The world knows Paul Newman as an Academy Award winning actor with a fifty-plus year career as one of the most prolific and revered actors in American Cinema. He was also well known for his philanthropy; Newman's Own has given more than four hundred and thirty million dollars to charities around the world. Yet few know the gasoline-fueled passion that became so important in this complex, multifaceted man's makeup. Newman’s deep-seated passion for racing was so intense it nearly sidelined his acting career. His racing career spanned thirty-five years; Newman won four national championships as a driver and eight championships as an owner. Not bad for a guy who didn't even start racing until he was forty-seven years old.
Direction
Carolla's genuine petrolhead passion keeps it from standard hagiography
Editing
Seamless weaving of 35 years of grainy racing footage with Hollywood archive
Production
Access to Newman's personal racing film vault — never before seen
Director
Adam Carolla
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Newman financed much of this documentary himself through his racing team before his death in 2008, but it sat unfinished for seven years until Carolla rescued it.
This arguably invented the 'celebrity secret passion' documentary format later copied for Bill Murray's golf obsession and others.
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