1920 Indian Twin Scout motorcycle that Burt Munro rides to glory is really his sidekick in a man-machine buddy film. Burt Munro frequently talks to the vehicle, a red, rocket-shaped automotive relic that has no brakes, has to be pushed to get moving and overheats and wobbles dangerously at peak speeds.

Sir Anthony Hopkins plays New Zealand folk hero and land speed record breaker Burt Munroe, Aaron Murphy plays his pre-adolescent sidekick Tom and Annie Whittle plays Burt Munro's love-interest, Fran. To test his limits at the Bonneville Salt Flats is Burt's lifelong dream. He scrapes up the money to sail from New Zealand to California, where he has upbeat encounters with everyone he meets. Tina [Chris Williams], a warm-hearted transvestite motel clerk who works the night shift at the seedy motel on the Sunset Strip where he stays, oozes sweetness. Fernando [Paul Rodriguez], a slick used-car salesman from whom he buys a beat-up old car to drive to Utah, offers him a job. A fresh-faced soldier [Patrick Flueger] on leave from Vietnam rhapsodises over Agent Orange. A wise old American Indian gives him shelter for the night. Together these good-hearted people make up one of the rosiest cross-sections of American types ever put on the screen. But as anyone who lived through the Vietnam era can attest, America was not Happyland, and there's not a hippie in sight.

Upon reaching the Utah racing ground, Burt encounters seemingly insurmountable obstacles. The official registration date was months earlier, and his motorcycle has none of the required safety features. But with the help of Jim Moffet [Chris Lawford], a friendly biker with a chipmunk grin who's on good terms with the officials, the rules are bent, and Burt Munro is allowed to race.

The climactic scene, in which he guns his vehicle to the astounding speed of 201 miles an hour while his fellow racers watch with scepticism that turns to awe and then to euphoria, is the same winner's sequence we've seen a hundred times before. If the film's pushing of the usual feel-good buttons is shameless, it doesn't go as wildly overboard as it might have. But in the end when the final credits roll up the screen, you get a warm glow of satisfaction that you have seen a film that gives you a warm glow of satisfaction.

Blu-ray Video Quality – The presentation is decent for the most part although some of the scenes set in the dark of Burt Munro's shed are thick with grain. It didn't stop me enjoying this unusual story. Although the MPEG-2 Blu-ray was an early release for the format, it's actually pretty good. The decision to change from the film's original aspect ratio was the choice of director Roger Donaldson.

Blu-ray Audio Quality – The 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio mix is up to the task. It is particularly effective once the story reaches Bonneville Flats and we hear Burt Munro revving the engine to see what the Indian can achieve. The film is shot in such a way that you feel as if you're riding the bike, and the sound completes the effect.

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Audio Commentary: Commentary with Writer/Director Roger Donaldson: The commentary by Richard Donaldson is also enjoyable. He's got a pleasant voice, a charming demeanour, and he's got wall to wall stories including lots of little titbits about the real Burt Munro as well as his own experiences in America and how they found their way into the film. One neat fact was that they actually opened the film in Invercargill and he talks about the reaction of the people in the town. Richard Donaldson talks about how difficult it was to make things look fast in the sand flats where there was nothing to use around them as a speed reference. He also touches on making replica bikes, perfecting the script and some history that they were able to implement into the making of the film.

Special Feature Documentary: The Making of ‘The World's Fastest Indian’ [2005] [480i] [4:3] [45:25] Next special feature is "The Making of The World's Fastest Indian" where a second camera follows the cast and crew as they prepare and work on the film. There are sporadic bits of comments here as well but more or less this is a standard feature which isn't as enticing as Roger Donaldson's documentary.

Deleted Scenes [2005] [480i] [4:3] [4:06] Here you have 4 deleted scenes and they include Grantsville County Clinic; You Crazy or Something, Filler-Up and Be Happy The Way You Are.

Special Feature: The original Documentary: Burt Munro: Offerings to the God of Speed [1971] [480i] [4:3] [27:30] Featuring historical footage of the real Burt Munro and directed by Roger Donaldson. This documentary was made in 1971 and was, as I said earlier, created by Roger Donaldson. Thought made years and years ago, the documentary was very well shot, and it still hits right at home. There are so many great quotes that Burt Munro said in the documentary that carried into "The World’s Fastest Indian." This in itself was absolutely fun and entertaining to see how closely Anthony Hopkins pulled off the accent and the life of Burt Munro. Probably my favourite quote that Burt Munro informs us is, "You can live more in 5 minutes in some of these events, then some people do in a lifetime." You can really get to know Burt Munro, and his passion for racing and speed. This was his life...his main reason to live. Directed by Roger Donaldson. Produced by Michael Scott-Smith and Roger Donaldson. Music by John Donaghue and Martin Hope. Cinematography by Geoff Steven, Mike Smith and Roger Donaldson.

Special Feature: Promotional Video: Southland: Burt's Hometown of Invercargill [1971] [480i] [16:9] [2:55] This feature video was an interesting promo for Southland, Burt Munro’s Hometown of Invercargill. It is just a quiet soundtrack that follows some highlights of Southland. Lots of fun excursions like horseback riding, kayaking, and waterfalls. It makes you want to go and visit Burt Munro’s home town of Southland!

Soundtrack Promo: “The World’s Fastest Indian” CD Album Soundtrack, featuring the Original Score by Conductor J. Peter Robinson and Performed by The Hollywood Studio Symphony [Milan Records]

Blu-ray Trailers: ‘The Lost City’ [1080p] [16:9] [2:15]. ‘District B13’ [1080p] [16:9] [1:45]

Finally, a beautiful and spirited film about a simple man's desire to live his dream and ‘The World's Fastest Indian’ is without a doubt Dir Anthony Hopkins' strongest contribution to cinema in well over a decade. His impersonation of Burt Monroe is flawless. The Blu-ray package by Magnolia Pictures is of very high-quality presenting the film without any technical sacrifices or omissions. The supplemental materials on the other hand are just as impressive adding additional flavour to an already spectacular presentation. Highly Recommended!

Andrew C. Miller – Your Ultimate No.1 Film Aficionado
Le Cinema Paradiso
United Kingdom

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Jay

Well worth watching!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 5, 2017

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Top actor, top film and in the guise of Burt Munro! For those who are not aware of who Burt is, he was the first person to set a land speed record on an Indian motorcycle and, this was in the days before the health and safety brigade became too involved!

This is the tale of Burt Munro who is on a mission to head to the salt lakes in America from his home in New Zealand. He endures a lot of problems and issues on the way andis on a shoestring budget. But in typical Munro fashion, he manages to make his way to the salt lakes and and also proceeds to attempt a new world record. I will not give too much of the plot away, but suffice to say that this is an absolutely brilliant film that would not be out of place on a Sunday afternoon at home, with the family!

Anthony Hopkins plays the role of Munro really well and the film is, in places quite comical. I would recommend this film to anyone who has even a remote interest in motorcycle or who is just an Anthony Hopkins fan. This is one of his finer, but lesser known roles in the movie world.

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Mr. Shane Ross

FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 2, 2016

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This movie is just 'Fantastic! For those people who see it, it becomes one of their favourites.
Based on the true story of Burt Munro, where the pursuit of dreams is everything! - in his case, 'Speed'. There are some real 'Life pearls of 'wisdom' thrown in along the way, but this man was determined to the point of 'single mindedness', focused, persistent and never ...ever, gave up on his dreams, despite the challenges along the way ... and there are plenty of those! His 'example' is inspirational! and for those of us 'Kiwi's' who see this film, makes us feel proud in our own kind of way! At the time this movie is set, Burt was in his 60's and where a return journey with 'his bike' from New Zealand to America was probably around 12 weeks in duration. The movie is full of real characters we meet along the way ... the music, spine tingling in places! Watch this movie!...and see, experience 'why' so many other reviewers give this 5 stars! You will not be disappointed...Enjoy!

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