Thread: Car Chase

Of course it all started with "Keystone Cops" didn't it?

Originally Posted by Buzza

Of course it all started with "Keystone Cops" didn't it?

Ah yes!

And what a classic

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BqLEq86z-c&mode=related&search="]The Keystone Kops[/ame]

S'gotta be Steve McQueen in "Bullit", or is it "Bullet".

Any one remember Vanishing Point ?

There was only one..

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWLPIT-geTs"]YouTube - ferrari in paris[/ame]



Made with left over film stock and using the directors own car, all the traffic is real. No closed roads.

Originally Posted by Gra

There was only one..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWLPIT-geTs



Made with left over film stock and using the directors own car, all the traffic is real. No closed roads.

How do you embed a youtube vid?

me thinks you got a problem there Gra

ok now

That wasn't a Ferrari Gra. It was a Mercedes saloon, and the sound was dubbed.

Originally Posted by pawnhead

That wasn't a Ferrari. It was a Mercedes, and the sound was dubbed.

There is some argument over what car it was. The director certainly owned a Ferrari and a Merc at the time. Me, I dont care what the car is, just love the footage. It was an underground film for quite some time for obvious reasons. It was finally released on DVD about 3 or 4 years ago. Before that it was secretly passed around car circles. The director did get into some trouble for it, but not a huge amount as they couldn't prove he was going that fast at the time (70's).

I guess technically it isn't a car chase as there isn't anyone following, but its a great piece of film

I was going to post it earlier until I saw a picture of the director with the camera mounted to his Mercedes. I'll try to dig it up.

From the directors (Claude Lelouch) website. http://www.lesfilms13.com/dea_a_z/news/news87.htm



It's a Mercedes 450SEL

Here's a mash up using Google maps where you can view the route he takes whilst watching the video:
http://bhendrix.com/wall/Gmaps_GVide...endezvous.html

Sorry Gra but compared to BullIt or "the Italian Job" your merccarri or whayever is boring as batshat.... IMHO.

Vanishing Point, the whole movie. Drugs + Dodge Challenger = ...... well you just have to see it.

Was it "The French Connection" where in the middle of a car chase up a mountain dirt road there was a little car forplay when the yellow Porsche 911 did forward and reverse fkick turns in front of the Alfa MonteCarlo whilst still moving in the same direction? Not putting this chase in for a prize, but it was a nice interlude in the midst of mayhem.