10 More Best Mind-Blowing 1970s Car Chase Films (Part 2)
This is the 2nd video in our 1970's Best Car Chase Film series. See the 1st one here:
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Grab some popcorn and embrace that 1970s vibe while we go back to look at some of the Best 1970s Movies for all of us Car Chase Fanatics.
In the 1970s, Car Chase and Crash movies consisted of generally low budget films that catered to the summer movie market. These movies didn’t have lofty artistic ambitions and the plot, characters, and dialogue were mostly forgettable. We just came for the car stunt action, smashes and explosions, man! But the cars, chase scenes, vehicle stunt work and crashes were the stuff of legend.
The 1970’s were the days before CGI had taken over movie effects with its unrealistic physics-defying action and instead relied on careful stunt planning executed by unseen superhero stuntmen that gifted car chase movie fans with the celluloid brilliance that’s still electrifying some 50 years later.
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Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:40 The Getaway
01:43 Two Lane Blacktop
02:48 Death Race 2000
03:52 Double Nickels
04:58 Fear is the Key
06:13 Cannonball
07:34 Grand Theft Auto
08:34 The Gumball Rally
09:56 Mad Max
11:25 Outro
This is the 2nd video in our 1970's Best Car Chase Film series. See the 1st one here: kzhead.info/sun/hdBunpabp5-XjJ8/bejne.html Was you favorite in our compilation? Let us know your thoughts and which ones you would include in this video!
Duel.
The video comments on the '68 Mercury crashing into another car and emerging with the front end still intact. Yeah. That's not as unbelievable as you might think! I hit a deer at 60mph in my 1970 Sedan de Ville! The deer took out the headlight (just 1 of 4) and smashed the grill a bit. But other than that... The chrome bumper and the hood didn't even have a dent!
The introduction detailing the talented stuntwork and filming techniques is an excellent observation that underscores the timelessness of these scenes, and how there is no comparison to overused and underwhelming CGI.
If you like cars and fast driving, arguably nothing captures the essence of such better than The Gumball Rally. It's a genuine wind in your hair, WOT, spirit of driving experience, that actually uses the real actors some of the time driving fast. The scenes with the Cobra and "Daytona" particularly get your heart going, but the Camaro racing through the winding road is also pretty awesome.
I have Gumball Rally on dvd with Cannonball Run 2
Gumball Rally had two cute ladies in a black Porsche and the adorable elderly couple in the silver Mercedes convertible! Maybe two of the funniest scenes of this movie!
Very well done video, especially liked the mention of all the cars, naming them and the years correctly.
Love the video! But seeing those beautiful cars getting destroyed is heartbreaking! 🥺
Back then the only people who cared about cars like that were gearheads, after the OPEC oil embargo of the early 70's that caused gas prices to skyrocket society as a whole simply didn't want cars like that and they were a dime a dozen, even as late as the early 80's when I was in high school you could buy your average late 60's to early 70's muscle cars for $500 to $1,500 depending on engine options and condition, something in good shape with some rarer big block might have gone for $3,000 to $3,500 depending, your average high school kid with a part time job could afford to buy a muscle car that nowadays would go for tens of thousands of dollars in the same condition, it might not have been mint condition but you could afford one and fix things up on it as you went along in life winding up with a pretty nice car by the time you graduated, the parking lot at my high school back then almost looked like a car show these days. And this will depress you even more, in 1972 I remember going to the county fair with my family and a bunch of cars in the demolition derby were 55 to 57 Chevy's, at that point a car like that was just a 15 or 16 year old used car that no one cared about, even better, in 1973 and 74 there was a yellow Superbird for sale at a used car lot I could see from my bedroom window, through both winter's when the leaves were off the trees I could see it sitting there covered with snow, no one wanted to buy a car like that back then, it just sat for two years on that lot outside in the weather, people looked at something like that as a gas guzzling freak with that wing on the back of it. Of course all this was before rich people became interested in collecting cars like that and drove the price of them to the ridiculous levels that they're at nowadays.
I am the night rider a fuel injected suicide machine lol😄😄😄
The gumball rally was the first film my dad took me to the cinema to see when I was a young boy and I loved it and it was my first introduction to the AC COBRA and I was hooked on them and they are still my favourite car. I'm 52 now and I have a DVD of the movie which took me two years to find and it's a treasured possession.
I was between 8 & 15 when these movies came out, great time to be a kid in the 70s & go to the drive-in ✌💖☮
GREAT VIDEO!! THE 60-70S CARS ARE THE BEST YEARS EVER ,,. THATS WHY I ONLY DRIVE 70S CARS TO THIS DAYS.. YA!! FEAR IS A KEY GREAT,, THE CARS..
“ that Plymouth had a hemi with a torqueflite” - never forgotten that line!
“ I believe we sawed the guy off even though we did loose two hundred!”
"make it 3 yards mfer and we'll have an automobile race"- baddest line in any car movie
Cannonball Run got me into Camaros. Thank you, Gary Busey. "Roll on, yelllllll-ow Ca-maroooooooo!" So, I bought a '72 RS/SS after I saw the movie.
Car chase movies were so much better without this CGI stuff
I remember going to the drive in to see many car chase movies in the 1970's when I was a kid. Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry was another great one; White Line Fever; Gone in 60 Seconds, which you mentioned.
Real cars smackin’’ into each other with over the top fireballs! Lived it, loved it!
A friend of mine played this movie for me when I was 19. when I was 25 a friend of mine gave me a copy he made on VHS cause I had talked about it and they played it on SPEED which later became speedvision. I asked my wife to play it on netflix about a couple years ago just because I hadn't seen it in a while. and you are the first person to mention "Gumball Rally" since my friend at 19. which shows how unheard of it is. they were doing actual speeds during production of that movie, it was a real race. im fina give netflix five bucks again its been a couple of years since i've seen it and i love that sweet sound of that cobra as it pulls into the gas station about half way through the movie. thank you fellow auto enthusiast.
Mad Max will always be one of the top all time greatest movies ever made & happy to see it is #1 as it should be..nice top 10 list too.
Oh yes !...When I saw the first glimpse of the Pursuit Special at the drive in, I wanted that car so bad..years later as a non fabricator is a modified Grand Marquis that most people believe it to look like a DeLorean..ha ha
A Real Blast from da past, Thank you 😊
Never seen such, almost HD quality videos from the 70s!!!
Love both videos! I hope you'll have a part three in the works as I do have a suggestion. Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo. Maybe not exactly a chase movie, but many classic cars appear in that film.
Gumball Rally is one of my favorite movies 🎦 and inspires me to drive across the country
Gumball rally has always been my favorite cross country race. If you look they didn't fake the speedometer shots!!
Amazingly beautiful 😻 you even put Mad Max number 1 thank you from south Australia 🇦🇺, the mad max car was near my house at Heatfield at Evans car wreck for few years under a car cover seating in the front lawn luckily Evans never had the courage to wreck it , eventually got taken to Birdwood museum then to car shows around Australia then sold to Germany museum then last I heard the car got bought by an American 🇺🇸. All the best
I like how u added the movie mistakes.
Wow, I saw almost all of these movies first run, I was 18 in 1971. Really liked Eat My Dust. In some of the scenes the camera was mounted low in the grill and I actually felt the car moving in my stomach. Never experienced anything like it again.
I'm impressed. You did a good job with this video.
LOVE both of them! Thanks!
Out of *thousands* of nice KZhead channels that I know, this is one of the most intelligent ones. ♥ And I feel so lucky that you apply your view&style to topics such as 1980s fads. Looking forward to binge-watching your other videos and seeing your fanbase grow in the future!
Thank you so much for the great comment! Glad to know you enjoy watching our channel and content. We love creating interesting videos that keep our fans coming back for more !!
1st! Great Video. In Gumball Rally, Raul Julia and Michael Sarrazin look like they could be twins.
I loved it when Raul Julia snatched the rear view mirror off the Ferrari and states"The first rule of Italian driving is whats behind is not important." Popular Mechanic Magazine did a review of the movie and the cars and stated that the sounds of the engines were created by putting the movie cars on dynos and recording the engines at speed.
@@jameswest9261 I still use Franco's line about the rearview mirror...lol
The Gumball Rally was a better Cannonball Run movie than The Cannonball Run.
I haven't seen the movie in a long time but I thought that was Raul Julia after seeing his video.
@@mtrich8113 It is.
Hi there. Great video here. But I still don't know why in this kind of videos allways forget the 40 minutes of one of the most great car chase films of the 70's, I'm talking about GONE IN 60 SECONDS, with the fabulous yellow Ford Mustang 1973. The original Eleanor. My favourte. Anyway. Greetings form México City.
They covered that film in the 1st video of this series. This is the 2nd video of the series.
Loved it:) Thanks Bunches:)
Fantastic list.
Nice video! WAsn't all the typical car movies and you had nice detail about the cars, thanks!
Attention to detail and getting them correct like name in the cars and the years and so forth, shows through in the quality of your production of this episode. I watched part one and two back-to-back quite interesting. By the way I'm part 1 the lady looked like she needed a hairpiece up in front on the 1st I think is mad Max
I love watching the older movies just to see all of the bloopers lol...When I's a kid and a teen I'd see em alot cause I knew the difference between Ford Chevy and Dodge, cause they'd crash em and the next scene they didn't have a scratch on em lol...I've also watched a Ford roll over and a Chevy would flop on its wheels and keep going. Ya gotta love the 60s and 70s movies cause they didn't have the technology that they have in 2days movies and depending how much you'd be interested in the movie, not being a car guy you'd never notice the changes they made lol
excellent work and comment. thank you.
Very cool video and a thumbs up.
Max running Toe Cutter into and under the 18 wheeler was movie gold! They brought that actor back in the latest version, but no Mel? WT.....
More, more, MORE, MORE!!!
More please!
I remember all these movies from the drive-in ,good movie watching and I miss the drive-in.
Keep up all good work
Gumball rally was my favorite movie as a kid. I still fantasize about cross country race.
Awesome!!!
If I had to pick 3 cars as favorites; 1. 55 chevy 2 lane blacktop 2. 70 GTO Judge 2 lane blacktop 3. 72 Camaro gumball rally Also, I understand there are much better cars in these films like the Ferrari Daytona and Cobra, but these 3 just happen to be my favorite cars.
Same 55 Chevy was used in American Graffiti
@@raygronemann8555 yup..
Good stuff. Makes me nostalgic for the days of childhood and my Knight Rider Big Wheel. That being said, they sure did waste a lot of great cars that would be nice to have today.
Excellent
Cool recap / rundown.
I saw many of those films at the drive-in the way they were intended.
Huge car chase fan
Ha, Gumball Rally and Cannonball Run gave me aspirations as a kid to race across the USA too after I grew up. Now I wanna see them again. Also, thanks for showing the movie posters. I miss how movie posters used to be based on the story or concept (very artistically, in some cases) rather than the actors in the movie.
Here's a fun fact you'll enjoy, the ambulance that Burt Reynolds and Dom Delouise drive in The Cannonball Run is the very same ambulance that Hal Needham (who has a cameo as one of the EMT's in it) is the very same one Needham ran in the 1979 Cannonball race.
Honorable mention to C'etait un Rendezvous by Claude Lelouch. It's not strictly a chase film, but it's still very much worth watching.
I grew up with movies!!! They're awesome and no computer faking!!
Super 😊
Fun to watch those stunts.
Barry Newman had already done Vanishing Point the year before
Two Lane Blacktop, one of my all time favorites.
Saw it when it came out.. along with the other movies..I own the criterion set of two lane Blacktop... love hearing that ol' rock crusher growl..
I really enjoy 70’s car chases.
Ok, sure, yeah.....many low budget car chase films. But nothing beats the cars of the 70's !
Will there be a part 3 ?
Great films when things were real 👍👍🇬🇧
I was impressed you pointed out the Fiat 850 spider. I have 4...
Two Lane Blacktop is a must see to every chevy enthusiast in the world
My dad took me to watch Gumball Rally and the original Gone In 60 Seconds when i was only six years old and they brought on a life long obsession with movies,especially ones with car chases. Now I’m slowly collecting as many as humanly possible. H.B.Halicki in my eyes is the greatest ever maker of movies in that genre..he even paid the ultimate price while making a sequel to his magnum opus Gone In 60 Seconds. I own quite a few as of this moment which included the obvious. From Gumball to Baby Driver and many Inbetween like Smokey And The Bandit,Cannonball Run,Vanishing Point and Bullet.
I bet somebody is regretting using that 427 Cobra in Gumball Rally. I don't think they had kit cars like that back then. They probably junked it after filming.
Found out one thing, I have some movies to watch. This era and before were the best, as the narrarator said, before CGI.
Very glad Mad Max was, fittingly, rated @ number 1. If EVER a film could be called a cult classic, it is Mad Max. My favorite character in the film was killed off early: The Night Rider LOL.
Great watch..... I went to a screening with Steve Bisley as a special guest.. Me and another bloke wore black leather(MFP style) and he gave us each a bottle of wine !
Kick it in the guts Barry, (translation) Start the engine Barry.
That 55 was the same 55 used in American Graffiti and it was sold through Hot Rod Magazine a few years later
I remember Harrison's Ford's 55 Chev and Milner's Yellow T-Bucket for sale in Canadian Old Car Auto Trader for $20,000 back in the late 70s. Mind you, $20,000 was a heck of a lot of cash back in the late 70s.
Mad Max is really the Suppergood no 1
Many of these movies where cheap but cool, with really cool cars... I have noticed that most modern movies, who try to do something similar, just ends with the airbags popping. Which is good for the charchters, but kinda look silly in a movie..... Just watched "Eat my dust". Nice!
Magnifique 👍🙏
A little Mad Max tidbit - the Mazda Bongo van (pre-crash) was owned by the director, George Miller. The one that was crashed was an engineless hulk from a wrecking yard, painted to match Miller's van.
When the cars, were the stars.
Eat My Dust gets my vote for best shorts on a leading actress lol
This is the second time I have seen a super charger on a motor that was non functional. In the opening scenes of the series, "The Monkeys" that Pontiac convertible, that they cut the roof off of, and put that Weiand on top of the carburetor.
In their defense, fake blowers were a thing on the street scene in the 70s. 😁 I think I read somewhere that the original (1st attempt) Monkeemobile had a solid rear suspension, but it proved pretty much undriveable.
I heard one of the guys in the band almost wrecked it to much horsepower they detuned it to make it more driveable
The other '55 from Two Lane Blacktop is now owned by the same person who owns the yellow coupe from American Graff itti.
Interesting....😊
In the original version of "The Getaway" of 1972 is possible to see the cameraman next to the stuntman,but in the digital restoring this is deleted. I've the version in DVD and this particular does not appear.
This list was easier on my wallet than the first one! I already owned 7 of these! I only had to buy 3 of them!
The Holden HQ that swings round the truck near the beginning of Madmax was powered by a JATO rocket. You can see it still burning in your clip. Good show.
Stuntman Mike had his work cut out for him
Double Nickels looks like a made for TV movie.
That Gumball Rally motorcycle stuntman got absolutely throttled and then slammed when he went through the sign. Ouch!
Cool cars of the time, cool cars of all time.
All great movies for there day 👍🇦🇺
It is soooo frustrating that some of these films cannot be watched on any streaming platform. One example is Two Lane Blacktop - it's only available on old fashioned 20th century physical dvd / blu-ray disks.
MAD MAX Will always be number 1 Great vid 👍👍👍
At least, I learn something from the "Gumball Rally" movie, the blonde girl was Linda Vaughn ! I never pay attention to it !
What I learned from the "Gumball Rally" movie was the first rule of Italian racing,"Whats a behind me, is a not important.".
Great movies that leaves you feeling human and natural.
me and my dad almost bought a sterling gt kit car when i was 14 - 15. if i remember correctly the guy wanted like 1500-2500 for it. this was back in early 2000s and the car had electrical problems among some other issues and was sitting outside with the top off for years. so we didnt buy it. but i think about that car a LOT.
Ok I plan on doing some 1970's James bond car chases.
"Freebie and. the Bean" had some awesome chase scenes.
This list should be required watching for all kids in middle school
My favorite is thunder and lighting
Loved 2 lane blacktop I want that 55 chevy
I was only 19 and 1979. but almost walked out of the movie theater laughing after seeing the non-functional supercharger on the interceptor.
Even back then most car guys knew that cars did not explode upon impact.
2 lane is a cult classic. Sooo good.
350👍's up thanks for sharing
Movie Stuntmen have always been my Super Hero's..
Getaway was outstanding