Another scene at the legendary AVUS racetrack in Berlin of 1967 from the Anthony Mann movie "A Dandy In Aspic", just before the demolition of the "wall of death", as the huge 43º banked curve was known. Starring Lawrence Harvey and Mia Farrow. It was the last Anthony Mann film, the last major feature for Lawrence Harvey and the last time the banked curve was filmed before destruction. The AVUS (Automobil Verkehrs und Übungs-Strasse) was the world's first autobahn or highway, and doubled as a racetrack. Built in Berlin in the 1920's it consisted of an impossibly long dual carriage straight section joining the localities of Charlottenburg (north) and Nikolassee (south) with loops at each end for a total lenght of more than 19km. In the 1930's during the nazi regime the north curve or "nordkurve" in Charlottenburg was reduced in radius due to urban developments for the olympic games, and given a monumental 43º banking to preserve the track's place as the world's fastest. This is the huge banked curve seen in the film. It was made of bricks so it was bumpy and slippery, and it had no retaining railings at the top so cars could, and did, launch into the air with disastrous consequences. To lower costs, the track was halved in 1951 by upgrading an old motorcycle hairpin at its midpoint (not seen here). The older south loop at Nikolassee was demolished to join the autobahn network and the track now became only 8.3 km long. The banked AVUS north curve was demolished, flattened ...