You may well be right! OTOH there is some strong competition. The obvious like 'The French Connection (1971)' for example, and some lesser known: 'Drive (2011)', 'The Driver (1978)', Capricorn One (1977)'. All, including your pick, are great fun. In fact I have a collection of 39 films with terrific chase scenes .. though not all with cars. And some not strictly a chase at all, for example 'C'était un rendez-vous (1976)'.
@@NoirFan77 I’m talking car chases only. The French Connection stressed me out because it was real. Too many close calls in that one. I enjoyed Bullet more because Steve McQueen can drive. Didn’t he race cars like Paul Newman did?
@@NoirFan77 I heard he did a lot of the driving himself which is why the sequence looks so realistic. Dangerous though because of the speed. Nonetheless, a good driver means better control of the vehicle which is safer. I trust a race car driver more than an average driver if I’m a passenger. Everyone except Gene Hackman that is! 😂🤣😝. Watching him drive and constantly pound on the steering wheel with his hands waving at people and saying “Get out of the Way” was nerve wracking to say the least! Watching him drive would give me a heart attack! In my mind I can picture Dustin Hoffman as Ratso Rizzo pounding his fist on a car and saying “I’m walking here” and Hackman running him over and yelling “not anymore your not”. I dunno I get my seventies movies blurred together sometimes. So then Hoffman asks him “Is it Safe?” so Hackman replies “Not with me driving on the streets it’s not”. He literally could have killed somebody with his driving during the filming. The only thing missing was a woman crossing the street with a Baby carriage and Hoffman would just yell “Get out of the Way” Bang! the Baby Carriage goes flying up in the air. Luckily it was filled with only aluminum cans and not a baby. 🤣😂😝 But anything could have happened that day. They were just lucky they only clipped cars and didn’t run over or ram anyone at high speed. Imagine filming that driving sequence today? It would result in a ton of lawsuits. A miss is as good as a mile as they used to say. Don’t you agree? Good talking to you! Bye 👏🏻
GREAT MOVIE 🍿🎥
ONE OF THE BEST
Thanks for posting. apparently TCM didn’t have the rights to stream it so I couldn’t watch it.not even the intro and Outro‘s
Glad to help.
Thanks for sharing this one!
My pleasure!
Actually the film isn't about police officer's etc. Friedkin said it's about counterfeit people in a counterfeit world.
Last of the best
Nobody will ever beat the car chase in Bullet with Steve McQueen and the green Mustang. That is the number one car chase in cinema history.
You may well be right! OTOH there is some strong competition. The obvious like 'The French Connection (1971)' for example, and some lesser known: 'Drive (2011)', 'The Driver (1978)', Capricorn One (1977)'. All, including your pick, are great fun. In fact I have a collection of 39 films with terrific chase scenes .. though not all with cars. And some not strictly a chase at all, for example 'C'était un rendez-vous (1976)'.
@@NoirFan77 I’m talking car chases only. The French Connection stressed me out because it was real. Too many close calls in that one. I enjoyed Bullet more because Steve McQueen can drive. Didn’t he race cars like Paul Newman did?
@@dynjarren8355 Yes he was a real driver, cars and motorcycles. altdriver.com/people/steve-mcqueen-racing/. James Garner was another movie star/racer.
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I heard he did a lot of the driving himself which is why the sequence looks so realistic. Dangerous though because of the speed.
Nonetheless, a good driver means better control of the vehicle which is safer. I trust a race car driver more than an average driver if I’m a passenger.
Everyone except Gene Hackman that is! 😂🤣😝.
Watching him drive and constantly pound on the steering wheel with his hands waving at people and saying “Get out of the Way” was nerve wracking to say the least! Watching him drive would give me a heart attack!
In my mind I can picture Dustin Hoffman as Ratso Rizzo pounding his fist on a car and saying “I’m walking here” and Hackman running him over and yelling “not anymore your not”. I dunno I get my seventies movies blurred together sometimes. So then Hoffman asks him “Is it Safe?” so Hackman replies “Not with me driving on the streets it’s not”.
He literally could have killed somebody with his driving during the filming. The only thing missing was a woman crossing the street with a Baby carriage and Hoffman would just yell “Get out of the Way” Bang! the Baby Carriage goes flying up in the air. Luckily it was filled with only aluminum cans and not a baby. 🤣😂😝 But anything could have happened that day. They were just lucky they only clipped cars and didn’t run over or ram anyone at high speed.
Imagine filming that driving sequence today?
It would result in a ton of lawsuits.
A miss is as good as a mile as they used to say.
Don’t you agree?
Good talking to you!
Bye 👏🏻
@@dynjarren8355 Hah-hah! Hilarious!🤣