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Post by teleadm on May 6, 2017 14:58:27 GMT
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  ) 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 |
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Post by wanton87 on May 6, 2017 15:06:27 GMT
I thought of a few that are decent.
Vanishing Point with Barry Newman, The Driver with Ryan O'neil, and Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry.
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Post by Times Up on May 6, 2017 15:24:57 GMT
Bullit
The Terminator
First Blood
Smokey and the Bandit
Mad Max
The Spy Who Loved Me
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Post by petrolino on May 6, 2017 15:38:25 GMT
There's a spectacular cop car pile-up in 'The Blues Brothers'.
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Post by Doghouse6 on May 6, 2017 18:06:45 GMT
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 ) 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."
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Post by mattgarth on May 6, 2017 18:28:44 GMT
Bogie gets chased up the mountain in HIGH SIERRA
from TV -- Dennis Weaver in his 'Valiant' gets pursued by a murderous truck driver in Spielberg's 'Duel'
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Post by gadolinium on May 6, 2017 20:36:49 GMT
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."
And the car chase in One, Two, Three. It's similar to the one in The Bank Dick and was probably inspired by it. teleadmI know it's not a car chase but you wrote "must at least have 3 wheels" so I feel The General needs to be mentioned as well. It inspired many movie car chases. |
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Post by teleadm on May 6, 2017 20:47:26 GMT
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."
And the car chase in One, Two, Three. It's similar to the one in The Bank Dick and was probably inspired by it. teleadm I know it's not a car chase but you wrote "must at least have 3 wheels" so I feel The General needs to be mentioned as well. It inspired many movie car chases. As you mentioned The General as an inspiration, I let it slip by, LOL  |
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Post by OldAussie on May 6, 2017 20:55:13 GMT
Ronin
The French Connection
To Live and Die in L.A.
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Post by petrolino on May 6, 2017 21:20:36 GMT
'The Hidden' opens with a spectacular cross-city car chase through parks, roadworks, underground systems and freeway intersections.
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Post by politicidal on May 6, 2017 21:33:19 GMT
Seen it 100x and it still gives me chills.
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Post by manfromplanetx on May 6, 2017 22:06:13 GMT
Drama and comedy combine in a thrilling road pursuit film Jane Greer at the wheel Robert Mitchum passenger William Bendix in pursuit ( his car pictured below) on the winding road, a zigzag of hairpin turns through the Mexican countryside in The Big Steal (1949)  |
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Post by teleadm on May 6, 2017 22:07:36 GMT
Seen it 100x and it still gives me chills. Great clip! |
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Post by teleadm on May 6, 2017 22:09:54 GMT
Drama and comedy combine in a thrilling road pursuit film Jane Greer at the wheel Robert Mitchum passenger William Bendix in pursuit ( his car pictured below) on the winding road, a zigzag of hairpin turns through the Mexican countryside in The Big Steal (1949) That movie is on my wish list! |
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Post by koskiewicz on May 7, 2017 20:16:43 GMT
The French Connection
Bullitt (already mentioned) the Dodge Charger loses 5 hub caps during the chase...:-)
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