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Neil Mylar LakewoodCA 02-07-2017 12:38 AM

What movie has the best car chase? Also......
 

The 1968 movie Bullitt with Paul Newman in the hills of San Francisco may be the best ever car chase. What say you?

Also, what movie has the best Model A car chase?

al's28/33 02-07-2017 01:14 AM

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I would vote on the early Keystone Cops films, they could drive a Model T down the railroad tracks right ahead of a steam locomotive ......

pooch 02-07-2017 01:17 AM

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It wasn't Butch Cassidy it was Hilts.

J Franklin 02-07-2017 01:24 AM

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Smokey and the Bandit

dave in australia 02-07-2017 02:08 AM

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Ronin.

Synchro909 02-07-2017 02:17 AM

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Car chases leave me stone cold.:confused:

DougVieyra 02-07-2017 02:28 AM

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You guys must be young ! :p

Everyone knows the best car scenes (circa 1934) - including chase scenes - is 1967 block-buster Bonnie & Clyde ! ! !:) It beats all others hands-down.

3.6rs 02-07-2017 03:00 AM

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Cars:D

vern hodgson 02-07-2017 05:12 AM

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The French connection

Cornishman 02-07-2017 06:22 AM

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Only one candidate, the original 'Italian Job'. It has the best car focused opening sequence as well.

Mike V. Florida 02-07-2017 06:31 AM

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The Rock!
Sean Connery in a Humvee and Nicolas Cage in a Ferrari on San Francisco hills.

funrunr 02-07-2017 06:47 AM

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The original "Gone in 60 Seconds"

zzlegend 02-07-2017 08:12 AM

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Neil, it was Steve McQueen in Bullitt, not Paul Newman, but Paul Newman did know how to race. Still one of my favorites.

Neil Mylar LakewoodCA 02-07-2017 09:40 AM

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zzlegend,
Thanks for the correction.
Very embarrassing.
Neil

zzlegend 02-07-2017 10:13 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Neil Mylar LakewoodCA (Post 1425832)
zzlegend,
Thanks for the correction.
Very embarrassing.
Neil

No embarrassment Neil. ;) Its all good. :) Paul Newman did a lot of movies. Great actor.

Chuck Dempsey 02-07-2017 10:17 AM

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Bonnie and Clyde was on TCM the other day. Lots of Model A's, the real thing (not CGI).

Cornishman 02-07-2017 12:08 PM

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It probably means nothing to those living in the USA so;
https://youtu.be/kuKYtRuDiuw

and
https://youtu.be/cgJuVOrXv68

California Travieso 02-07-2017 06:20 PM

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If you include foreign cars, my favorites are the early Bond films with Sean Connery in the Aston Martins with all the gadgets.

David Serrano

todd3131 02-07-2017 07:11 PM

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Bullet hands down. Trivia about it the part where they take off the driver door on the parked car was not planned because many of the scenes were filmed without permits and the car was a real person. Dangerous for sure but made it real and McQueen did his own driving

J Franklin 02-07-2017 07:55 PM

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It's a MAD MAD MAD MAD World, funniest car chase. Phil Silvers lost most of his doors!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUH5H60JYFw

Pmsqrd 02-07-2017 08:05 PM

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Just about any Harold Lloyd or Buster Keaton chase scene.

WestCoast 02-07-2017 10:48 PM

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bullet ,foreign car chases crack me up, worthless mini cars, 40 hp engines doing 40 mph

SeaSlugs 02-07-2017 11:11 PM

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no one but me is going to mention the blues brothers?? Also not really a car chase but John candy in t
planes trains and automobiles when hes driving the wood grain lime green Chrysler lebarron is a memorable car scene..." Sir do you know how fast you were going?" "no, the speedometer melted"

zzlegend 02-07-2017 11:14 PM

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I think Neil picked a winner. Bullitt. My favorite and probably started a trend in movie chases.

California Travieso 02-07-2017 11:32 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by J Franklin (Post 1426277)
It's a MAD MAD MAD MAD World, funniest car chase. Phil Silvers lost most of his doors!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUH5H60JYFw

There were two car chases in that movie:

1. The cops chasing Jimmy Durante until he went off the cliff and then he told the witnesses where he buried the loot before "kicking the bucket"; and

2. the witnesses chasing each other to get to the spot (the big X) where the loot was buried.

Greatest comedians from the old days.

David Serrano

steve s 02-08-2017 12:42 AM

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NOTHING gets the juices flowing like this one:

https://vimeo.com/34039780

Connect to your best speaker system, and crank it up.

J Franklin 02-08-2017 12:44 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Pmsqrd (Post 1426282)
Just about any Harold Lloyd or Buster Keaton chase scene.

These at least are on Ford Barn topic!!!!

Chippy Minton 02-08-2017 02:42 AM

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Originally Posted by WestCoast (Post 1426347)
bullet ,foreign car chases crack me up, worthless mini cars, 40 hp engines doing 40 mph

I take it you haven't actually watched them then? Typical uneducated narrow, nationalistic mindedness?

Cornishman 02-08-2017 02:47 AM

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I've never understood the appeal of overpowered cars with no traction and the roadholding of boiled pasta? They don't make good road cars or car chases. It must, yet again be to do with nationality. If you want a good Steve McQueen vehicle sequence then The Great Escape wins hands down.

quickchange 02-08-2017 02:52 AM

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Im going for the Peter Jackson remake of King Kong, final scene when kong chases the 4dr A sedan down the street & rips the roof off, This car belonged to me before the movie, I sat through the movie just to watch the last scene & by the way no vehicles where hurt in the making of it , how they faked it I don,t know ,mind you in the movie all vehicles where LHD , but in real life most where RHD , lots of local Model A,s where used.

Capt Quahog 02-08-2017 03:45 AM

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Absolutely . . . The best car chase was in "MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD" After-all, the entire movie plot was based on a car chase with a bunch of money crazed average slobs trying to get to "The Big W" to dig up the cash. Saw that flick back in 1962 (?) when it was shown in ultra super wide-screen CINERAMA. At the movie beginning when Jimmy Durante drives the 1957/1959 Ford (different film versions) over the cliff, seeing that scene in the CINERAMA theater causes the viewer's stomach to flip over at least a couple of times. That movie was made for CINERAMA theaters.

Jeff/Illinois 02-08-2017 12:18 PM

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Bullitt hands down.

Next would be the ORIGINAL Gone in 60 Seconds that show beats the re-make ten times over. Fun to watch,,,, the street scenes are great especially if you love 60's and early 70's cars.!

And Popeye Doyle in French Connection, a good one also!!!

Snowing out.... think I'll pop in my copy of the Tony Halicki 'Gone in 60 Seconds' you talked me into it;)

mike657894 02-08-2017 01:06 PM

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bullitt.

SeaSlugs 02-08-2017 01:10 PM

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I dunno underpowered tiny cars are incredibly fun to drive fast, you get that fun sensation of the brink of sliding out of control and can put the pedal to the floor all while staying under the speed limit. That and most handle like gokarts and who doesnt like gokarts. Drive the crap out of a 90's ford fiesta and tell me it wont get a big grin on your face. :P

Special Coupe Frank 02-08-2017 01:21 PM

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Harold Lloyd - "Speedy", 1928; "Get out and get under", 1920.

W.C. Fields - "Sally of the Sawdust", 1926 - Fields chasing bad men / being chased by bad men on the then-rural Long Island Parkway. Fields is driving a T, bad men are in a Cadillac?

Michael Keaton - "Johnny Dangerously", 1984

Humphrey Bogart - "High Sierra", 1941, bad man Humphrey Bogart flogs the livin' hell out of '37 Plymouth coupe, eluding cops in big Buicks.

J Franklin 02-08-2017 01:23 PM

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Underpowered cars at full throttle reminds me of how I used to drive my A. I once took a curve on 2 wheels, only once!

JDupuis 02-08-2017 01:42 PM

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The original Italian Job. The Mini's rule.
Steve S. I enjoyed the video, the happy ending was worth it. :) Jeff

Willie Krash 02-08-2017 02:03 PM

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OJ in a white Bronco.

CHuDWah 02-08-2017 05:01 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Special Coupe Frank (Post 1426596)
Humphrey Bogart - "High Sierra", 1941, bad man Humphrey Bogart flogs the livin' hell out of '37 Plymouth coupe, eluding cops in big Buicks.


Interesting trivia about Bogie's car(s) in that movie - the Plymouth kept morphing between a 37 and a 38 (similar to 37 but shorter, wider grill). Apparently the studio had one of each and used them interchangeably.

CarlG 02-08-2017 05:09 PM

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Kinda like Desi & Lucy in "The Long-long Trailer". They alternated between a Mercury convertable & a Lincoln Capri while pulling the trailer.


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