this scene is genius...it's like a prologue,and it somehow vaguely contains all the elements of the movie(obsession,hatred,lunacy). It's also so incredibly cynical and brutal...what a movie. thanx so much for posting this.
I watched this movie for the first time with my dad, and he said to me: "You see that, son? So many different, and apparently random, things happening before your eyes. You sense there's a connection with the events to come, but still you cant tell a damn of what's going on. That's what makes a movie opening great." How true he is!
@@paulanthony5274 Same Here...&: I Was Fifteen, Also When I First Saw This On The Movie Channel: The Only Premium Network Where One Can Watch "R"-Rated Films Before 7, @ The Time. 👍
Spah/Dova's reaction to the oil truck is genuine. He wasn't told ahead of time how the scene would end. He wasn't actually driving, the car was being pulled. At the last minute they had a truck pulled up directly in front of the car, so he totally didn't expect it, or the flames shooting up around the car. He later said he was more scared in that car than he was on board the "Hindenburg" as it was burning.
This whole scene takes place on E 89th. It starts at 89th and 2nd and goes all the way across to the Park Ave Synagogue between Park and Madison. I live on 90th and 3rd....really cool to see how the neighborhood looked back then (2:17 89th and 3rd, 2:25 89th and Lex, 2:50 89th and Park).
Whats funny is I had this movie in my collection for years and didn't even know what it was, one day I put it in and to my surprise I actually really enjoyed this movie alot. It's was just insane.
Really brilliant how this movie starts off playing like a screwball comedy until that deadly crash--kind of the same approach as "Bonnie and Clyde." Or Schlesinger's own "Midnight Cowboy," for that matter. The scene between Rosenbaum and the auto mechanic which precedes this is hilarious too: "An appointment! What are you, a doctor?"
@tine214 The car is a W111 heckflosse. The car has some modifications which make the model uncertain. It appears to have a removed door mirror, and removed inner front lights, meaning the car is probably 1963-65 as USA spec cars had no inner lights from 1962 onward and on all the mirror was moved from fender to door in 1963. At one point the "220" can clearly be read, but the car has larger rear lights of a higher model.
I think it is a 220Sb. I owned a pristine 220b for many years, with the smaller tailights. It was a four speed manual "on the tree". The Sb was probably the fluid coupling automatic. Great cars!
This scene is really odd and goofy when watch the movie for the first time (like I did last night), but by the end of the movie it makes perfect sense.
Holy fuck what a funny scene. I love how he pulls up behind the nazi and immediately starts honking and goes "Move that heap!" And when he doesn't move in like 2 seconds he calls him "a goddam menace!"
2:06 "Ich werde Die mal was Zeigen dass Ich ein besseren Fahrer bin als Er" ..."I'll show him I'm a better driver then he is" I can tell he was a real German by the way he pronounced it all. The actor in the American banger had a stonger accent.
Yeah, that was almost as good as the old woman in the diamond district recognizing Zell. So many great scenes in this movie, even by bit players. "He is a BEAST!"
The failure to start reminds me of my W114 /8 with Stromberg carburetors. They had a rubber membrane (unlike the SUs) to manage the vacuum operated piston to control mixture. Over time the membrane would perish due to the fuel and small holes appear, compromising the vacuum and thus making the mixture weaker, causing running and starting problems.
Armin, I was just researching your uncle on Newspapers.com, reading all the interviews every time Holidays On Ice opened somewhere. Believe it or not, this is my first time seeing this scene!
This is one of my favorite moments in movie history! So funny, absurd, sad and strong. All of the violence in this flick is great, it's a shame they cut some of Roy's scenes :(
To establish that the main bad guy's brother--who I gather is an important part of the diamond-smuggling operation--got killed, setting the chain of events into motion.
The one car starts on 86th St, then both cars go west on 87th St. Suddenly they are magically going west on 91st St, while the congregants at Park Ave Synagogue, which is on 89th St are somehow looking on at the conflagration on 91st St!
@@9nine11eleven Thanks for the clarification. Given the context of the scene, I thought it was some kind of anti-Semitic Holocaust reference, (like a reference to the summer of 1941 or something) I completely misunderstood!
Dwight DAYMEN ... You might have learned it in the 2 years since your comment, but Diesels don't need glow plugs to run. They help with starting a cold engine. Some Diesels use heating elements in the intake rather than plugs in the head.
Likely it was the stromberg carburettor membrane used to control the jet needle position using vacuum pressure. After a while the rubber succumbs to the petrol and holes appear. Older sticky carbs make it worse. I had this problem on my 1971 114/8.
A 1970 Chevorlet Impala vs. a 1961 Mercedes Benz...If you freeze it at 0:25 sec. you will notice that the black guy who's driving The Yellow 1975 Plymouth Fury cab looks just like the crazy Jew...Same craziness..
Dank U wel!! Tegenwoordig studeer ik Nederlands, een mooie taal, denk ik. Ich spreek wat Duits, en dat helpt me de Nederlandse taal te leren. (Ik studeer ook Afrikaans, maar ik geef de voorkeur aan het Nederlands).
This scene must've been shot on different days. Notice at 0:36 laundromat has "going out of business" sign and at 1:27 the sign is not on the window. I grew up in the neighborhood....it's changed much since then.
I think lots of people looked like Frank Zappa at the time. In Death Wish, Bronson kills two muggers on the subway and one looks like Zappa and the other like Bruce Springsteen. American pop music should have ended right there...
My man was pissed off at the German. The Benz was crunched, jacked up in the back. He WAS NOT playing, at all. Both of them played this scene for all it was worth. Lol
The old German was played by a Hindenburg survivor -- can't find who the old Jew was but it sure seems to me that the idea was two old men, born in the teens or before of the 20th century, both WW2 vets, now running into each other again, old hatreds still present. The old German is Szell's brother, I am not sure how clear they make this. I am surprised the old Jew is not credited or listed even as uncredited, maybe I am missing this. BTW, Goldman wrote at least one autobio and his nonfiction is great to read. Look at his credits, how many of his books and movies were just plain entertaining.
That is a pretty lame explosion, with some poor editing besides (continuity errors), but you get to hear the legendary "Universal explosion" sound effect (made famous in countless episodes of The A-Team) in all its glory. Where in NYC was that blowup shot, btw? Next time I take the bus into town I'll have to make a pilgrimage. :-)
this scene is genius...it's like a prologue,and it somehow vaguely contains all the elements of the movie(obsession,hatred,lunacy). It's also so incredibly cynical and brutal...what a movie. thanx so much for posting this.
"you Mercedes bastard!!"
Sounds like something I say while I have road rage 😂🤣
I say that with BMW and Audi drivers
@@Mavis308 Or get going you panzer bastard.
For you, this was one of the oddest car chases ever filmed. But for New York, it was Tuesday.
Morning rush or the drive home???
@@kwamestamps35 New Yorkers seemed to be a tense bunch at least in the 1970s. I like how 74 Fahrenheit seems to be considered a heat wave.
@@stevekaczynski3793 Look at the business signs behind the Jewish and German men at one point.
moments later, Tony Soprano approaches: "Jesus Christ, mister, you okay in there?"
RaulFAlaniz HAHAHAHAHA Yes
R.I.P. James Gandolfini.
How can it be okay if it's askew?
A truly brilliant scene to open a film with.
I watched this movie for the first time with my dad, and he said to me: "You see that, son? So many different, and apparently random, things happening before your eyes. You sense there's a connection with the events to come, but still you cant tell a damn of what's going on. That's what makes a movie opening great."
How true he is!
@@jmorlar2852 I laughed my head off when I first saw this when I was 16 it was the funniest thing I'd ever seen.
Greatest opening in movie history
"You Limburger-loving schmuck! Mach schnell!"
Oh man, I miss 70's movies.
Ditto.
David Topchiev 47st ??
When I first saw this movie I laughed my head off at this scene and kept winding it back,I was only about 15,I thought it was mad.
@@paulanthony5274 Same Here...&: I Was Fifteen, Also When I First Saw This On The Movie Channel: The Only Premium Network Where One Can Watch "R"-Rated Films Before 7, @ The Time. 👍
Spah/Dova's reaction to the oil truck is genuine. He wasn't told ahead of time how the scene would end. He wasn't actually driving, the car was being pulled. At the last minute they had a truck pulled up directly in front of the car, so he totally didn't expect it, or the flames shooting up around the car. He later said he was more scared in that car than he was on board the "Hindenburg" as it was burning.
I also like how Szell's brother disses Rosenbaum's "scheissig [shitty] Chevrolet".
He sais: Shit into your old chevrolet
Just a regular morning in New York City.
+JK193765 LOL...Reminds me of one morning on the FDR back in 85
Ehh what ya gonna do!
Germany vs Israel
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What is what they get driving on the Sabbat.....
This whole scene takes place on E 89th. It starts at 89th and 2nd and goes all the way across to the Park Ave Synagogue between Park and Madison. I live on 90th and 3rd....really cool to see how the neighborhood looked back then (2:17 89th and 3rd, 2:25 89th and Lex, 2:50 89th and Park).
My favorite part: “Juden!” “Why, you Nazi bastard!” That is fucking GREAT DIALOGUE!!!!
This is as real as it gets. I was once witness to an old guy acting just like that towards others with his shopping cart.
This scene set the tone for the whole movie.....awsome..
1:30 if I hear it right, he is saying: Scheiß in dein alten Chevrolet! - Shit in your old Chevrolet!
:D
He says "Scheiß an deinen alten Chevrolet".
My dad watched this movie with me when I was 8. so this was my favorite childhood movie
Whoever thought up that high pitched sound just before the crash is a genius. Good stuntwork.
Both diamond and tooth drill…?
3:37
Everything that exploded for 20 years made that noise.
You’re right. It’s the Wilhelm Scream of explosions.
Jerome Taperman lmfao! It is!
Whats funny is I had this movie in my collection for years and didn't even know what it was, one day I put it in and to my surprise I actually really enjoyed this movie alot. It's was just insane.
'Senile old cocker', the best insult ever.
Really brilliant how this movie starts off playing like a screwball comedy until that deadly crash--kind of the same approach as "Bonnie and Clyde." Or Schlesinger's own "Midnight Cowboy," for that matter. The scene between Rosenbaum and the auto mechanic which precedes this is hilarious too: "An appointment! What are you, a doctor?"
7beers: "And the point of this scene is ... ?"
To set up the entire plot of the movie, which follows thereafter.
The nazi played an important role in the smuggling diamond and after he died, Laurence Olivier, his brother, was very afraid of being robbed.
@@ivangomez123 really? I thought it was safe.
@@timcarpenter2441 is it safe?
Did anyone else notice Frank Zappa in the scene?
"Say 'Hello' to General F*ckin' Motors!"
Its so bizarre to think the German guy in real life was accused of bombing the Hindenburg almost 40 years before and also survived by jumping from it.
We have two German guys involved.
The best scene from one of the best theillers ever.
This scene is so intense and yet funny. What a exciting way to start a film
and at the end of filming both were probably the best of friends.
Those are colloquially called ‘ pleasantries ‘ in New York , those verbal exchanges we just heard .
@tine214 The car is a W111 heckflosse. The car has some modifications which make the model uncertain. It appears to have a removed door mirror, and removed inner front lights, meaning the car is probably 1963-65 as USA spec cars had no inner lights from 1962 onward and on all the mirror was moved from fender to door in 1963. At one point the "220" can clearly be read, but the car has larger rear lights of a higher model.
I think it is a 220Sb. I owned a pristine 220b for many years, with the smaller tailights. It was a four speed manual "on the tree". The Sb was probably the fluid coupling automatic. Great cars!
Man at 1:44 should win an Oscar! That's exactly what I would do if I saw this scene play out.
The deaths that started the entire plot of the film. lol
This scene is really odd and goofy when watch the movie for the first time (like I did last night), but by the end of the movie it makes perfect sense.
Holy fuck what a funny scene. I love how he pulls up behind the nazi and immediately starts honking and goes "Move that heap!" And when he doesn't move in like 2 seconds he calls him "a goddam menace!"
So NYC
Lol 0 chill
A piece of art ! My favorite movie ever ! 👍
I've always loved this heartwarming scene. Now, I'm going to shit at some old Chevy.
2:06 "Ich werde Die mal was Zeigen dass Ich ein besseren Fahrer bin als Er" ..."I'll show him I'm a better driver then he is" I can tell he was a real German by the way he pronounced it all. The actor in the American banger had a stonger accent.
I'm pretty sure what he says is: "Ich werde ihm aber zeigen, dass ich ein besserer Fahrer bin als er." (Your translation is correct though.)
JUUUUDEN!!!!! You are a JUDEN!!!
FKn HILARIOUS 😆😆😆😆
Yeah, that was almost as good as the old woman in the diamond district recognizing Zell. So many great scenes in this movie, even by bit players. "He is a BEAST!"
Schlesinger was a master at capturing the atmosphere of NYC
1:26
Me at the bus stop when people start shouting and arguing across the street.
Dude on the left at 3:11 looks like the rabbi from Seinfeld.
He also played the hotel doorman in Crocodile Dundee
3:39 That's got to be the most bored crowd reacting to an explosion that I've ever seen
Overall lesson here:
If your a mechanic. You better fix the air conditioning in someone's car.
The failure to start reminds me of my W114 /8 with Stromberg carburetors. They had a rubber membrane (unlike the SUs) to manage the vacuum operated piston to control mixture. Over time the membrane would perish due to the fuel and small holes appear, compromising the vacuum and thus making the mixture weaker, causing running and starting problems.
The man in the blue Mercedes (Ben Dova) was an uncle of mine.
Armin, I was just researching your uncle on Newspapers.com, reading all the interviews every time Holidays On Ice opened somewhere. Believe it or not, this is my first time seeing this scene!
Crash was on east 91st street between 5th and Madison. You can see the Carnegie Mansion in the background when the truck is backing out
This is one of my favorite moments in movie history! So funny, absurd, sad and strong. All of the violence in this flick is great, it's a shame they cut some of Roy's scenes :(
That's because they didn't want you to see it!
@@spo5egy no shit.
They did? o.o Are the scenes available on the DVD? I rented this on DVD a few years back but I don't remember special features..
One of my fav movie and a great car chase scene. Thx for sharing.
yes
To establish that the main bad guy's brother--who I gather is an important part of the diamond-smuggling operation--got killed, setting the chain of events into motion.
The one car starts on 86th St, then both cars go west on 87th St. Suddenly they are magically going west on 91st St, while the congregants at Park Ave Synagogue, which is on 89th St are somehow looking on at the conflagration on 91st St!
Bernie Sanders in his younger years.
LMAO
After living here now for a while, true.
StabbingPrivateMellish lol 😆
If only the internet and cell phones had been invented.....then they can show the explosions to all their friends on snap chat and Instagram
And twerk to BLM in front of the burning wrecks for the views.
That man in the glasses was crazy! I wouldn't want to run into him!
Maybe he was right?
Little did the road rager know that his actions shut down a most evil jewelry smuggling operation.
He got killed doing it, and the scene is a sort of parable on what happens when rage gets of control.
Great movie. A very memorable scene.
1:15 : - "Get him some trifle."
You can really see why they're unwelcome in so many different nations.
New Yorkers?
@@DjeauxSheauxlol
Judah... you are der Judah!
lololol
James Dean : "And this generation was saying about us we have no course!"
Reasons why crabby Jewish and German old timers should stay out of NYC streets and take their fight to the chess table in Central Park
I grew up in New York in the '70s and this was just another day in New York.
Same here!
What does he mean when he says "Long summer"?
The words sounding appears as 'Long Summer' but it means the german word 'Langsamer !' meaning 'slow down !'.
@@9nine11eleven Thanks for the clarification. Given the context of the scene, I thought it was some kind of anti-Semitic Holocaust reference, (like a reference to the summer of 1941 or something) I completely misunderstood!
I wonder what was wrong with his Mercedes? Perhaps it was a diesel and one or more glow plugs was out LOL
Diesels don't backfire. His car backfired before it stalled. He needed points and plugs in those days.
Dwight DAYMEN ... You might have learned it in the 2 years since your comment, but Diesels don't need glow plugs to run. They help with starting a cold engine. Some Diesels use heating elements in the intake rather than plugs in the head.
It was a piece of shit gas job with the timing off.
What could you expect from beat up junker 1961 Mercedes back in 1976??
Likely it was the stromberg carburettor membrane used to control the jet needle position using vacuum pressure.
After a while the rubber succumbs to the petrol and holes appear. Older sticky carbs make it worse.
I had this problem on my 1971 114/8.
A 1970 Chevorlet Impala vs. a 1961 Mercedes Benz...If you freeze it at 0:25 sec. you will notice that the black guy who's driving The Yellow 1975 Plymouth Fury cab looks just like the crazy Jew...Same craziness..
@moogyboy6 "langsamer" means "slower"
for "qiet" wie say "halt den mund" or "halt's maul" -> "shut up"
Hehe, halt's maul. Some German guy taught that one to me years ago. That one is REALLY bad but it doesn't translate into English well.
As an millennial old soul person, it's one of my favorite movies.
46 years later and it could have been written today.
"Geh ! Leck mich am Arsch..Scheiss an deinen alten Chevrolet!" Truly wonderful phrases in the USA
a2z60s is that what klaus szell said
Could you translate
It's very basic.."Go away and kiss my a**, I shit on your old Chevrolet "
a2z60s could you translate the whole initial insults from both people?
Dank U wel!! Tegenwoordig studeer ik Nederlands, een mooie taal, denk ik. Ich spreek wat Duits, en dat helpt me de Nederlandse taal te leren. (Ik studeer ook Afrikaans, maar ik geef de voorkeur aan het Nederlands).
that mercedes is a fucking tank
great movie- just watched blue ray
That car was only a few yrs. old at the time he must have really abused that shit out of it..
adam pagan he was an ornery old bastard!
@@eyeswideshut7354 True!!! XD
Why yes
The old Jewish driver was played by character actor Lou Gilbert, who had the lead role in director Philip Kaufman's 1965 film debut "Goldstein"
The guy driving the Impala looks like Larry David
Can't find the street scene from near the end on here, the one they parodied in Seinfeld, best bit!
"You are a theif!"
Totally EPIC Scene!
I love the Jewish guy, he ain't taking any shit!
Road rage at its finest.
This scene must've been shot on different days. Notice at 0:36 laundromat has "going out of business" sign
and at 1:27 the sign is not on the window. I grew up in the neighborhood....it's changed much since then.
Nah, they just didn't waste any time going out! ;-)
@Ed Miller I agree. Growing up there through the 1970's, 80's and early 90's were great.
3:12 - fuel truck appears - this will not end well...
There are no available scenes that I know of :(
I don't mean that, but that was funny. The Jewish Guy yell " gay coken offen yom" which means "Go shit in the river".
Does anyone know if that's Frank Zappa at the beginning as a bystander? IMDb doesn't list him at all but it really looks like him.
I think lots of people looked like Frank Zappa at the time. In Death Wish, Bronson kills two muggers on the subway and one looks like Zappa and the other like Bruce Springsteen. American pop music should have ended right there...
I think you're right. Its that kind with the little tailfins.
This is what we screenwriters call... a grabber opening.
I guess driving in NYC "is not safe" ... (Get it ? ;)
CULT (The dubbed German version of the scene is even better.)
Was this at 2.06? He said :"I will show him that I am a better driver than he is!"
Recalls the WW2 challenge...like a panzer vs a sherman
what's the name of this movie.
MARATHON MAN
Is it just me, or does the other driver bear a striking resemblance to Johnny Knoxville's Bad Grandpa?? :D
When would anything blow up?
03:11 The Rabbi from Seinfeld
He just finished dishing about his followers and their sexual trysts.
Gramp Turismo
Tremendous 👏
Great Line
My man was pissed off at the German.
The Benz was crunched, jacked up in the back.
He WAS NOT playing, at all.
Both of them played this scene for all it was worth. Lol
This is kinda funny how the guy messes his car up after coming from the car service place.
Nice Mercedes.
The old German was played by a Hindenburg survivor -- can't find who the old Jew was but it sure seems to me that the idea was two old men, born in the teens or before of the 20th century, both WW2 vets, now running into each other again, old hatreds still present. The old German is Szell's brother, I am not sure how clear they make this. I am surprised the old Jew is not credited or listed even as uncredited, maybe I am missing this. BTW, Goldman wrote at least one autobio and his nonfiction is great to read. Look at his credits, how many of his books and movies were just plain entertaining.
Rosenbaum, played by Lou Gilbert.
He played this scene so well, with an aire of comedy, if possible.
That old Merc would be worth a fortune now
A Jewish Junior Soprano!
Lol
Hatred got them both killed.
You know that Mercedes be worth a fortune today!
A 1961 Mercedes beat up as it was then nothing.. Today if restored a small fortune..
That is a pretty lame explosion, with some poor editing besides (continuity errors), but you get to hear the legendary "Universal explosion" sound effect (made famous in countless episodes of The A-Team) in all its glory. Where in NYC was that blowup shot, btw? Next time I take the bus into town I'll have to make a pilgrimage. :-)