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The director called for maximum speeds of about 130 km/h (81 mph), but the cars (including the chase cars) at times reached speeds of over 170 km/h (110 mph). [34] Drivers' point-of-view shots were used to give the audience a participants' feel of the chase. Filming took three weeks, resulting in 9 minutes 42 seconds of pursuit.
As with Bullitt, The French Connection (also produced by Bullitt's producer, Philip D'Antoni) is famed for its car-chase sequence. What differs from the usual car chase is that Hackman's character is chasing an elevated train from the street below (the scene was filmed in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, with most of the action taking place on 86th Street).
In what might be the most famous chase scene in motion-picture history, Steve McQueen's Lieutenant Frank Bullitt chases down a team of hitmen on the streets of San Francisco. His ride? One of the ...
In the chase sequence, which occurs near the middle of the film, Hickman's car is being chased by Scheider. The chase itself borrows heavily from the Bullitt chase, with the two cars bouncing down the gradients of uptown New York (like the cars on San Francisco's steep hills in the earlier film) with Hickman's 1973 Pontiac Grand Ville sedan ...
One of the 1968 Charger R/T movie cars used in Bullitt. The 1968 film Bullitt helped popularize the Charger R/T for its notable car chase sequence alongside the titular character's 1968 Ford Mustang GT through the streets of San Francisco, which has been regarded as one of the most influential car chase scenes in movie history.
Car chases are often captured on news broadcast due to the video footage recorded by police cars, police aircraft, and news aircraft participating in the chase. Car chases are also a popular subject with media and audiences due to their intensity, drama and the innate danger of high-speed driving, and thus are common content in fiction ...
On June 17, 1994, the world stopped to watch one of the most infamous "car chases" in history -- that of football legend, O.J. Simpson. The car chase, which took place on Los Angeles' 405 freeway ...
Frank P. Keller (February 4, 1913 – December 25, 1977) was an American film and television editor with 24 feature film credits from 1958 - 1977. [1] [2] He is noted for the series of films he edited with director Peter Yates, for his four nominations for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing ("Oscars"), and for the "revolutionary" [3] car chase sequence in the film Bullitt (1968) that ...