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Posted By: HitnRun Greatest Chase Scene In Movies - 02/04/17
Of course it was the chase scene in "Bullit". I just tuned in to the movie in time to catch it. How many mistakes were there in filming it?
Originally Posted by HitnRun
Of course it was the chase scene in "Bullit". I just tuned in to the movie in time to catch it. How many mistakes were there in filming it?


Are you kidding?



Dave
McClintock.
The one in "Ronin" with Robert De Niro was pretty good.
Just watched it. It was made in 1968. I'd love to own some of those classic cars.
Vanishing Point.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Chased them all the way to Bolivia.
Or Smokey and the Bandit. Chased them from Texas to Ga. The whole show was a chase. miles
Mad Max

The Death of the Nightrider

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TMYLjlpP0NY

The chase scene in "To Live and Die in LA" was pretty intense for it's day. Actually, it was a downright decent movie.
Posted By: byc Re: Greatest Chase Scene In Movies - 02/05/17
Great Escape!!

The French Connection.

Greatest Ongoing Chase..............

Isle of Mann
Gone in 60 Seconds, the original!
I suppose you would have to consider "Blues Brothers". I doubt there were more cars wrecked than they did in that movie.
The Raisuli chasing down the bandits on the beach in "The Wind and the Lion". Heads were a flyin' off!
Ronin. DeNiro's politics suck but he plays a badass part in that movie.
Originally Posted by GunGeek
The chase scene in "To Live and Die in LA" was pretty intense for it's day. Actually, it was a downright decent movie.




The soundtrack by Wang Chung was dam good too.
The Naked Prey


Running days and nights, naked, through Africa with a tribe of spear throwers on your ass.
Bullit
Originally Posted by Steelhead
The Naked Prey


Running days and nights, naked, through Africa with a tribe of spear throwers on your ass.


Cornel Wilde at his best! I remember seein' that movie at the drive in!!
Originally Posted by kaywoodie
Originally Posted by Steelhead
The Naked Prey


Running days and nights, naked, through Africa with a tribe of spear throwers on your ass.


Cornel Wilde at his best! I remember seein' that movie at the drive in!!
On top of your horse. grin
Hell Ken. We had a buckboard Studebaker!
Plenty of room for the..... wink
If memory serves me, Steve Mqueen passed the same green Volkswagen bug 3 times in bullit.
Originally Posted by Steelhead
The Naked Prey


Running days and nights, naked, through Africa with a tribe of spear throwers on your ass.

^ ^ ^ this^ ^ ^ is a great movie
Naked Prey chase was good.

Ha! BEat me to it, Hadn't scrolled down that far.
Cannot remember which "Dirty Harry" movie it was,but the chase scene involved a toy car chasing the cop car.
if the op was referring to car chases,
i'd go with roy scheider's chase in
the seven up's or the part in the real
mad max where he scatters the bikes and
one of the bad guys is skidding across
the pavement and takes a bike to the head.
i've never figured out how anyone survived
those scenes in real life.
Originally Posted by elkhunternm
Cannot remember which "Dirty Harry" movie it was,but the chase scene involved a toy car chasing the cop car.


that'd be the dead pool
That's it! Thank you Ranger99. smile
forgot about duel with dennis weaver trying
to get away from the truck with the
railroad iron front bumper
Death Hunt with Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin.

No cars, lots of guns!
Originally Posted by Toddly
If memory serves me, Steve Mqueen passed the same green Volkswagen bug 3 times in bullit.


One of the mistakes I saw. I think I counted 4 times. Also a cream colored Pontiac showed up a couple times. His Mustang had dirt on it when he started, but was clean by the time the chase got underway.

Bill Hickman was the Charger driver, you gotta' love his expression. He was a real stunt driver and drove in "The French Connection" as well.
Any 007 movie. Pick one.
The Bourne movies each have a good chase scene,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vACWV5sRcY

when's the last time you saw one of those old
venturas, or seen one made into a convertible
that fast ?


Watching it right now......... "The Sandlot" , Hercules chasing Benny the Jet Rodriguez thru town.
"Drums Along the Mohawk" with the warriors chasing Henry Fonda across country.
Great car chase in the Seven Ups.
Good chase on foot in Appocalipto.
French connection was great. Can't imagine what it took to get every body outa da way to film those scenes.
I like Bullet but seems like the attraction of the throaty sounding Mustang may be why it's liked so well. I think some of the chase scenes in the Jason Bourne movies are just as exciting.
Originally Posted by Steelhead
The Naked Prey


Running days and nights, naked, through Africa with a tribe of spear throwers on your ass.


Sounds like a buddy of mine after he had way too much to drink on Beale St. in Memphis
Bullitt and loved the Mustang sound!
Bullitt, Seven Ups, French Connection, All of those movies done with stunt drivers and not Computers. Hell even the scenes from street racing in American Graffiti and The Hollywood Knights are vastly superior than the video game crap we get these days.

That 68 Charger RT (440 not 426) kept running down the 390 Mustang GT so easy in that chase you can see it after you have watched it a few dozen times like I have!
should have also mentioned ryan oneal
in the driver where he runs that mercedes
through the parking garage. the whole
movie isn't too bad
gumball rally.
always wanted a real cobra.
Originally Posted by Son_of_the_Gael
Vanishing Point.


^^^Indeed!^^^ I'll bet that movie sold more Challenger's than any Dodge commercial. Interesting movie with all the sub plots.
Not sure if it's the greatest, but it was good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duel_(1971_film)
Gumball Rally indeed. Own that one...the sound of the Cobra and the Ferrari echoing off of the buildings in New York are pretty freaking awesome.

Cannonball Runs were both silly but have some good car stuff in them and are still entertaining. Farrah Faucett dodging the proctologist exam from Jack Elam ect. Have to smile at that good Dr.
Originally Posted by Ranger99
if the op was referring to car chases,
i'd go with roy scheider's chase in
the seven up's or the part in the real
mad max where he scatters the bikes and
one of the bad guys is skidding across
the pavement and takes a bike to the head.
i've never figured out how anyone survived
those scenes in real life.


If the op was referring to car chases, I'd go with Roy Scheider's chase in the Seven Up's or the part in the real Mad Max where he scatters the bikes and one of the bad guys is skidding across the pavement and takes a bike to the head. I've never figured out how anyone survived
those scenes in real life.
Posted By: KMS Re: Greatest Chase Scene In Movies - 02/05/17
I love Marie's action at the end.

Originally Posted by 007FJ
Bullitt, Seven Ups, French Connection, All of those movies done with stunt drivers and not Computers. Hell even the scenes from street racing in American Graffiti and The Hollywood Knights are vastly superior than the video game crap we get these days.

That 68 Charger RT (440 not 426) kept running down the 390 Mustang GT so easy in that chase you can see it after you have watched it a few dozen times like I have!


All three of those movies had Bill Hickman at the wheel of one of those cars.
Just something about Bullitt that speaks to me.
Bullitt, the reason i bought a 68 charger RT
Bill Hickman was truly the best. That smirk when he drops the hammer on the RT Blackie is just right.
Great Escape
Originally Posted by Steelhead


Running days and nights, naked, through Africa with a tribe of spear throwers on your ass.


pffftttttt.....

Average weekend in Milwaukee,

for actual excitement we head to Chicago.



Originally Posted by Steelhead
The Naked Prey


Running days and nights, naked, through Africa with a tribe of spear throwers on your ass.


Chuckers... Everyone should watch this movie. Explains a lot about current affairs.... whistle
The Daniel Craig James Bond Movies
HitnRun: Having survived (thank you GOD!) about 100 high speed chases in my 29 year police career I still prefer the hub-cap flyin off chase scene in "Bullit"!
Gives me goose-bumps every time I see it.
But for funsies I just love laughing at the chase sequence in "Blues Brothers"!
Lots of folks don't get the cops all showing no regard for the property damage done to innocents along the way but several of them acclaiming "damn my watch is broke" after they crash!
That's an inside police joke where-in the watches we were required to wear were always getting "broken" in the "line of duty" and thus we could put in a claim to the city for a new watch.
I hear on the radio broadcast of Rush Limbaugh virtually every day during commercial breaks that there were over 150 cars destroyed in the filming of "Blues Brothers" - I don't know for sure but I would have loved to have worked on that movie - had to have been a blast.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy
IIRC, McQueen did 90% of his own stunt driving.
Frankenferter chasing Meatloaf
Originally Posted by hanco
Frankenferter chasing Meatloaf

Let's do the time warp again! smile
Blazing Saddles chase scene is "pretty outstanding!!"
Jim Craig running down the Brombies in "Man From Snowy River." Does that even count as a chase?
Just watched Bullit again yesterday. That dark Volkswagen must have gotten passed 6 times in 30 seconds.

Originally Posted by montanabadger
Great car chase in the Seven Ups.


^^^THIS^^^
The jeep chase with James Caan as SSGT Eddie Duhun in "A Bridge Too Far".
Ben Johnson getting chased by Indians in just about every John Ford movie he had a role in.
Originally Posted by Toddly
If memory serves me, Steve Mqueen passed the same green Volkswagen bug 3 times in bullit.


No. Back in those days, every hippie living in San Francisco had a Volkwagon Bug and many of them were green. All over the place, so to speak. Green matched the color of their weed. grin

L.W.
Originally Posted by MtnBoomer
Originally Posted by Steelhead
The Naked Prey


Running days and nights, naked, through Africa with a tribe of spear throwers on your ass.


Chuckers... Everyone should watch this movie. Explains a lot about current affairs.... whistle

Stumbled upon that movie as a kid. The "terracotta man" scene stuck with me for quite a while.
'Bullitt' Mustang has no pony emblem or driving lights on the grill, no GT badges on fenders or fuel cap,
no Mustang lettering on the tail, completely devoid of all markings.
They removed the badges off of the RT also if I remember correctly.
i forgot thunder road. sorry mr. mitchum
"that's right man. we've got mills that'll blow
that heap of your's right off the road. ."

and dirty mary crazy larry. but i've never
been that big of a susan george fan
Either Mad Max Fury Road or Apocalypto... both are pretty much one giant chase scene.
Originally Posted by 007FJ
They removed the badges off of the RT also if I remember correctly.


Nope, Charger-R/T markings were retained.
Originally Posted by bigfish9684
Either Mad Max Fury Road or Apocalypto... both are pretty much one giant chase scene.

Along those same lines, Das Boot. A little different chase scene, but qualifies...
A life dedicated to the chase;

Fast and Furry-ous (1949) and still at it!

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ep2kp_fast-and-furry-ous_fun
Originally Posted by Deerwhacker444
Originally Posted by bigfish9684
Either Mad Max Fury Road or Apocalypto... both are pretty much one giant chase scene.

Along those same lines, Das Boot. A little different chase scene, but qualifies...


+1
Not the greatest but Mr Majestyk deserves an honorable mention.




Mike
If Das Boot made the list then the 1969 Italian Job needs to be on it as well.
You have the admit, the submarine chase in "Hunt For Red October" had you on the edge of your seat.
The newer version of Gone in 60 Seconds is probably my favorite one.

Some of the Borne movies have some dandies as well.
I met Ben Johnson, he was Marshall for a 6K fun run to kick off the Houston Rodeo. He fired a double barrel shotgun to start the race. I was 40 then. I made it in 42 minutes, right behind the fastest 60 old woman.
Posted By: TBS Re: Greatest Chase Scene In Movies - 02/07/17
Transporter movies have real good car chase scenes.
If we're doing submarine chases let's not forget The Enemy Below with Robert Mitchum and Curt Jürgens.
Man on a buffalo has some pretty good chase scenes as well.
Hands down for me is the chase scene in The French Connection.
Lonesome Dove! Or Man From Snowy River! I liked that one too!
Posted By: RLI Re: Greatest Chase Scene In Movies - 04/24/17
mmmm........"Drive" comes to mind with the chase between the Mustang and Chrysler 300C was good though owning a 300C I did not like the ending! also "Taken" another non car one is "Last of the Mohicans" ..
Posted By: RWE Re: Greatest Chase Scene In Movies - 04/24/17
Greatest 21 second chase, evah.


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