Car Chase in The Seven-Ups
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- Car Chase in The Seven-Ups, 1973
Hickman performed yet another memorable chase sequence for the 1973 film The Seven-Ups (in which Hickman again worked with Philip D'Antoni, who had also produced Bullitt and The French Connection). In The Seven-Ups, Hickman drove the car being chased by the star of the film, Roy Scheider, who is heavily doubled by Hickman's good friend and fellow stuntman, Jerry Summers. The chase itself leans heavily on the Bullitt chase, with the two cars bouncing down the gradients of uptown New York (à la San Francisco's steep hills) with Hickman's 1973 Pontiac Grand Ville pursued at wheel-breaking speed by Scheider's Pontiac Ventura.
Even the engines of Scheider's Pontiac and McQueen's Mustang sound alike, and during the car chases in both films there is an almost complete lack of dialogue, although the reason why these chases work so well (and why Hickman himself was so highly regarded) is their gritty realism and the danger of each tire-busting slide, accompanied by close camera angles and camera-cars moving at high speed and parallel to the action car so you actually get to see the nervous faces of the actors behind the wheel.
In the accompanying behind-the-scenes featurette of the 2006 DVD, Hickman can be seen co-ordinating the chase from the street, where we also see another example of how memorable (and dangerous) these sequences were: on cue, a stuntman in a parked car opens his door, only to have Hickman's vehicle take it completely off its hinges, where (from the behind-the-scenes footage) we see the door fly off at such a force it could easily have killed the close-quarter camera team set-up only yards away (it missed them only by chance). The end of the chase was Bill's own idea, an 'homage' to the death of Jayne Mansfield, where one of the cars smashes into the back of an eighteen-wheel truck, peeling off its roof like a tin of sardines. - Авто та транспорт
if your a car guy you have to love the cars in the background,
YES, SURE DO, so many great looking everyday cars!
Every single one of them !
Too much Opel Kadette abuse for me.
So true
Yeah I could see some muscle cars in the background too idk
That Grand Ville had a curb weight of more than two tonnes and handled like a supertanker, but in Hickman's hands, it might as well have been a Ferrari.
July 2021, I purchased a '73 Pontiac Grandville Convertible, from the Original owner. I'm liking it, a Lot!!
Hickman was a fantastic driver!
Might Be Dumb Question But Why Ain't Roy Scheider Car With 👮 Light On Top Might Make It Easier Just Asking
@@lorenepperson2678 He was part of a special branch of the police and undercover. No lights.
Wasnt he the guy who drove the Mopar in Bullit ?
What I really love are the undercarriage shots on that downhill that give you such an amazing sense of how floaty the suspension on those old tanks were.
Yeah, if your suspension is that bad these days, it's time to get it fixed, lol.
Great chase scene all the way through. Roy Scheider's intensity absolutely sells it for me. Loved the old cars, no computers, no special FX, just pedal to the metal. That's the way movies should be made today.
Falou tudo irmão!!!
Scheider came out of that car looking like he had nearly died in the collision. He really sold that scene...
One of my FAVORITE car chases ever.
Unlike so many car chase scenes, the engine sounds in this one are realistic and believable. Not too overdone, no silly unrealistic stunts or CGI....and all the better for it!
Some are real but most of it comes from Bullitt. The Mustang was manual where the Ventura is auto.
Makes ya think both engine sounds might not be any of them.
Bill Hickman smashing through the two police cars then the police officers shooting their shotguns and pistols at him as they escape is one of the most intense, electrifying, climactic scenes I've ever witnessed in film.
One of the best NYC crime drama movies ever made!
Love the sound of rubber squealing in these awesome 70’s movies!
Bias ply tires and lots of body roll.
Great car chases always made the best 70’s and 80’s films. This is the same driver as in the Bullitt film in the black Charger
Bill Hickman (R.I.P.) the best stunt driver ever. I think Richard Lynch needed a wardrobe change after all that.
Those reactions of Lynch’s were genuine, Hickman scared the shit out of him.
Awesome chase! In fact, you know the crashing sound heard at 6:49 and 9:37 (the one with the distinctive glass shatter heard after the impact)? Well, there's PLENTY that I know about this particular sound byte. If anyone has ever played “Driver: You Are The Wheelman" on either PS1 or PC, you might remember this sound being used for crashing! Also, this sound has been heard in plenty of car chase movies from the ‘70s and ‘80s. Here's a list of all the titles I found the sound in:
1. The French Connection (1971)
2. Vanishing Point (1971)
3. Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (1972-1985)
4. M*A*S*H (1972-1983)
5. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
6. The Last American Hero (1973)
7. The Seven-Ups (1973)
8. 99 and 44/100% Dead (1974)(heard in trailer at least, I don't know if it's in the film itself or not)
9. The Towering Inferno (1974)
10. Race With The Devil (1975)
11. The French Connection II (1975)
12. The Kansas City Massacre (1975)
13. Cannonball (1976)
14. Gator (1976)
15. Silver Streak (1976)
16. Smokey & the Bandit (1977)(heard in trailer but NOT the final film)
17. Wizards (1977)
18. The Driver (1978)
19. Hooper (1978)
20. The Hunter (1980)(heard in trailer at least, I don't know if it's in the film itself or not)
21. Eyewitness (1981)(heard in trailer but NOT the final film)
22. The Fall Guy (1981-1986)(heard in the Season 3 episodes "Dirty Laundry" and "The Last Drive").
23. Cagney and Lacey (1982-1988)(variant/possible alternate take)(heard in the Season 3 episode "Unusual Occurrence" www.youtube.com/watch?v=79ef8...)
24. The Soldier (1982).
25. Impulse (1984)(heard in trailer but NOT in the final film)
26. The Terminator (1984)(ONLY in the original mono mix)
27. Commando (1985).
28. Mischief (1985)
29. The Man with One Red Shoe (1985)
30. Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986)(heard in trailer but NOT in the final film)
31. Maximum Overdrive (1986)(heard in trailer at least, I don't know if it's in the film itself or not)
Of the 31 titles I listed here, 18 of them (including The Seven-Ups) are 20th Century Fox productions, indicating that it was originally their sound. 12 of these titles (including the Seven Ups) have this sound effects guy in the credits who went by the name “Theodore Soderberg”, hinting that he owned the sound byte. To further back this theory up, Soderberg was active from 1970 to 1986, which happens to be the same era as the release of the titles I listed here. This also suggests that the sound was recorded in 1970, although I know of no titles released that year in which the sound was heard. Since nobody has ever bothered claiming copyright ownership to the sound since 1986, I felt that it would be a good idea to not only adopt the sound byte for my sound effects library, but also to utilize it in my own movies as well. I even have it as the default notification sound on my Android phone! I was able to create a Sound Effects Wiki article on it: soundeffects.wikia.com/wiki/CAR_CRASH_HEAVY%2C_GLASS_SHATTER_AFTER_IMPACT_(20th_Century_Fox), and it's available for download from freesound dot org thanks to me: freesound.org/people/77Pacer/sounds/425275/
Even now, I am still looking for this sound in movies. If anyone reading this comment knows anything about the sound that I don't, please leave it in the reply. Thank you very much!
I loved that game!
@@daystar4909 Me too! I have the PC Port. Which version did you have?
@@77PacerStudios I have the original pc Driver and Driver 2011 also on pc. I made a couple vids on them! ua-cam.com/users/daystarsearch?query=Driver
@@77PacerStudios I had both but preferred the PS1 version for the music and how the cars had more detail.. PC version for the infinite mass or (freight car) cheat. I loved driver so much I even had the demo on PS1 that was just a car chase with the black and yellow car which never made it to the final version, (unsure what car it was meant to be) I think they added it as a secret car on driver2 in Chicago. Words can never do justice on how much I loved those games.
Great post! You seem to know your stuff. I tip my hat to you.
Love watching the old school car chases... NO CGI.... real action... fun watching those big heavy all steel land yachts flying around & watching them "float" over the rough roads.... Too bad they don't make good lookin' cars with modern brakes & tires & suspension with the looks of the classics
Government regulation are the only reason why we can't get that today. Only thing we can do is restore these old cars that exist.
They actually do.
The big Grand Ville (a re-badged Bonneville) weighed 4000 pounds and wasn't fit for all the hairpin turns but the driver did an excellent job with it.
@@justbored9906 don’t mind if I do
Absolutely the truth
This is one of the sleeper good guy-bad guy films of the 70’s-if this is on any of the streamers and if you’ve never seen it-DO give this movie a try!!! Produced by Philip D’Antoni who also produced “Bullitt” and “The French Connection”-this was his first time out as director after having Peter Yates and William Freidkin helm the other two-all seat-in-the-pants thrillers!!! Fantastic stunt work in all three!!!They don’t make’em like this now!!!
The blue wagon (late 60s Buick/Opel Kadett) hit at 2:47 is the same one that has the door knocked off at 5:07 . You can tell by the identical front end damage and the blue you see when the door goes flying. They just rattle-canned it red to have it wrecked again. You also see background cars reappear quite frequently, including a brown Ford Pinto, a white AMC Rambler, and a red Pontiac Lemans coupe.
But I do miss videos like this where the car chases were real and not CGI. Seeing all these old cars is cool too.
Open Kadett sold at Buick dealerships. Made in Germany, had the smoothest shifting manual (ZF) thanamissions ever.
Remember this awesome chase when I watched it as a kid ,more than 47 years ago. Still worth watching now. 👍🏻👌😎
Yeah, I was in 5th Grade. My Mom let me stay up to watch it. RIP MOM.
@@franklinnose 👍🙏
Saw it with my parents back in 1974 at 13 years of age.
Yep, me too.
- though I forgot the rest of the movie.
🚗😁
@@dinakarsoul I wish I lived in the seventies, eighties, nineties and the beginning of the millennium
I hate this time I see life in the '90s, '80s, and '70s so wonderful I wish I wasn't born in 1999
Love it. The whole aesthetic, the grittiness, everything. You really cannot get it with movies now.
1970's movie car Chase's were the best, especially when full size cars are involved.
Exactly mate
Yes!! Those land boats! Great driving skills, great stuntmen….
@@marcelcovaci9922 Bil Hickman was the driver in the Grand Ville. One of the best, in not the best, drivers in the industry. I believe, but not too sure, Bud Ekins was the driver in the Ventura. Also one of the best. These were filmed at speed...and no green screen. Absolutely amazing.
@@codyluka8355 thank you sir. I don’t think people realize how difficult it is to drive a land boat like that at a high speed, specially in sharp turns, without losing control.
@@marcelcovaci9922 Well...it took a lot of balls to perform a lot of these stunts. It took skill...and a bit of craziness to pull it off. Hats off to guys like Hickman, Ekins, Halicki and Hal Needman who said "You want to see some crazy driving? Get your camara ready." A lot of the skill comes from a lot of practice and confidence...or fearlessness and just knowing your own car. We all bought big boats...they were cheap then and drove like we were Burt Reynolds. Lol!
Oh to be 17 again!
I'm so glad that nowadays, trailers have the impact safety bars on the back. One of my sisters, was in an accident, where she slammed into the back of a tractor-trailer rig, that pulled out onto the highway, and wasn't up to highway speed, yet. She slammed into it, doing about 65-70 miles per hour. The bottom, of the trailer's rear doors, came within less than a foot away, of taking my sister's head off. She ended up, suffering a fractured ankle, because the floor of her car, had crumpled, and impacted her foot.
frankenzion0001 They used to call that lower bar protection a “Mansfield Bar”, after the actress, Jane Mansfield, was killed by exactly the same way, came up on a freight truck in the fog , going way too fast. Took the roof off going under the truck!
I'm glad she survived
Can't have a good car chase without taking out a fruit stand ! They got it done in the first minute ........
😂
Or a plate glass window.
I was a big fan of Bullitt and the French Connection in my early 20's. I didn't get around to Seven Ups until my 30's, and this chase had me on edge. When Shieder sardine-canned that Pontiac, I almost pissed myself. Never seen anything like it before or since. Bill Hickman was a legend.
"Sardine-canned" A pretty accurate description...
I wonder which situation is more stressful, being in a car that gets "sardine-canned", and nearly getting beheaded, or facing a giant shark, and nearly getting eaten?
@@chrisrobinson3494 Probably the shark; it's a more primordial kind of fear of getting eaten.
Ronin
One of the best chase scenes ever ❤
Can't get enough of watching this! One of the greatest car chases ever besides Bullet. The City streets were so wide and clear back then. You can't do this now with all the congestion, bike and bus lanes all over.
Nothing beats the cars from the 70s good ol American iron not like the shit they have now
Agree 100%, sir!!
@@johngundersen7255 yes Sir I'm 47yrs old was born in 1971 I grew up with cars from the 70,s and 80,s true cars you have a wonderful day Sir
@_jeff _ yes. Sir 100% Agree
I remember in the 80's and early 90's the four door 1970's beasts went for under a thousand bucks. In 1989 an older neighbor lady offered to sell her mint four door Pontiac Grandville like in this movie, only it was baby blue, for $1,100. Foolishly we passed it up!
Most 1970's cars were pure crap. It was the dark ages for cars.
The old hiding-in-front-of-a-bus trick gets'm every time.
The great Bill Hickman. There were other great stunt drivers but no one could handle a big barge of a car in a balls-out chase like Hickman. Died too young. He was a racing buddy of James Dean, and James Dean died in his arms - Bill was following him when he had his fatal accident. Bullitt in New York. This is one of the most intense chases ever and as films go, it's very 1970s dark. And violent.
Bill definitely rolled that big Pontiac....what a driver!
Not many know that’s Hickman behind the wheel of the Pontiac Grandville. He looks a helluva lot different in Bullitt.
When you watch the chase in Bullitt ..the charger loses 5 hubcaps.
@@pat5882 no he doesn't
Great piece of driving. It's like a wild goose chase.The driver of the Pontiac Grandville is the same drive in Bullit who was driving the black Dodge Baracuda.Love the car chase of this movie The Seven Ups.
Good old non-handling, huge V8 tuna boats with lots of HP needed to pull these 2 ton monsters screeching all over the streets in their 35-55mph chase scenes. Just amazed how the tires put up with the abuse so long without shredding.
There's a shot in there of the GM hitting a curb with it's front left at high speed......realistically seems like that would bend the rim
Suspensions on both cars was modified, otherwise they were completely stock. Have the dvd and watched the chase featurette.
@@Mavis308 that would make sense. a stock suspension would have bottomed out way earlier in the chase
Yes the 1970s have some of the best car chase scenes in my opinion wicked 😀 👌
Why can't there be more car chases like this? No explosions, no mass destruction, just a couple of Pontiacs roaring and screeching through the streets at 50mph
Yeah and no cgi
Because with CGI there’s no need to get permits, insurance coverage and it can be refined and redone as many times as necessary. But the in the process the realism is lost
@@jennifersman7990 cgi sucks
The way that this scene sells the setting of both New York City and the less-crowded areas outside of it is legendary.
Which Parkway was that? Palisades?? Believe it isn’t the Saw Mill.
One of the best chase scenes. I remember going to the theater and watching this with my Pop. ❤
One of the best chases ever. I recently saw a advertisement for a movie filming on Olympic and Crenshaw Blvd, and the name of that movie??? BULLITT! Coming next year
Man, when are they doing more chase movies, and please, no damn CGI, just pure skills. "DRIVE" was good, was close, but only one chase in a movie called "DRIVE" is a bit of a disappointment
The awesome power of these muscle cars is on full display in this scene. You can actually feel the speed. Real action, no CGI. LOVED IT!
Those are definitely not muscle cars, lol. They were boats on wheels
Far from muscle. '73 would have been the first time the US got its fuel chain yanked. Even during the muscle car era's peak... they are nothing close to modern cars. Change the axle ratio and boom. You got something special off the line up to maybe 55mph.
@@3644Darrell Actually those boats were kind of sluggish although in the era when they were new there was still some real power left on the roads
--I don't remember when high octane gas stopped being sold,when that happened it was a real problem for some of the older cars including those Chargers,'Cudas and big old 1970 or older Ford wagons with the 429 before it got its valve timing messed with for emissions (and probably the heads redesigned for low compression)
The Ventura could of been with a engine swap.
I owned one of those Pontiac Venturas and it came stock with a 350. The car ran like a bat out of hell for the first year or so. The performance gradually tailed off until I eventually totaled it.
The traffic in new york back then is amazing. There was no cross town traffic that made it so hard to get through to you.
Nyc Sunday morning no traffic
Yup,drove to NYC through Holland tunnel every weekend,good times, down in Florida now,blah
Bill Hickman throwing around a big Sedan without any stupid CGI, purposely shaky cameras or short cuts to conceal sloppy stunt driving work is a treat even all those decades later.
4:29 awesome pans
4:43 long 12 sec of hyperspeed city driving
4:57 killer zoom
Amazing - the Grand Ville exits the George Washington Bridge at the on ramp for the Palisades Parkway - yet it suddenly ends up on the Taconic State Parkway, miles away!!
On the opposite side of the Hudson too!
They probably did that because they couldn't use the Palisades for the rest of the chase & had to continue it on the Taconic. Many times, when filming in public, producers have to deal with a lot of constraints. BTW, I have driven on that bridge & both of those parkways many times over the years.
I read that the Palisades Parkway police didn’t believe they were shooting a movie. Guess they tried filming this on a Sunday morning without getting permission😀. It did wind up on the Taconic, which is back in the other side of the Hudson. Great chase!
@@johnkavy In between heading *west* across the GWB and the part on the Taconic Parkway, they were driving on the Saw Mill River Parkway north of Chappaqua ( 7:21 ) (it switches to the Taconic Parkway just as they're reaching Readers Digest Road on the SMP), which is also on the east side of the Hudson River. Switchover is around 8:44 . The *only* way to get from the SMP at Readers Digest to the Taconic Parkway south of Millwood would be to drive a lot of slow local streets.
The Millwood exit ( 9:33 ) looks much the same, but the section of the SMP they drive was significantly re-done in the late 80's/early 90's. Oh, and busses & trucks aren't usually allowed on the parkways (they made sure not to film on sections with low bridges).
Gotta love the nitty gritty 70's!
They say that the chase in Bullitt was the best ever but in my opinion this is the best ever. Simply amazing.
I agree with you on this. Bullitt had a little more style with the way McQueen turns the tides and becomes the hunter but for balls out action this one is my favorite.
You r on the money
Absolutely. Great comment.
Yup! Bullit had San Francisco with its rolling hills but this is better.
NOT on the same level but good. The 7 ups and bullitt car chases have the same bad guy stunt driver. PRETTY COOL FACT.
I own this movie, as well as many many other Great car chase movies. I grew up on these type films. 'Aloha Bobby & Rose' is another good one as well as 'Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry'. 'Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw' is a Great oldie too. Lynda Carter is Beautiful in it..
Richard Lynch and his expressions as passenger is awesome..lol...Great driving and a great film.
"Hey, Rostov... It's time to die"
(I know, wrong movie... but I just love that movie as well and has Lynch's character suffering an equally painful death 😁)
With Hickman behind the wheel, his reactions were completely natural and unscripted 😄
Richard Lynch! THANK you! I knew he looked familiar. I mainly know him from a low-budget horror movie he did many years later, "Werewolf," which was lampooned on "Mystery Science Theater 3000."
Cloudy weather, sunny weather, morning sun, late afternoon sun - all manage to occur during the few minutes of the first scene.
We’re gunna need a bigger boat...
I think the 455 rocket was the biggest boat back in the day !
@Alex I know ! But I grew up back then and my first car was a Buick Wildcat .
Yeah man! That's Roy Scheider! AKA Chief Brody from Jaws!
Ha, land yacht!
This clip took me back to a greater time in this country with all the great cars and people and took my mind off the severe garbage we face today.
One of my favorites because the Grand Ville has dimensions similar to my Lexus LS460.
Love big Japanese land boats!!
You know. When I was working in NYC, some fridays I'd leave straight from work to upstate. And I've always had thay fantasy of a car chase and getting away. And I always thought that route they took out through Harlem would be a fun drive out. Now seeing it here is kinda trippy. But pretty cool too. Especially to see all the buildings I used to work in along rsd. Wish I could've experienced the city back then. Hell, life in general.
The “jump” sequence starting at 4:08 is Hickman’s little homage to the hillside jumps in BULLITT
That whole car chase was totally a BULLITT rip off, you could totally close your eyes and think that that was BULLITT. It even had the second guy load and shoot a shotgun at the pursuing vehicle!
Also used the engine and skiding sounds from the Bullitt Mustang…
R.I.P Roy Scheider!
Chiles Russell-Taylor my first celebrity crush!
That's who that was dude that killed jaws
The chase itself is good. The rest is garbage. At 5:43, I can see myself with the camera crew, huddling, as the cars were approching the GW Bridgwe to the north. I piggy-tailed the various camera crews for one whole weekend in the winter of 1972-73. Even was given a press kit of the movie. Very nice crew and cast.
I love how you can see the windshield crack when he hits the newspaper stand, awesome chase
WOW double clutching that automatic Pontiac Ventura...
its a good trick if you can do it.. accually it was the sound track from bullet.
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korgan can you be more specific?
😄😏🤔🤗👍✌
@@caveredecorator5310,
Korgan was being specific.
What ... do you need him to spell it out for you? 😃
Many people talk about how theres *NO CGI* and *ACTION* and no *EFFECTS* when the sounds are just ear screeching
Back when the cops would actually unloose a ton of rounds into a fleeing car and no one said boo about it!
That's because everyone drove around in TANKS and didn't give a fu*k.
A good old fashion car chase with no CGI whatsoever. The crash at 9:36 was scary as hell!
Yeah, every time I'd get off at the Millwood exit I'd keep an eye out for that disabled tractor-trailer .
Love the ‘73 Pontiac Grandville with the 455 cubic inch V8. This is a Grandville not a Bonneville. General Motors changed the name of Pontiac’s top line model in the early 70s to Grandville and they didn’t use the Bonneville name again until 1977.
Bonneville was still made but slotted below the Grand Ville
The driver of the Catalina is the same driver of the charger from Bullet!! INCREDIBLE. His name was Mr. Bill Hickman and he was my hero!
They have used the sound from the Mustang of bullet. Steve McQueen was double clutching that mustang just like this Pontiac Ventura plus you can hear the small block ford and that’s no SB Ford in the Pontiac!
The chase car is a GrandVille
Love how the big Pontiac wallows around corners !
parents had a 1973 Buick la saber 455 it was big like that no power and a sorry trans ..it bounced like that
@@gordonhall9871 Le Sabre
Yeah and it had the optional handling package (notice it has rear sway bar in certain scenes). lol.
Even '73 pontiac 455 had huge torque plenty of power. Buddy had one, would go 128 mph !
That Grand Ville is such a cool looking car
May Bill Hickman, Richard Lynch, and Roy Schieder Rest In Peace. Three legends who will definitely be missed.
I love Richard Lynch, the face of a bad guy.. Always plays the bad mo fo !
@@fehlrock, Yes, I hear you.👍
Boy that car was hurt bad after slamming through that road block. I wonder how mashed it actually was after tht hit. I think my favorite part about all this is the wind whooshing noises as these land barges fly down the street lol
Great chase scene! That’s the same guy that drove the charger on the movie “Bullitt!”👌😎👍
Bill Hickman- he also designed the chase scenes as well as drove in them.
Roy Scheider is driving a 1973 Pontiac Ventura which of course is the Nova lookalike but at a much lower produced figure (about 49,150) Finding an Nova bodied car unmolested these days is virtually impossible. The big Grand Ville (a rebadged Bonneville) weighs about 4000 pounds and doesn't really have the suspension to be doing this but the stunt drivers did an excellent job with it. At least it has the power under the hood with either a 400 or 455. 1973 would be it's last year of popularity due to the oil embargo soon to come but the big 455 was produced until 1976.
A very small portion of my childhood has been redeemed!
My brothers and I loved movies just like this because of Hot wheels etc..
I love this... I love the co passenger in the baddie car... His facial expression says it all. He was shitting it big style! I love the way he looks at Bill Hickman.
that co-passenger was Richard Lynch, in fact he was also a bad guy in the first ever episode of Starsky and Hutch, he had quite a prolific career back in the 1970s
A freaky boy you don't let your sister date for sure.
I do love the way they stole the Bullitt chase soundtrack and dubbed it over this one. You can hear Scheiders car changing gear, even though its an automatic!!!
The scene coming down hill and decelerating is exactly the same.
Matt Crooke R.I.P Roy Scheider!
Matt Crooke the larger car, the Pontiac Grandville’s engine and transmission was virtually silent even at full throttle.
Actually it's strange even in the Bullit. The double throttle makes sense when you do a kick-down to match engine revs with transmission and avoid locking the wheels, but in the movie we can hear the double throttle (heel-and-toe) also at each shift-up, which would just be a waste of time.
That's hilarious. I know that the driver of the four-door is the same actor who drove the Charger in Bullit, but not this. Again, hilarious. The entire scene is a rip-off.
You close your eyes and you think that you are watching Bullitt.
Classic chase scene. However, after driving for 50 years in New York City I can tell you the streets are never that empty i n daylight hours, and if you tried to drive like that in Manhattan you wouldn’t last ten seconds much less ten minutes.
On Sundays it is quiet. Drove several times to Manhattan to conventions at the Javits Convention Center, in mid-town on a Sunday, and the streets were relatively empty at least before noon. Weekdays are a whole different story.
Seven Ups, and Bullitt, to name a few, featured real cars, with real drivers, and almost always at real speeds. Hollywood has lost that these days. Now, a computer-generated stunt shows a car hit a few empty cardboard boxes, and it jumps into the air, going through two or three barrel rolls. It's getting silly.
Like Jason Bourne... the latest Bourne flick. Going through that sea of cars like he was going through a field of corn.
Don't forget Gone in 60 Seconds!
It's funny that you should mention Bullit and the seven ups in the same sentence.
Notice how the driver of the big blue Pontiac Catalina is the same man that drove the black Charger in Bullit?
@@valeriepickens2533 Yes, Bill Hickman, he was the stunt coordinator for Bullitt, the Seven-Ups and The French Connection. He didn't have a driving role in The French Connection but did appear at the end as the smart aleck NYPD inspector who gets shot by Popeye Doyle by accident just before the movie ends.
SEVEN UPS..... IS THIS THE NAME OF THIS SWEET OL MOVIE..... WHAT YR,. WAS IT MADE TOO ANT 1 KNOW IN ALL HONESTY.............?????????
Roy Sheider was an unknown actor in this film with a badass acting performance....one year later can you say JAWS
So he was new actor in this film? Just asking
Roy was already well known from THE FRENCH CONNECTION.
i don't think the guy riding shotgun with Bill Hickman was acting, lol. He honestly looked scared shitless at times
I agree he looks scared!😎
he is actually scared in real life riding shotgun with Hickman driving. during filming he admitted it....
LOLOL
Who is the shotgun character? He looks familiar.
@@akizeta That was the late, great Richard Lynch. He played a lot of memorable bad guys.
Reminds me of an AZ Highway Patrol car I once bought. A Ford LTD with a 7 liter. The carburator was huge because it had to handle all the air the motor could use.
SO MUCH BETTER THAN TODAYS CRAP
There are more kids playing in the street on that one block than ive seen in my whole city in the past 10 years 😞
love this movie. saw it with my father when it came out. love the chase. love ur channel.
Me too saw it with my parents back in 1974.
I remember seeing this movie when it came out. It never got the respect it deserved.
I wonder how they let all these children participate in this, and even get permission from their parents..."look, the scene is that your kids are crossing a street and suddenly these two cars come at 100 KPH and they will sound their horn and your kids will just...get out of the way....insurance you say? Nah, these drivers are experts!"
the same kids riding in the back of pickups without any seat belts and playing with candy cigarettes. they'll grow up to have condomless sex and only need a penicillin shot. Oh wait, they lived in the city--they ate lead paint chips and died early. Nevermind :)
@@albertgaspar627 ayo um what?
Unfortunately edited out of this posting is the end of the chase scene. The tractor trailer driver gets out of the cab, goes to the back of the trailer, and helps a visibly shaken Roy Schieder out of the crumpled Ventura.
snowrocket Ventura? Looks like a Nova.
It is a Pontiac Ventura, which is X-body Nova clone
@@nsaglian Don't forget the Buick Apollo or the Old's Omega......all the same bodies with different grills and tail lights
Underrated film, with a incredible chase sequence.
I like how they chase through Manhattan, across the George Washington Bridge, and take the first exit on the palasades parkway, but somehow end the chase across the river in Briarcliff Manor on the Hutch.
That's not the Hutchinson River Pkwy. That's The Taconic Pkwy.
One of the few chases (at the time) where the participants inside are actually seen acting and not just stone-faced, concentrating on driving. Look how scared Richard Lynch looks in the first half. Once they're escaping across the bridge he's grinning, confident they can get away.
speeta true
Gene Hackman in French Connection
Richard Lynch's look of fear at 1:16 is for real! Also the bad guy driving the Pontiac Grandville the is the same conservative-looking bad guy who drove the Dodge Charger in the chase scene in Bullit a few years earlier, Bill Hickman. Hard to recognize him with long hair and sideburns!
That's true. Lynch admitted he was horrified at Hickman's driving!
Ronin has good driver reactions as well
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Baddest ass scene 4:56
Don’t care what anyone says - after that scene NOTHING and I mean absolutely NOTHING comes close
The helicopter chase is unbelievable. Yet, there it is...
The Second Greatest Car Chase East Coast.
French Connection #1
@@coache1nine Bullitt #1.
@@maureencora1 Bullitt is #1 overall, #1 on the West Coast
@@coache1nine Touche' (smile)
Shows that Bill Hickman could act as well as stunt drive.
It will be funny if your engine got shot on the run
Props To Richard Lynch Too! Love It How Petrified Scared He Gets In The Big Pontiac!
He had a small acting role as well in the French Connection. And, of course, he drove the car in the chase scene with the elevated train.
Bill Hickman and his abilitity to drive could have gotten us to the moon with a slingshot and a paperclip... I'm sure of it!
Its amazing how a scene filmed so long ago can hold up to anything done today. For once, even if you did CGI correctly without overdoing it, it'd be nearly impossible to top this scene. These old, heavy boats of cars they had back then. The way they drove in this scene you'd have thought it was Cale Yarborough and Richard Petty behind the wheels
I don't know which is more fun to watch..Bill Hickman driving that Grand Ville.Or Richard Lynch's expressions the poor guy was scared,.I liked when he glanced at Bill like WTF you trying to kill me.And these people..Bill was one hell of a driver.
Everyone used the bullitt soundtrack, jumpin, 4 spped.. lol.. great movies and times..loved all of them..
Wow amazing ❤that actor with the short barrels shotgun he’s legendary from 70’s and 80’s generation
The Pontiac Ventura looking good, to bad they didn't really sound like that.
Too bad Pontiacs get ruined. I love those cars. I had 2 Pontiac of them and loved the cool Firebirds.
09:10 That look the bad guy gives when the ventura is trying in vain to run that big grand ville off the road...priceless.
Too bad the Pitt maneuver wasn't being taught then. That Ventura wasn't going to push the Grand Ville around.
My very 1st car at 15yrs of age was this 73 Pontiac Ventura Custom hatchback. It had a 350 automatic and low miles. Paid $1000 for it and I liked it because it looks like a Chevy Nova. Miss this car!
50 Years ago and still way more realistic than Fast an Furios xD
F Fast and Furious FAKÈ AF
I love that like Bullitt, there's a nice slow little volkswagen quietly tooling along every few blocks...
This is the art of great movie making! Another great classic movie I don't get tired of!! Bill Hickman, again, was behind the wheel of the Bonneville!! These stunts were stomach churning at best but pulled off brilliantly!!
It’s a Grandville not a Bonneville. The Bonneville wouldn’t come back until 1977, this was 1973.
Now you know that the WHEELMAN isn't driving a 'stock' Pontiac! That car was nothing but engines and pursuit evasion drive train, with racing suspension!
Sounds like they gave the Ventura the Bullitt Mustang exhaust treatment. And a fuckin train horn??
I remember watching this on TV with my dad in the 1970s.
That's when car's were bulletproof and made of metal!...todays cars are jelly moulds and plastic, hit a road cone and you would think it hit a tree!
For the most part yes but 2 years ago my girlfriend hit a deer with a focus and it put a dent in the fender which I had popped out in about 15 minutes it didn't even damage the paint
Really green! So how come new cars are safer and last longer sure got you fooled
@@ThePontiac98 Green drives one of them thar danged GM cars based on a Vega
With you on this one. My first car was an old Ford Thunderbird - turbocharged tank on wheels. I was coming off an exit ramp, got side swiped by an SUV - bam!! The whole car shook with the impact. SUV guy kept going and raced away, wtf!! Pulled over to see how bad it was - NO DAMAGE, I mean not a scratch!!
They don’t make em like they used to - gas guzzlers and all. 😁👍
Most of these care scenes are spectacular but so funny with those sounds taking in mind that in reality they are driving boats.
That Ventura is lighter by far than the average mid sized car today.
This chase scene was filmed in and around NYC, a place that I am very familiar with because I was born in Manhattan and spent my childhood & early teenage years in the Bronx. I then lived in NYC's northern suburbs for many years. I am therefore very happy and proud to say that I drove on many of the roads, streets, avenues, highways and the George Washington Bridge over the Hudson River between NYC and Ft. Lee, NJ that the great Bill Hickman ran & directed this chase on!!!!!
So you should be. I was born early 73 so this footage has extra meaning for me too even though I've never set foot there. Loved the taxis, other cars and the gritty streets then. Amazing.
I have a 1:18 model of a 1990s Chevy Caprice NYC cab!
Yup, still think about this chase when I am on the Taconic.
proud to have driven on roads? you have some aspiration in life
like duh so what
@@NoPrivateProperty You're jealous because I was there & you weren't!!!!!!
I can’t believe that light weight souped up Pontiac Ventura is struggling to catch that 4 door boat!