Greatest Movie Car Chases! - Page 7

homegrown · 13-01-2009, 02:16 PM

Dirty Mary and crazy Harry. Well its been a very long time since I seen it. But that line came from that movie too. Its very cliche movie but a race car driver a mechanic and a young lady are on the run from the cops In a big 60's Impala. Later they're able to steal a 69ish style charger. Then like vanishing point comes the Hemi on Hemi action. I won't spoil the ending for anyone who hasn't seen it, but it makes you cringe.

homegrown · 13-01-2009, 02:19 PM

Hemi or Mopar. I can't remember exactly what he said. Im sure it was Hemi. Well going to go find it now. I seen it on the US ebay awhile ago.

homegrown · 13-01-2009, 02:43 PM

Anyway I hope someone can verify that or maybe I'm wrong.

Another movie I really like when I was young'n was Steven Spielberg's "Duel". I guess that could go as a car chase, even tho it was a truck doing the chasing.

Velociraptor82 · 13-01-2009, 03:02 PM

Iv'e been trying to get it for a while now. I've seen it in US as well. ebay/amazon but never seen it in aust.

I do have a poor copy which was recorded from beta to vhs. I'll have to pull it out and watch it now.

FTE72 · 13-01-2009, 04:51 PM

I have got an original copy(in great nick) of both Dirty Mary Crazy Lary, and Vanishing Point(71) on Beta if there is anyone who could capture it and burn a DVD send me a PM !

Vanishing point I can get on DVD but DM CL I have only seen on Region 1 for US players.

Velociraptor82 · 14-01-2009, 10:48 AM

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Originally Posted by GT0132

The Driver with Ryan O'Neil is the best and nothing else comes close to this....came out around 1977 ...If anyone knows where I can get this on DVD I'd pay a months wages....Just can't seem to find it anywhere

Where are you located? I've seen Driver quite frequently in DS Powerhouse and JB Hi-Fi. It is in a yellow and black packaging. I picked it up a few months ago.

Velociraptor82 · 14-01-2009, 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by FTE72

I have got an original copy(in great nick) of both Dirty Mary Crazy Lary, and Vanishing Point(71) on Beta if there is anyone who could capture it and burn a DVD send me a PM !

Vanishing point I can get on DVD but DM CL I have only seen on Region 1 for US players.

I'd love to help as I've got everything required but I don't have a beta player. (blew up years ago)

Velociraptor82 · 14-01-2009, 10:55 AM

You can get Vanishing Point (71) On DVD but I have not seen it to be widely available. If you can't find it in the stores try ezydvd.com.au

Ives · 14-01-2009, 04:42 PM

The stuff they do in "Fast & Furious - Tokyo Drift" is pretty cool.

Dauphin · 14-01-2009, 04:53 PM

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The stuff they do in "Fast & Furious - Tokyo Drift" is pretty cool.

I remember sitting in the cinema and the trailer for that came on. I couldn't bare to watch more than five seconds of it. It looked like a big video game with bad actors and an awful script.

MONSOON · 14-01-2009, 11:35 PM

Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, now thats a hard movie to find, I've tried

Dauphin · 15-01-2009, 09:32 AM

There's a few on eBay if you're willing to import:

http://shop.ebay.com.au/?_from=R40&_...All-Categories

I'd also love to see it one day. My father had it in his '80s Betamax collection and I never watched it.

homegrown · 15-01-2009, 08:43 PM

Two Lane BlackTop.
I havn't seen that one listed. Thats the same 55 chevy used in american graffiti apparently. Not sure which came out first tho.

Hollywood Nights

Return to Mcon county
I can't believe these got missed.

homegrown · 15-01-2009, 08:45 PM

Im not sure if there was a car chase but "Sometimes they come back" had a tuff chevy in it.

homegrown · 15-01-2009, 08:53 PM

Gees sorry to fill up the page with so many posts but they're all coming to me now.
"Route 66"
A 66 mustang fastback, 55 chevy something else, cant remember
"King of the Hill"

"Born to Run"
70 Fastback Mustang drag racing everyone.
Another one which had a 57 chevy which I presume had some sort of washable paint and took off out the shop with 50 odd other chevys to confuse the cops. Which they then used the same idea in a rice burner movie.

Oh I'll be back with more.

Not a movie but liked 21 Jump st.

Nikked · 15-01-2009, 08:59 PM

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Originally Posted by homegrown

"Born to Run"
70 Fastback Mustang drag racing everyone.
Another one which had a 57 chevy which I presume had some sort of washable paint and took off out the shop with 50 odd other chevys to confuse the cops. Which they then used the same idea in a rice burner movie.
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Its a shame that (nick?) blew it up at the end but...

homegrown · 15-01-2009, 09:26 PM

"My science Project"
The Supercharged Pontiac that chases the electricty. (i believed it when I was little) Apparently caused a stir with the switch on supercharger just as Mad Max did.
Also Mikeys car was nice too bad there wasn't much of that.

Dauphin · 16-01-2009, 08:22 AM

Last night I watched The Cannonball Run, staring Burt Reynolds, Dom Deluise, Roger Moore and Farah Fawcett, Dean Martin, even Jackie Chan.

As you can imagine, it had heaps of nice cars in it and a lot of humour. The running gag with Roger Moore thinking he's really Bond is funny ("The Fly Who Bugged Me").

I hadn't seen it for a long time and thought it started with a Countach that goes into a construction yard to get sprayed with water to change colour, to evade the cops. Is that the second film?

Velociraptor82 · 16-01-2009, 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Dauphin

I hadn't seen it for a long time and thought it started with a Countach that goes into a construction yard to get sprayed with water to change colour, to evade the cops. Is that the second film?

You'r thinking of the Cannonball Run 2. It starts off with 2 girls doing a test run across the country in the lambo.

eyes87 · 16-01-2009, 12:33 PM

one of the die hards, i think it was the last one. cant remember it properly but i think there were trucks n helicopters. sorry if anyones already said this

BigTony · 05-02-2009, 05:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Dauphin

They still add tyre screech on dirt roads in films today.

I've lost count of the number of times I've popped the Bullit DVD in just to watch the car chase.

same here mate lol

Dauphin · 26-08-2009, 08:54 AM

Last night I watched Deathproof by Quentin Tarantino in 2007.

Think of it as two episodes, featuring the same Kurt Russell character who does some nasty things with his cool muscle cars to two groups of women. You can skip through a lot of the film where the women are just sitting around talking about dating, sex and drugs (and some over-long musical / dancing montages) and get to the parts featuring the muscle cars.

It is styled to look like an old '70s film with clumsy edits, scratches and features largely a Chevy Nova (I think), a white Dodge Challenger (hey, Kowalski!), a black Dodge Charger and one of the later Mustangs in yellow.

While it dragged on at the start of each "episode", the action parts make up for it and the contrast is a big surprise. It then seemed to finish all too quickly for me.

bbcoupe · 30-08-2009, 11:50 AM

Love these posts 'cause it gives me more movies to add to the collection.

My collection includes some of the best and the worst car orientated movies, some dedicated to featuring cars and others with just a few moments of fantastic chase scenes or the car stealing the supporting role:

From the 50's
The wild ride (Jack Nicholson)
Hot Rod Girl (Chuck Conners)
T-bird Gang
The Choppers
Thunder Road (Robert Mitcham)

From the 60's
Bullit (Steve McQueen)
Spinout (Elvis)
The Italian Job (Michael Cain)

From the 70's - The classic car movie/chase era!
American Grafitti (Ron Howard, Harrison Ford)
American Grafitti 2 (Ron Howard, Harrison Ford)
Blues Brothers
Corvette Summer (Mark Hamill)
Cannoball Run (Burt Reynolds)
Cannonball (David Carradine)
Deathrace 2000 (David Carradine)
Duel
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
Eat My Dust (Ron Howard)
Fast Company
Grand Theft Auto (Ron Howard)
Gone in 60 Seconds (Original)
Gone in 60 Seconds - The Junkman
Gumball Rally
Hot Rod
Mad Max
Midnight Spares
Smokey and the Bandit (Burt Reynolds)
Smokey Bites The Dust
Two Lane Blacktop
The Getaway (Steve McQueen)
Vanishing Point (Original)

From the 80's
Christine
Hollywood Knights (Tony Danza, Michelle Pfeiffer, Fran Drescher)
Mad Max 2 (Mel Gibson)
Redline (Chad McQueen)
Repo Man (Emilio Estevez)
Running On Empty
Smokey and the Bandit 2 & 3 (Burt Reynolds)
The Wraith (Charlie Sheen)
To Live and Die in LA

From the 90's
Vanishing Point (Remake-Vigo Mortenson, Jason Priestly)
Days of Thunder
Ronin

From the 00's
Deathproof (Tarintino)
Gone in 60 Seconds (Remake-Nicholas Cage)
Speedracer
The Italian Job (Remake-Mark Wahlberg)
The Fast and the Furious,2,3,4
The Dukes of Hazzard (Movie)
The Transporter,2,3.
Deathrace

homegrown · 30-08-2009, 12:08 PM

Thats a great list you have there, see if you try find Return to Macon county the 57 chevy on Nos and My science project, the supercharged GTO. I didn't see them on there. There's a couple of movies I'm trying to find which you might be able to help me and I don't know the titles but hopefully someone will know what I'm talking about.

I think its called Route 66, But can't find anything under that title. A 55 chevy and red/white 57 chevy race the route 66 also includes a 66 Mustang fastback.

And the 57 chevy that goes under ground through a secret entrance in a football oval

Another is Big Block chevelle which that takes on "Ice Man" A white 69 convertible camaro.

Any help on the titles of these movies would be great.

Dauphin · 31-08-2009, 09:42 AM

Nice to see Redline in there, bbcoupe. As cheesy as it is, that film really shows Chad McQueen's inherited passion for cars from his famous father.

Dauphin · 17-09-2009, 09:47 AM

I watched a film called Banzai Runner, made in 1987. It stars Dean Stockwell who plays a cop in a regional area who wants to stop speeding city kids with money who come out there and drive their exotic fast cars on his highway. It looked exciting when he takes his huge cop car in to get new suspension and a turbo fitted, but the film doesn't deliver.

Featuring a De Tomaso Pantera and a Porsche 928, among other cars, it is really badly acted and most car scenes use sped-up footage to look more exciting. The suped-up cop car doesn't re-appear until the last few moments to save the day and by then you're waiting for the film to finish.

Mr Hardware · 17-09-2009, 10:10 AM

The Blues Brothers is actually 1980.

XR6_661 · 17-09-2009, 10:12 AM

Ronin had the best car chases ever. That film is pure quality.

The Bourne trilogy have some good car chase scenes.

Kieron · 17-09-2009, 02:06 PM

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Originally Posted by homegrown

Thats a great list you have there, see if you try find Return to Macon county the 57 chevy on Nos and My science project, the supercharged GTO. I didn't see them on there. There's a couple of movies I'm trying to find which you might be able to help me and I don't know the titles but hopefully someone will know what I'm talking about.

I think its called Route 66, But can't find anything under that title. A 55 chevy and red/white 57 chevy race the route 66 also includes a 66 Mustang fastback.

And the 57 chevy that goes under ground through a secret entrance in a football oval

Another is Big Block chevelle which that takes on "Ice Man" A white 69 convertible camaro.

Any help on the titles of these movies would be great.

Dunno if this site has been posted, but you could trudge thru it and find these movies mate -

http://www.imcdb.org/

Danny · 17-09-2009, 03:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Perana XR8

C'etait un rendezvous

C’était un Rendez-Vous - (It was an appointment)

Yup was gonna post it but yes this is a great driving display, Chase or not.
A wonderful short film.