bad kar movies......hmmmmmmmm.......i just watched "Death Race 2000" the other night

 

Some movie makers understood cars so well that they employed certain models to underscore their stories. Alfred Hitchcock and Steve McQueen were among the best.

A movie with an unexpectedly exotic car was Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" wherein Tippi Hedron drives from San Francisco to Bodega Bay with a gift of birds in her Aston Martin convertible. "To Catch a Thief" featured an amusing chase scene with Grace Kelly scaring Cary Grant with her fast driving in a post-war Talbot and, earlier, with Cary Grant's maid misleading the French police by driving his elegant pre-war convertible which I could not identify (could it have been a Talbot also?). To make Kim Novak seem even more mysterious to Jimmy Stewart Alfred Hitchcock has her driving a stately and distinctive Jaguar sedan in the thriller "Vertigo".

Steve McQueen was speed crazy. He knew how to drive his cars as well as display them in movies. In "Bullitt" he created the most intense chase scene to date with icons of American muscle while he chose a pale yellow Porsche cabriolet for Bullitt's lover Jacqueline Bisset, the British-accented landscape architect who could not comprehend his dual existence. In "The Thomas Crown Affair" he contrasted the deceptive heroine in her Ferrari NART Spider to the elusive hero in his sedate Rolls coupe, but they shared their best moments together in his highly modified dune buggy. In "Le Mans" he turned a racing movie into grand opera.

And I prefer the original "Italian Job" to the remake.

 

I'm kind of partial to The French Connection because I've driven on most of the roads that were featured in the chase. It's also just about one of the best chases filmed.


I don't think anyone's mentioned The Seven Ups, but that's also one of my all time favorite chase sequences. I guess having driven the streets where these chases took place makes them all that much more real and exciting to me.

Zip

 

i crashed my bicycle on the Saw Mill Parkway

 

1. LeMans

2. Grand Prix

3. Ronin

honorable mention

Bobby Deerfield--"little known Pacino film w/ great 70's F1 clips
Bullitt
Italian Job II - haven't seen original
Bad Boys-- I & II -- first was better, second has bad special effects & great cars

 

i'm still trying to find this movie on DVD (American tittle: Fast Lane Fever)
can anyone help me?

 

...and Blues Brothers, Christine.

Some of Gum Ball was filmed in Prescott. When the City has old movie night, sometimes Gum Ball is shown. Hey....idea....MINI rally for the next one?

 

^^^^^i'm still waiting for "Gum Ball Rally" to become available on DVD and "2 Lane Black Top", as well
.....but my plea for help still stands for finding..........."Running on Empty (Fast Lane Fever)...........help

 

I thought it was my ineptitude to search for stuff. Must be deemed "annoying" by the Authorities, and black-listed. I can't find it!

 

i dont think its avaliable on dvd.

heres a link to a vhs copy....

[FONT=Arial]http://cgi.ebay.com/Fast-Lane-Fever-...QQcmdZViewItem[/FONT]

 

Gumball rally, Two lane blacktop, The California kid, are all avaliable on VHS, not on DVD as far as i know of.

the only ones that have made it to DVD so far are dirty mary crazy larry, bullitt, vanishing point and the duel.....

 

They've been playing a lot of old school car movies on the Speed Channel lately. Maybe I'll try and catch some.

 

Gone in 60 seconds (remake)... Italian Job (remake) ... the Road Warrior is a classic action flick. I haven't seen Death Race 2000 in years... I loved the part where they roll out all the geriatric patients only to have all the hospital personnel get run over . My wife is an RN and didn't find that very humorous

 

Le Mans, Grand Prix, and Dust to Glory.

Mark

 

got it, finally

 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...240056?ie=UTF8

 

^^^^^ i actually found Gumball Rally on DVD at Tower Records over the Winter

 

1. The Italian Job - the original with Michael Caine
2. Bullit - it's McQueen it's fast
3. Mr. Majestic - there is only one truck chase this is it