Car chases in movies, what a thrill

Car chases in movies, what a thrill May 6, 2017 18:06:45 GMT Salzmank, spiderwort, and 1 more like this

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Post by Doghouse6 on May 6, 2017 18:06:45 GMT

May 6, 2017 14:58:27 GMT teleadm said:

Mention any movie that has a car chase, from comedy to serious dramas.
Growing up in the 1970s seeing car chases was always a thrill at the movies, especially if they jumped.
This is also a salute to all stuntmen, that gave us those thrills

Don't worry about any damages, the insurance company will cover it all (they say, untill it really happens

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Wisdom says I have to have some rules here, the vehicles must at least have 3 wheels up to 24 wheeler trucks/lorrys, and the movies should have been made between the dawn of movies up to the year 2002, movies made after 2002 is OK if they takes place before 2002. They don't have to be features, they can be shorts, travelogues, cartoons, dolls, mutoscopes, well any thing that is not home movies.

You can nearly mention any Burt Reynolds, Keystone Cops or James Bond movie.

Just to kick off:

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World 1963

The Love Bug 1969

and Fritz Lang's Dr Mabuse, der Spieler 1922

Against All Odds 1984, where a car chase nearly had nothing to do with the rest of the movie

Long before Peter Yates and Steve McQueen made vehicular pursuit almost a requirement of contemporary action films, it had served as a mechanized extension of slapstick from the Keystone Cops era; the addition of sound brought a whole new comedic dimension to the device, finding latter-day fruition in Ethel Merman's harangues against Milton Berle, Jonathan Winters or whoever was at the wheel in the above-mentioned It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ("We're the ones with the Imperial and we're running last?").

One especially sublime example is provided by The Bank Dick, in which the unflappable W.C. Fields, forced at gunpoint to drive a getaway car, casually notes points of interest on the way - "These are catalpa trees all along here...Lake Shoshobogomo is right over the top of this mountain" - or offers acerbic asides to his captor: "The resale value of this car is gonna be nil after this trip."