Great chase scenes

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Profpointy

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Here are some of my favourites

"Ronin", De Niro, Jean Reno, Skarsgard, and Jonathan price in excellent spy / heist movie


View: https://youtu.be/MxxH0lZSYgU


And the locomotive chase from Buster Keyton's masterpiece, "The General". The loco chase is probably a half the film but here are some snippets


View: https://youtu.be/tgQ8VwW19iw


Gene Hackman chasing a subway train in the "Fremch Connection"


View: https://youtu.be/4mgIDVwdD-M


And the greatest chase in all cinema


View: https://youtu.be/jrmZIgVoQw4
 

Cycleops

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Probably the best chase scene is this from Ronin ( sorry Prof didn't see your post.


View: https://youtu.be/CVaNBrYLvFg


If DeNiro looks scared ****less because he probably was. He wasn't actually driving, . To make it look like Robert De Niro and Natascha McElhone were actually driving during the car chase, right-hand-drive cars were used, with the passenger side made to mirror the real controls. Formula One driver Jean-Pierre Jarier, and high-performance drivers Jean-Claude Lagniez and Michel Neugarten were the drivers. All on the streets of Paris.A total of 80 automobiles were destroyed during filming. Apparently the French are very accommodating when it comes to these things.

The chase with the most number of cars used up until it's release and for some time after was the scene towards the end of The Blues Brothers. 500 cars were used.


View: https://youtu.be/8VFIPCpocLk

Also worthy of mention is the 70's movie 'Vanishing Point'.


View: https://youtu.be/mysVWG9vO1U


Barry Newman died just last week. Thread on here.
 
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I think it was proved to be a fake but there's a great video (maybe circa 2017) of a cyclist on a US Freeway being chased by the cops. Typically I cant fin it just now.

Edit its 2016 and mentioned on this video site I probably have to sign up to see it though.

VIDEO: Cyclist tries to outrun police cars​

If you ever have to outrun the police in a vehicle chase, forget about using a car, or motorcycle or scooter. Use a bicycle, as this suspect somewhere in America did. It looks like he made it, too.
January 18, 2016

https://www.worldhighways.com/news/video-cyclist-tries-outrun-police-cars
 
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tyred

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lazybloke

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Another nod to The Wrong Trousers, which i never grow tired of.

Also enjoyed Ronin. I suspect it's one of several DVDs i imported from Canada, back when UK availability was v poor. Not sure i have any way to play those films any longer!
 

Sadly, there's the oft-quoted/derided, editing
The green Beetle, the lost/reappearing hub-caps on the Charger, the final mis-timed explosion
The 20 speed 'box in that GT390
That said, whomever decided to let the V8s dominate the musical score, for the duration of the chase deserved an Academy Award that year
 
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