The Granville was a 455 4 barell duel exhaust with standard bias ply H78 15 tires, Ventura, PONTIAC 350 2 barell Had factory duel exhaust, interior gutted foam rubber pading, plexiglass windshield and windshield pillars were cut at the dash so the roof would peal back. Pontiac supplied the cars for this movie and the 71 Le Mans in the French Connection. The final accident with the Ventura was staged on the Tachonic Pkwy. Millwood N.Y. exit ramp. In 73-75 I was the Yard manager for Saw Mill Auto Wreckers Yonkers NY. These cars were hauled in to be scrapped ! OH, I bought the Ventura engine and trans for my 66 Le Mans daily driver.. Little bit of History for you guys LOL
All the granvill's had 4555 4bbl. and duel exhaust. The down scaled Bonneville had 455 2bbl single exhaust. had 2 order duels unless opted for 4 bbl, then again duels included
The Ventura also has the somewhat unusual (for X-bodies) F-41 suspension option . Giveaway is the rear sway bar. The option also included a larger front bar, stiffer springs and shocks.
Watched it in 1977 in my uncle's basement in Toronto. I was 16 then and was overwhelmed by the plethora of local tv channels and the ones from Buffalo and Rochester NY that played almost 24/24 crime movies tv shows etc. This one in particular along with the Getaway made so huge impression on me that i still get goosebumps by just hearing or reading the title.
This era will never be topped. The cars are not plastic, they sound like cars should sound, no annoying theme music for the background, just the sound of what a car chase should be. Awesome.
Like all movie chase scenes, the engine noises and other sounds you hear were sourced from other recordings and dubbed in later during the post production process. The sounds you hear in the movie were not made made by the vehicles on the screen.
@@ronbrock6153 I noticed that too. But there's something special about not using any CGI. Someday, someone will try to make a movie in the future with no CGI. This part of the film must have cost a lot of money - shutting down all those streets.
Hey Rob, Hickman, Lynch and Schieder were so good in this! I’m a big Bill Hickman fan what a storied life that man had. One of the saddest days of Bill’s life was when He was following his good friend James Dean when Dean and his Spyder collided with Donald Turnupseed. Hickman about 60 seconds behind Dean was the first to get to Dean before he died. Hickman held Dean in his arms at the crash as he died.
One of those gritty,1970's car chases that I would end up recreating on the living room floor with my Matchbox cars.... This gets me more excited than any Fast & Furious movie ever did!
HAHA! I used to do the same thing! I didn't have very many Hot Wheels or Matchbox cars, but I would recreate whatever I saw in movies on TV. I remember wanting a Mustang so bad for recreating the Bullitt chase. I would build big humps in the floor using my Highlights books and dictionaries and then ramp the cars off of those humps to simulate the huge jumps on the San Francisco streets in Bullitt. LOL Aaaaaahhhhh......good times.
As a professional stunt driver, Bill Hickman knew and understood the kinds of punishment that a car could take and still keep going. And he used that knowledge to great effect. He really rocked it.
Yeah, Nobody could whip those front heavy, non braking, non handling 70s sleds around the corners like him. Incredible control, these"drifting" guys can't hold a candle to him.
***** He sure did, and he was an amazing looking guy (by that I mean interesting) I bet he could tell you some stories, he also looked like a guy you wouldnt want to tick off.
It's pretty remarkable that this gentleman, the late Bill Hickman, was the principal driver in this as well as Bullitt and The French Connection, three of the most remarkable and iconic chase sequences ever filmed. Quite a legacy for a profession (Stunt man) that is all too often an anonymous one. Also, bearing in mind, that this was before digital editing made this sort of thing a hell of a lot easier to do. Incredible risks were taken to produce these classic scenes.
He had more than 100 other roles as well, including General Patton's driver in "Patton"...In real life he was the first on the scene of James Dean's fatal car wreck...
This, The French Connection, and Bullitt contain IMO 3 of the greatest chase scenes ever filmed, past or present. No stupid music tracks, no gratuitous effects and over cutting, just great action and great natural sound.
There were two elements that made this particular car chase stand out from many other chases. 1. The "bad guy" in the passenger seat (played by Richard Lynch, RIP), appears to be getting stressed by their drive through certain parts of the city, including passing through a group of kids playing in a side road. Generally, bad guys are portrayed as single-minded and uncaring, obviously Lynch's character wasn't quite so much the automaton. 2. At the conclusion of the chase, Roy Scheider's character looked like he had been in an accident, unlike the stereotypical good guy survives without even a scratch. It's too bad that the movie industry lost two great actors such as these, especially in light of how the public has been fed crap acting the past decade or so.
This car chase pushed the art to another level..Except for The Driver, i have both. Though this always did it for me. And Bill Hickman haulin that Grand ville......
Lynch wasn’t faking it - he really was scared during the chase scenes. The crash at the end wasn’t supposed to happen; Buddy (Roy Scheider) was supposed to slam to a stop short of the truck. But the stunt went wrong and the car plowed under the bumper. The scene with the driver helping a battered Buddy out of the wrecked car was in essence improvised.
I argued with someone once how much better the Bullitt car chase was than some dumb Star Wars cgi pod race thing they thought was so great. They just don't understand.
+Vedran Čižić Hickman also did the driving in the French Connection. Also was driving the trailer for James Dean's Porsche when he crashed it back in the 50s.
+hamtrak I thought it was him- same guy driving the charger in Bullit, right? that guy seriously kicked ass as a stunt driver, especially with those big old boats they drove back then
+hamtrak I'm not surprised, Bill Hickman was a great, maybe the greatest ever, stunt driver but he also rather appears to have been a complete lunatic who really enjoyed scaring the pants off actors. Maybe it was a way of getting revenge for his relative lack of success as an actor. Maybe it was just that he favoured the realistic, gritty, white knuckle style of car scenes...
LMFAO!!!!My favorite all time villan,..Richard Lynch (RIP)was visibly terrified as the chase begins....he's not acting there!!! Awesome camera work,...n like the man says,NO CGI.
The Seven Ups is basically a really good sequel to the really great French Connection. Totally awesome and intense. Like one of cinemas best and longest and loudest car chases (arguably number one) that hardly if ever makes anyones best car chase lists. Like for some mysterious reasons unknown. Pathetically nowadays movie car chases will be mostly filmed fake on computer screens.
Classic car chases from shows and movies of the 1960s and 1970s are real and can't be beat vs today's Photoshop-editing and special effects chases. Another nice thing about those classics is they were used with true American cars. I can watch videos like this over and over again vs the latest Fast And Furious.
This was my favourite car chase scene of all time, I just loved the way how the cars just let you hear the engine roar, and not forgetting the legendary stunt driver Bill Hickman who made car chases, tense and exciting in the movies that featured car chases he was in, this scene and car chase was a great example of that. Along with a few others. The seven ups is rated up with Bullit, The French Connection, MCQ, To Live and Die in LA, and Ronnin. And R.I.P to both actors..🙏🏾.
As is common in movie making for several reasons, the engine noises and other sounds were dubbed in during post production and were not made by the vehicles on the screen. During outside filming, sound is generally not recorded at all at the time of filming, or if it is recorded, it's nothing but ambient street noises and many times includes shouted directions and off camera chatter from crewmembers who know it's all going to be dubbed over anyway. They really didn't even do a very good job of making the sounds plausibly match what's on the screen, such as was mentioned already, all of the dramatic gear shifting noises supposedly made by an obvious automatic transmission vehicle. In real life, 18 wheelers don't even shift that much.
Bad guy with a shotgun disassembles a hood from a 1970s car. Hahaha! I love it! This takes me back to the era of the all time best car chase scenes! Great movie!
+Patrick Keough Yep. Post fuel crisis cars like these, big blocks or not made next to no power. They last forever though, the internals were way overbuilt for the utter lack of compression they had.
You see how fast the door of that red car ricocheted after the crash? It was like a ballistic missile. Unless they had it on a tow wire so it wouldn't kill someone outside the scene (this was a live street chase)
EXCELLENT! I always thought Roy Scheider was awesome and this was another role he played that proved it. I hadn't seen this movie for many years. It is an excellent movie. Those cars really were hauling you-know-what and they didn't use effects to make them look like they were. This is when REAL stunts were done and not the crap like you see in the Fast and Furious movies. This chase keeps you on the edge of your seat. Thanks for posting!
Al Scarbrough Definitely 52 Pick Up was ONE of my favorite movies that he did with Ann Margaret which was a SLEEPER movie aside from the great one s like this n the French Connection
They used to use Pontiacs in a lot of car chase scenes. My dad told me it was because they smashed real well lol. And this is what happens when you get into a shoving match with a '73 GrandVille by the way. Why on earth...
Jack Johnson Maybe, I'm not really good on the particular year that car was, same with 68-72 novas, the differences are so subtle. Easily figured out on google though.
I saw this movie when I was a kid in the 80's on tv and thought the car chase was cool as hell. This movie got me hooked. Always loved car chases in movies after seeing this movie.
I love the expressions the killer wearing the ski cap puts on during this scene. Here's a ruthless cop-shooter but he's scared to death of Hickman's driver. I always thought this scene was an homage to the "Bullitt" scene with some comedy thrown in. Roy Scheider's expressions are great too.
Bill Hickman was the best stunt driver and stunt coordinator in movies. He did the driving and set-ups in 'Bullit', 'The Seven-ups' and 'The French Connection'. I never get tired of watching the chase scenes in all three of these movies.
As A lifelong NYer I was always amazed at these Manhattan chases they never get stuck in traffic behined 2 busses, navagate around bicycles and dog walkers not to mention the pedestrians. Man it always takes me a half hour to go down park ave.
1973 Pontiac Venturas with the the stock 350 4 barrel were fast cars. Not many people know about them. They fell between the cracks during that horsepower crunch of the seventies. Definitely a sleeper if there ever was one.
Like the Blues Brothers said, no catalytic converters and emission control to choke the performance. At the peak of muscle cars, Chrysler and GM often underrated their engine (probably for lower insurance premium for their customers) its ironic now some of the automakers overrated the engine horsepower for marketing purpose.
Yep, they all did it for lower insurance premiums, but I know the various GM divisions also did it because GM had certain rules about how much HP a car could have compared to its weight. A GTO with a 400 would be rated at 365 HP, while the exact same engine in a Firebird would be rated at 320 HP.
I'm one of the lucky ones , meaning an old dude. I had a 64 1/2 Mustang (6cyl 3 speed but still), a 73 Nova 307 like this 74 Ventura but blue, a 56 Belair 2 door post, a blue 62 Galaxie, a white 66 Lemans (because it looked like a GTO but cheaper), a 67 Biscayne and a 70 Impala...all before I was 22 in 1978. Those were the days man. I wouldn't trade those memories for another 10 years of life.
I worked for a pontiac dealer 68-72. Needed a tow car for my 66 GTO , ordered a 71 Le Mans Wagon 455 H.O. . Pontiac did not want to build the car. Zone rep made a special order 7 months later I got it. Only 455 HO wagon built... I still have the wagon and 66GTO
How could I forget?? At 1:38 you'll see a quick shot of a 64 Malibu, I had one in 1974 as my first legal car that was a 6 with 3 on the tree and my old 65 Catalina teal 4 door boat with the Marijuana decal on the back glass I had in 1976. How I never got stopped was a miracle. That car rode as smooth as my 78 Eldorado I had in 1997.
2:22 watch that big ol' Pontiac bouncy bouncy bouncy! And watch for the recurring Pinto as well. Roy Scheider, RIP dude. You were so good in everything you did.
This car chase sequence is almost similiar in fashion from the one of Bullit's. One guy in a small car the good guy, the bad guys, 2, in a bigger car, chase starts out slow in a city and then climatic ending happens out in a open freeway. Both chase sequences fun to watch. For me I like Bullit's chase sequence better to be honest, but I like this one as well.
I just looked up the curb weights on these cars. The 4 door sedan has almost 1600 lbs on the Ventura. I was shocked to read how light the Ventura/Novas we’re back then. Almost as light as my Camry
Everyday, prior to leaving for work, I watch this scene for inspiration. Then it's off we go! Life imitating art. The only problem is when I get to work the car is a complete total. This necessitates procuring a new automobile every following day. It's an expensive habit but the buzz is so wonderful that the day flies by, and before you know it 5:00 rolls around. I take the bus home in the evening and start planning for the next day's morning drive.
That was INCREDIBLE! I need to watch this full movie; looks like it has a French Connection vibe to it. I also love that there was no music, just the sound of the engine and wheels spinning and hubcaps rattling on the pavement. That got my heart rate up, wow!
I love that at 5:40 you can see another camera crew getting the shot for the next cut as the cars are actively sliding and bouncing in their direction. These stunts were no joke!
Roy Scheider pounding on the steering wheel after they blast through the police barrier made me laugh. Love the frustration he exhibits in just that one bit.
Awesome car chase! Anyone notice that Schieder's Pontiac Ventura uses the same engine noise as McQueen's 68 Mustang from Bullitt? Well there is a reason, the producer of this film worked on Bullitt as well as French Connection, so he just recycled the enigine noise, that's pretty common though with some films made by the same people.
***** I think you're mistaken, too. You hear manual gearchanges being made in the chase car, but wasn't it an automatic? It's the same Bullitt Mustang engine soundtrack.
***** I'm sorry but what you have to see is is that you never and I mean never hear the 390 in the mustang because the engine noise was dubbed during editing and production and you can find it on commentary by peter Yates on the bullitt from Walmart (from 5.00 $) now the same thing happened in the 7 ups. I also love classic movies like I love classic cars so I study them both very carefully and that is how I know it was dubbed.Peter Yates said it was dubbed from a car race at the track.Another fragment of proof is that I heard the same dub of the bullitt mustang on a episode of the dukes of hazard when they where at a track and a guy was driving a white dodge charged.Same dub. You might be able to find the dukes of hazard white charger scene on CZcams. The name of the video is: The dukes of hazard S 2 e 07 scene 02. By TV stunter UK look at it for yourself
Fun fact: the scene where Scheider's car smashes into the back of the truck shearing off most of the top portion of the car was Hickman's "homage" to the death of Jayne Mansfield.
Jaws was such an impact on me when I was a child for obvious reasons. Ever since then, swimming in the ocean near Old Orchard Beach, ME & Old Saybrook, CT when visiting family, I became a supporter of Roy Scheider. I was 7 yrs old when Jaws came out in 1975 and therefore his subsequent movies (Jaws 2, Blue Thunder, 2010 The Year We Make Contact, just to name a few) are among some of my “Most Favourite Movies” list. R.I.P., Roy Scheider, November 10 1932 to February 10 2008. Thank you for all the great memories. ❤❤❤
Thanks for the upload man.. My dad showed me this film over my winter break, and I fell in love. This and Bullitt are in a close tie for best car chase scene ever, in my book.
The shot where Roy Scheider makes the turn onto the block with all the school kids playing in the street was filmed right in front of the building where I grew up. I vaguely remember the production rolling in. Fun to see and revisit.
The 10 minutes of this film is better than the last 20 years of the Fast and the Furious.
You again Lol 😂
Agreed. I don't think the last 20 years of the F &F franchise combined had 10 minutes of real, actual stunt driving.
LMFAO! Dude you nailed it, damn did you ever nail it brother!
@@nicholasstathoulopoulos4744 you do realise fast and furious isn't about stunt driving?
@@Gregory-sm9pf Yeah, I figured that out after about three of them.
The Granville was a 455 4 barell duel exhaust with standard bias ply H78 15 tires, Ventura, PONTIAC 350 2 barell Had factory duel exhaust, interior gutted foam rubber pading, plexiglass windshield and windshield pillars were cut at the dash so the roof would peal back. Pontiac supplied the cars for this movie and the 71 Le Mans in the French Connection. The final accident with the Ventura was staged on the Tachonic Pkwy. Millwood N.Y. exit ramp. In 73-75 I was the Yard manager for Saw Mill Auto Wreckers Yonkers NY. These cars were hauled in to be scrapped ! OH, I bought the Ventura engine and trans for my 66 Le Mans daily driver.. Little bit of History for you guys LOL
Was it still warm from the chase?
LOL
I only saw one tailpipe on the GV
All the granvill's had 4555 4bbl. and duel exhaust. The down scaled Bonneville had 455 2bbl single exhaust. had 2 order duels unless opted for 4 bbl, then again duels included
The Ventura also has the somewhat unusual (for X-bodies) F-41 suspension option . Giveaway is the rear sway bar. The option also included a larger front bar, stiffer springs and shocks.
Love it when they don’t have music blaring over a chase scene, just the sound of the engines
Funniest part: Well-dressed middle class people on an interstate bus...😆
Yup
In new york, everyone used public transport. There was always too much traffic
Just like "Bullitt" and "The French Connection". Who needs music when you have those gorgeous engines revving like an angry pack of wolves?
@@fenris6051 Well, the first three minutes have jazz-like music, but as soon as the cars speed up and the chase is really on, the music stops playing.
50 years ago, and this movie still rocks.
Watched it in 1977 in my uncle's basement in Toronto. I was 16 then and was overwhelmed by the plethora of local tv channels and the ones from Buffalo and Rochester NY that played almost 24/24 crime movies tv shows etc. This one in particular along with the Getaway made so huge impression on me that i still get goosebumps by just hearing or reading the title.
This era will never be topped. The cars are not plastic, they sound like cars should sound, no annoying theme music for the background, just the sound of what a car chase should be. Awesome.
This is real American made super chase 1970
It was the golden age of movies, in my opinion.
Like all movie chase scenes, the engine noises and other sounds you hear were sourced from other recordings and dubbed in later during the post production process. The sounds you hear in the movie were not made made by the vehicles on the screen.
And this is how Chief Brody ended up being booted out of the NYPD and sent off to become Chief of Police in a small seaside town...
He didn't have time to pack either because what he's wearing here is the same thing he wore on the boat minus the jacket !
@@shihanUKS He's going to need a bigger suitcase...
and how the other driver got the gig in Bullit
I know that he was from New York
"In the yahd not to fah from the cah" lol
No CGI. No Green Screen. Classic 70s car chase. Brilliant stuff!
Well you do have to admit to the obvious running the film at 1.5 or 2x speed very obvious about 5:36 mark.
@@ronbrock6153 I noticed that too. But there's something special about not using any CGI. Someday, someone will try to make a movie in the future with no CGI. This part of the film must have cost a lot of money - shutting down all those streets.
May Bill Hickman, Richard Lynch, and Roy Schieder Rest In Peace. Certainly, they are three legends that will be missed.
Bill Hickman was one of the best stunt drivers ever....
@@bloodgod3281, Oh hell yeah he was the man.👍
Hey Rob, Hickman, Lynch and Schieder were so good in this! I’m a big Bill Hickman fan what a storied life that man had. One of the saddest days of Bill’s life was when He was following his good friend James Dean when Dean and his Spyder collided with Donald Turnupseed. Hickman about 60 seconds behind Dean was the first to get to Dean before he died. Hickman held Dean in his arms at the crash as he died.
Certain engine sounds felt like they were lifted from Bullitt
@@alexday5892I heard stories to that effect.
One of the best chases of all time. No crap music, no CGI!
What about those epic 70s cop car chase themes?
Baby driver did music well though. It can be done right.
Not sure which is better: This or Bullitt?
It's decent, but it goes on way too long and gets repetitive before the end. Bullitt and French Connection are far, far better.
Not one of the best, THE BEST!!!!! In my humble opinion
One of those gritty,1970's car chases that I would end up recreating on the living room floor with my Matchbox cars....
This gets me more excited than any Fast & Furious movie ever did!
HAHA! I used to do the same thing! I didn't have very many Hot Wheels or Matchbox cars, but I would recreate whatever I saw in movies on TV. I remember wanting a Mustang so bad for recreating the Bullitt chase. I would build big humps in the floor using my Highlights books and dictionaries and then ramp the cars off of those humps to simulate the huge jumps on the San Francisco streets in Bullitt. LOL Aaaaaahhhhh......good times.
John Martin Jr I AGREE bro them movies got me hotwheeled out with my own sound effects hahaha
Lets face it! Fast and Furious movies can't match the good ole 70,s chases.
No CGI in this one
Same here!!
I love the way Bill Hickman calmly looks as though he's on his daily commute. The mark of a true professional.
Yeah, he acts as though he's been through it all before. LOL!!
He is at that , very good .
Drove the same way in Bullitt except when he was about to get in that head on..this chase seen sponsored by Pontiac. 😊
As a professional stunt driver, Bill Hickman knew and understood the kinds of punishment that a car could take and still keep going. And he used that knowledge to great effect. He really rocked it.
He is on his daily commute.
Bill Hickman will always be the best car chase driver for all of eternity....
Bar none!
Yeah, Nobody could whip those front heavy, non braking, non handling 70s sleds around the corners like him. Incredible control, these"drifting" guys can't hold a candle to him.
@@TheDKServices🎯
They don't make movies like that anymore, and they never will again. It was a golden age.
The late Bill Hickman coordinated the chase plus he drove the black Pontiac he also drove the black Charger in Bullitt. Helluva driver!
***** He sure did, and he was an amazing looking guy (by that I mean interesting) I bet he could tell you some stories, he also looked like a guy you wouldnt want to tick off.
lol thought I was having some misplaced deja vu- big difference in the looks of the character in only 3 yrs after Bullitt
OK I thought bullitt came out in '70
Bill Hickam is also the stunt coordinator for the French Connection
Global Indefinitely Thanks, I did not know that.
It's pretty remarkable that this gentleman, the late Bill Hickman, was the principal driver in this as well as Bullitt and The French Connection, three of the most remarkable and iconic chase sequences ever filmed. Quite a legacy for a profession (Stunt man) that is all too often an anonymous one. Also, bearing in mind, that this was before digital editing made this sort of thing a hell of a lot easier to do. Incredible risks were taken to produce these classic scenes.
He was a legend during what I like to call the Golden Age of movies.
He had more than 100 other roles as well, including General Patton's driver in "Patton"...In real life he was the first on the scene of James Dean's fatal car wreck...
Not just driving, but choreographed them all as well.
Forgot to add Jerry Summers who drove Scheider's car. Who also has passed.
The common denominator was Phil D'Antoni.Phil did all three movies you mentioned.He used Hickman exclusively.
Awesome chase scene! The late Roy Scheider was so good at playing these gritty blue-collar types. VERY underrated actor.
Evan T easily one of the greatest of all time.
Great actor
He looked the part....like a cop.
As a kid in the seventies this was for me a great chase scene, I use to recreate it with my matchbox cars. Rip Roy.🤓
This, The French Connection, and Bullitt contain IMO 3 of the greatest chase scenes ever filmed, past or present. No stupid music tracks, no gratuitous effects and over cutting, just great action and great natural sound.
In my opinion Vanishing Point has the most phenomenal car chase.
What is amazing about all three movies is that stuntman Bill Hickman was driving.
@@jayelbee1111 He was, but for some scenes Gene was actually driving the car too, Gene wasn't a stuntman but he was a damn good driver
Bullitt is better without speeding up, there are pure realtime corner passing. But this one is much longer.
Try "to live and die in LA" that's another good one. No CGI, just real cars.
Love this chase. Everything about it. Bill Hickman as the villain. 1973 NYC. The cars. Everything.
1973 was o.k. so long as it was being experienced on t.v..
Greatest chase scene , Ever.
@Jason Kang I could not agree more. The Bleak Autumn backdrop helps.
Bill will ALWAYS be a legend as one of the first,greatest stunt drivers in my book....
@@boruff68 Yes sir. He was the best!
Driving the wrong way down one way streets, on sidewalks...I love it! This was almost 50 years ago...and it's still the best.
Roy Scheider was a hell of a good actor.....enjoyed all his movies...RIP
There were two elements that made this particular car chase stand out from many other chases.
1. The "bad guy" in the passenger seat (played by Richard Lynch, RIP), appears to be getting stressed by their drive through certain parts of the city, including passing through a group of kids playing in a side road.
Generally, bad guys are portrayed as single-minded and uncaring, obviously Lynch's character wasn't quite so much the automaton.
2. At the conclusion of the chase, Roy Scheider's character looked like he had been in an accident, unlike the stereotypical good guy survives without even a scratch.
It's too bad that the movie industry lost two great actors such as these, especially in light of how the public has been fed crap acting the past decade or so.
I totally agree! They feel sort of like real people driving instead of your stereotypical tough guys
Fully agreed spot on 👌✔️
This car chase pushed the art to another level..Except for The Driver, i have both. Though this always did it for me. And Bill Hickman haulin that Grand ville......
Lynch wasn’t faking it - he really was scared during the chase scenes.
The crash at the end wasn’t supposed to happen; Buddy (Roy Scheider) was supposed to slam to a stop short of the truck. But the stunt went wrong and the car plowed under the bumper. The scene with the driver helping a battered Buddy out of the wrecked car was in essence improvised.
I argued with someone once how much better the Bullitt car chase was than some dumb Star Wars cgi pod race thing they thought was so great. They just don't understand.
Actor Richard lynch's reactions were real as he was terrified riding with stunt driver Bill Hickman.
+Vedran Čižić Hickman also did the driving in the French Connection. Also was driving the trailer for James Dean's Porsche when he crashed it back in the 50s.
+hamtrak RIP RICHARD LYNCH AND BILL HICKMAN AND ROY SCHIDER
+hamtrak I thought it was him- same guy driving the charger in Bullit, right? that guy seriously kicked ass as a stunt driver, especially with those big old boats they drove back then
haha that looked to be true ... what a long scary ride!!! the dangers actors went through then wow?
+hamtrak I'm not surprised, Bill Hickman was a great, maybe the greatest ever, stunt driver but he also rather appears to have been a complete lunatic who really enjoyed scaring the pants off actors. Maybe it was a way of getting revenge for his relative lack of success as an actor. Maybe it was just that he favoured the realistic, gritty, white knuckle style of car scenes...
Wife is all, "why do you like all those 70's films?" This right here, baby. Unparalleled car action.
Bull Hickman the calmest and most relaxed get away driver on earth. Legendary driver.
RIP Roy Schieder, Richard Lynch and Bill Hickman. 3 legends, will be missed!!
Gene Hackman is still alive he's just retired.
@@kevinclark8549 Hickman not Hackman !
for sure !
JAWS,audio is a nighttime favorite
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Wrong movie.
Chao.
Retired Vietnam era veteran, ex Detroiter, expatriate currently living in the Colombian Andes.
"This movie brought to you by Pontiac."
Nice chase scene!!
Yup this particular Indian can flat haul ass!!! Lol!!
LMFAO!!!!My favorite all time villan,..Richard Lynch (RIP)was visibly terrified as the chase begins....he's not acting there!!! Awesome camera work,...n like the man says,NO CGI.
The Seven Ups is basically a really good sequel to the really great French Connection. Totally awesome and intense. Like one of cinemas best and longest and loudest car chases (arguably number one) that hardly if ever makes anyones best car chase lists. Like for some mysterious reasons unknown. Pathetically nowadays movie car chases will be mostly filmed fake on computer screens.
Roy Schieder never really received as much recognition as he deserved as an actor. And this car chase, IMO, kicks the shit out of the one in Bullitt.
by far the greatest car chase ever filmed. period!! No cgi can replace a REAL car chase!
I remember watching this chase with my Dad years ago, and him saying "Damn, his (Scheider) Pontiac sounds bad ass!" It still does.
It sound a bit too much like McQueen's fastback in Bullitt. I love it!
48 years later, I still love the sound of that 1971 Pontiac Ventura.
1973/74
It was dubbed in and it sounds like from the Bullitt Mustang.
The facial expressions on the passenger in this scene are priceless...
+paktype : LoL .. I was just thinking the same thing.. reminds me of the look on my chicks face whenever she tells me we're running late!
Because he was driving with the stuntman during the car chase and he was actually freaking out.
Those big Pontiacs could cover some asphalt.
Even when they were parked.
Classic car chases from shows and movies of the 1960s and 1970s are real and can't be beat vs today's Photoshop-editing and special effects chases. Another nice thing about those classics is they were used with true American cars. I can watch videos like this over and over again vs the latest Fast And Furious.
From 9:55, just a masterful portrayal of a person in shock. Scheider was underrated.
A fitting tribute to 3 fine performers: Bill Hickman, Roy Schieder and Richard Lynch. Thanks, for the performances.
Richard Lynch reactions while riding shotgun with Bill Hickman are priceless.
I hope Lynch got paid extra!
This was my favourite car chase scene of all time, I just loved the way how the cars just let you hear the engine roar, and not forgetting the legendary stunt driver Bill Hickman who made car chases, tense and exciting in the movies that featured car chases he was in, this scene and car chase was a great example of that. Along with a few others. The seven ups is rated up with Bullit, The French Connection, MCQ, To Live and Die in LA, and Ronnin. And R.I.P to both actors..🙏🏾.
What name is this film?
The engine sound of the Ventura is totally fake. They dubbed the sounds of a car with a manual trans, but the chase car had an automatic!
As is common in movie making for several reasons, the engine noises and other sounds were dubbed in during post production and were not made by the vehicles on the screen. During outside filming, sound is generally not recorded at all at the time of filming, or if it is recorded, it's nothing but ambient street noises and many times includes shouted directions and off camera chatter from crewmembers who know it's all going to be dubbed over anyway. They really didn't even do a very good job of making the sounds plausibly match what's on the screen, such as was mentioned already, all of the dramatic gear shifting noises supposedly made by an obvious automatic transmission vehicle. In real life, 18 wheelers don't even shift that much.
. Its also the same sounds used in "Bullitt".
Bad guy with a shotgun disassembles a hood from a 1970s car. Hahaha! I love it! This takes me back to the era of the all time best car chase scenes! Great movie!
What a awesome chase. Nearly 40 years old and probably one of the best ever.
Still legendary after NOW 50 years!!!
This is when cars were cars
good lord, they were awful. A bunch of under powered super heavy boats. With that being said, I am picking up a '71 Ventura on Monday.
+Patrick Keough Yep. Post fuel crisis cars like these, big blocks or not made next to no power. They last forever though, the internals were way overbuilt for the utter lack of compression they had.
Frank Alvira cars are plastic these fays
Frank Alvira before they were plastic
@@railwayhobo872 my 97 dodge neon was all plastic
my subie has some steel parts
This great car chase does a great job of documenting the look of nyc in the early 1970s 👍🏻👍🏻
I love how the windshield didn't magically get fixed.
Bill Hickman - Legend
I swear, my palms were sweating by the time this chase was half over. Incredible.
5:02 LOL The entire scene is great. Another EXCELLENT example of driving by our man Bill Hickman.
RIP He was sooo COOL!
Cancer sucks
You see how fast the door of that red car ricocheted after the crash? It was like a ballistic missile. Unless they had it on a tow wire so it wouldn't kill someone outside the scene (this was a live street chase)
It ricocheted of the back of the tan car, and in front of the tan car was a person
I love how not a word is said while the truck driver is getting roy out. Good detail
EXCELLENT! I always thought Roy Scheider was awesome and this was another role he played that proved it. I hadn't seen this movie for many years. It is an excellent movie. Those cars really were hauling you-know-what and they didn't use effects to make them look like they were. This is when REAL stunts were done and not the crap like you see in the Fast and Furious movies. This chase keeps you on the edge of your seat. Thanks for posting!
TRUE! VERY TRUE!
Al Scarbrough Roy looked the part when he was driving
Al Scarbrough Definitely 52 Pick Up was ONE of my favorite movies that he did with Ann Margaret which was a SLEEPER movie aside from the great one s like this n the French Connection
It's just down to earth no lousy camera tricks kick ass old school car chase!!
Back when Pontiac really did :"build excitement"!
I don't know dude. Take a look at how that thing bounces and hops when it corners. Looks like a pogo-stick!
They used to use Pontiacs in a lot of car chase scenes. My dad told me it was because they smashed real well lol. And this is what happens when you get into a shoving match with a '73 GrandVille by the way. Why on earth...
The excitement was over beginning in 73 ....for excitement see "gto 1964-1972"
+MrTheHillfolk wasn't that a 70 Pontiac Ventura
Jack Johnson
Maybe, I'm not really good on the particular year that car was, same with 68-72 novas, the differences are so subtle.
Easily figured out on google though.
Engine growl and gritty 1970’s action scenes make this an underrated cop film
I saw this movie when I was a kid in the 80's on tv and thought the car chase was cool as hell. This movie got me hooked. Always loved car chases in movies after seeing this movie.
no matter how many times I watch this chase scene it never gets old I love it.
I love the expressions the killer wearing the ski cap puts on during this scene. Here's a ruthless cop-shooter but he's scared to death of Hickman's driver. I always thought this scene was an homage to the "Bullitt" scene with some comedy thrown in. Roy Scheider's expressions are great too.
I love the way each car has its own "voice."
Yes i do too!
and screamin' tires coming off every corner.
Bill Hickman would be an awesome driver's ed teacher.
Ha haa haaa!
Yes but most snowflake guys today don't have licenses, they let there girlfriends drive them or they take Uber everywhere 😂
Bill Hickman was the best stunt driver and stunt coordinator in movies. He did the driving and set-ups in 'Bullit', 'The Seven-ups' and 'The French Connection'. I never get tired of watching the chase scenes in all three of these movies.
RIP Richard Lynch--his petrified reactions during this scene were priceless.
I will never forget how Roy Scheider looked when he came out of that crushed car!
As A lifelong NYer I was always amazed at these Manhattan chases they never get stuck in traffic behined 2 busses, navagate around bicycles and dog walkers not to mention the pedestrians. Man it always takes me a half hour to go down park ave.
1973 Pontiac Venturas with the the stock 350 4 barrel were fast cars. Not many people know about them. They fell between the cracks during that horsepower crunch of the seventies. Definitely a sleeper if there ever was one.
Like the Blues Brothers said, no catalytic converters and emission control to choke the performance. At the peak of muscle cars, Chrysler and GM often underrated their engine (probably for lower insurance premium for their customers) its ironic now some of the automakers overrated the engine horsepower for marketing purpose.
+james madison the '74 GTO was just a Ventura w/ the 400.
+Leslie Horwinkle 74 GTO had a 350 4BBL. No 400 for GTo in 74.
+james madison This Ventura had a 2BBL. No 4BBL 350's for Pontiac in 73
Yep, they all did it for lower insurance premiums, but I know the various GM divisions also did it because GM had certain rules about how much HP a car could have compared to its weight. A GTO with a 400 would be rated at 365 HP, while the exact same engine in a Firebird would be rated at 320 HP.
The same adversary driver as in _Bullitt_
+Caelroigh Blunt It took me finding this video to realize that. 😆
The car engines sounds like Bullitt.
+HALON747 True, and I find that to be a shame since the Fastback WAS a manual car but the Pontiac was an automatic.
That was Bill Hickman. He was one of the great stunt drivers ever. Many an actor soiled themselves in the passenger seat when driving with Hickman.
The car engine sounds were ripped off from Bullitt.
OMG one of the best car chases ever! Good memories with kin that are no longer here
I was watching The French Connection on TCM right now and saw the chase. Now I have the urge to watch all the classic car chases.
Damn I wish I was driving when these monster cars were a part of every day life! So sick of electronics controlling every aspect...
I'm one of the lucky ones , meaning an old dude. I had a 64 1/2 Mustang (6cyl 3 speed but still), a 73 Nova 307 like this 74 Ventura but blue, a 56 Belair 2 door post, a blue 62 Galaxie, a white 66 Lemans (because it looked like a GTO but cheaper), a 67 Biscayne and a 70 Impala...all before I was 22 in 1978. Those were the days man. I wouldn't trade those memories for another 10 years of life.
I worked for a pontiac dealer 68-72. Needed a tow car for my 66 GTO , ordered a 71 Le Mans Wagon 455 H.O. . Pontiac did not want to build the car. Zone rep made a special order 7 months later I got it. Only 455 HO wagon built... I still have the wagon and 66GTO
How could I forget?? At 1:38 you'll see a quick shot of a 64 Malibu, I had one in 1974 as my first legal car that was a 6 with 3 on the tree and my old 65 Catalina teal 4 door boat with the Marijuana decal on the back glass I had in 1976. How I never got stopped was a miracle. That car rode as smooth as my 78 Eldorado I had in 1997.
you could just buy one of these old cars
get a mustang gt and remove the abs fuse.
Best car chase scene EVER!
50 Years old and still Awesome!!
If you look real close at 5:38 you can see the film crew on the bridge , taking the shot for 5:47…….very cool sequence for the best chase scene…..
And at 5:48 in the distance there is a crew taking the first shot
RIP, Roy Scheider, Bill Hickman, & Richard Lynch. LOVE THIS FILM!
Those kids won't be playing in the street for awhile.
Great chase scene, definitely up there with Bullitt.
vidhag900 wait for the Nun to come out and throw a brick at them :)
This is fantastic. Very few people talk about this movie, but this chase rivals Bullitt in every way, and I love Bullitt.
2:22 watch that big ol' Pontiac bouncy bouncy bouncy! And watch for the recurring Pinto as well. Roy Scheider, RIP dude. You were so good in everything you did.
Roy Scheider kicks ass driving that Ventura!! Love it!!
And a recurring '68 Chevy Impala Custom Coupe.
The passenger with the driver being pursued the look in his face is like holycrap I just saw my whole life flash before my eyes.
This car chase sequence is almost similiar in fashion from the one of Bullit's. One guy in a small car the good guy, the bad guys, 2, in a bigger car, chase starts out slow in a city and then climatic ending happens out in a open freeway. Both chase sequences fun to watch. For me I like Bullit's chase sequence better to be honest, but I like this one as well.
Man that Pontiac was fast.
I actually thought it was a Cadillac when I first watched this movie.
Grandville and Ventura.
that big black car most likely runnin a 455!!
Hickman could really drive! Loved him in Bullit!
Wish we had a time machine,love the 70s-60s hollywood dont make films like this any-more, THE ACTORS ARE REAL MAN,REAL MAN
Always loved the absolute terror the actors showed in this and Bullitt. Bill Hickman the bad guy in both chases.
Probably because it was man??!! Lol!!
Scheiders face is priceless!
I just looked up the curb weights on these cars. The 4 door sedan has almost 1600 lbs on the Ventura. I was shocked to read how light the Ventura/Novas we’re back then. Almost as light as my Camry
good point, seeing how Schider couldn't budge him.
Best car chase scene ever! And I love Roy Scheider ❤️
I love this scene because in a modern movies you never see something like this!
Still keeps me on the edge of my seat!!
Everyday, prior to leaving for work, I watch this scene for inspiration. Then it's off we go! Life imitating art. The only problem is when I get to work the car is a complete total. This necessitates procuring a new automobile every following day. It's an expensive habit but the buzz is so wonderful that the day flies by, and before you know it 5:00 rolls around. I take the bus home in the evening and start planning for the next day's morning drive.
That was INCREDIBLE! I need to watch this full movie; looks like it has a French Connection vibe to it. I also love that there was no music, just the sound of the engine and wheels spinning and hubcaps rattling on the pavement. That got my heart rate up, wow!
Is it just me or does anyone else find it hilarious to watch that big ass Pontiac wallow all over the road?
Ever see The Blues Brothers?
Josh Moss I think it's funny too, but man, could that huge Pontiac ever haul-ass, especially at 3:40, and 4:50..
Yahuchanonyakov 455 in that Pontiac that car had a lot of power Roy's car was no slouch either 350 was definitely one of GM best small block s
dude its fucking great lol
I love the suspension recoil launching the car into the air.
I miss the 1970's.
Also has to be mentioned the 70s had some really beautiful cars all such works of art ☺️
I love that at 5:40 you can see another camera crew getting the shot for the next cut as the cars are actively sliding and bouncing in their direction. These stunts were no joke!
Roy Scheider pounding on the steering wheel after they blast through the police barrier made me laugh. Love the frustration he exhibits in just that one bit.
Roy Scheider was WAY underrated as an actor...
Awesome car chase! Anyone notice that Schieder's Pontiac Ventura uses the same engine noise as McQueen's 68 Mustang from Bullitt? Well there is a reason, the producer of this film worked on Bullitt as well as French Connection, so he just recycled the enigine noise, that's pretty common though with some films made by the same people.
Exactly right!
Retro Gameing Guitarist A lot of the production staff in The Seven Ups worked on The French Connection...no accident!
***** you do hear the dub from bullitt in this chase from the seven ups I think around when he's getting shot at at the bus scene
***** I think you're mistaken, too. You hear manual gearchanges being made in the chase car, but wasn't it an automatic? It's the same Bullitt Mustang engine soundtrack.
***** I'm sorry but what you have to see is is that you never and I mean never hear the 390 in the mustang because the engine noise was dubbed during editing and production and you can find it on commentary by peter Yates on the bullitt from Walmart (from 5.00 $) now the same thing happened in the 7 ups. I also love classic movies like I love classic cars so I study them both very carefully and that is how I know it was dubbed.Peter Yates said it was dubbed from a car race at the track.Another fragment of proof is that I heard the same dub of the bullitt mustang on a episode of the dukes of hazard when they where at a track and a guy was driving a white dodge charged.Same dub. You might be able to find the dukes of hazard white charger scene on CZcams. The name of the video is: The dukes of hazard S 2 e 07 scene 02. By TV stunter UK look at it for yourself
Seen this movie so many times and still love it. One of the best car chases scenes ever.
Old 70s movies have the best car chases ever.......
Fun fact: the scene where Scheider's car smashes into the back of the truck shearing off most of the top portion of the car was Hickman's "homage" to the death of Jayne Mansfield.
Whoa! The ending is excellent.
Jaws was such an impact on me when I was a child for obvious reasons. Ever since then, swimming in the ocean near Old Orchard Beach, ME & Old Saybrook, CT when visiting family, I became a supporter of Roy Scheider. I was 7 yrs old when Jaws came out in 1975 and therefore his subsequent movies (Jaws 2, Blue Thunder, 2010 The Year We Make Contact, just to name a few) are among some of my “Most Favourite Movies” list. R.I.P., Roy Scheider, November 10 1932 to February 10 2008. Thank you for all the great memories. ❤❤❤
Check-out 52 Pickup. Yes his role in Blue Thunder was just incredible. I stayed in the theater to see it a second time (back before that was a thing).
One of the best car scene chases ever!!! One of my favorite movie as a kid & even up til this day... 👍
Thanks for the upload man.. My dad showed me this film over my winter break, and I fell in love. This and Bullitt are in a close tie for best car chase scene ever, in my book.
This tops BULLITT.
Bill Hickman was a stunt driving god!! ❤️
Just like my commute every day.
The shot where Roy Scheider makes the turn onto the block with all the school kids playing in the street was filmed right in front of the building where I grew up. I vaguely remember the production rolling in. Fun to see and revisit.
This is the greatest car chase in movie history. Ups the ante on Bullitt and French Connection.