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.
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...
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
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 ?
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
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
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
One of the best chase scenes. I remember going to the theater and watching this with my Pop. ❤
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.
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 !
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.👍
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.
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).
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
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
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!!!
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."
One of my FAVORITE car chases ever.
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.
Underrated film, with a incredible chase sequence.
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 .
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 “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…
Love the sound of rubber squealing in these awesome 70’s movies!
Bias ply tires and lots of body roll.
Everyone used the bullitt soundtrack, jumpin, 4 spped.. lol.. great movies and times..loved all of them..
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
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.
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
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! czcams.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.
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!
Without a doubt, The BEST car chase scene EVER! And the Driver of the black Pontiac is the same guy in the Black Charger in Bullitt!!!! Great Movie!!!!!!!
That's a Buick, not a Pontiac....but I agree!
You are talking about Bill Hickman.
If we were to consider the time line here the driver of the black Pontiac should not be in this film...? He's a criminal always on the run, right? Well, the problem is he was killed on the west coast in a Charger in a massive crash and fireball... So, he should be dead...Lol I always thought when an actor dies in a movie that's it he can no longer be an actor, hahahaha I know crazy hun!!!
David Prestigiacomo that was Bill Hickman, probably one of the greatest stunt drivers of all times. Back in the day, if there was a great chance scene in a movie, he was involved in it.
@@barryscott8041 no, that's a Pontiac. can you not see the clear as day emblem on it?
Bill Hickman was something else . That car chase was all raw , no special effects .
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.
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
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.
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
50 Years ago and still way more realistic than Fast an Furios xD
F Fast and Furious FAKÈ AF
East Coast version Bullitt, down to the chase starting in the city and ending up on the highway, the engine sounds, and even the cars catching air at intersections. It's amazing that the film team found a long road in NYC that mimicked the downhill chase in San Francisco, where the cars were going airborne at cross roads.
It was definitely easier doing that sort of thing in NYC 50 years ago. But if people keep leaving the city, who knows?
A freind worked on location in this film.He and Roy S. we're friends.Barry Weitz is his name.Barry also worked on the Bullitt set in San Fran.
One of the best chase scenes ever ❤
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.
What a great movie - I remember watching all movies starring Roy Schneider - he must have been the seventies Tom Cruise - minus all the scionist and short dude crap. The land barges in the movie handle so well that sometimes you have to ask how - and if - the wheels are connected to the body. Also - the movie complies with all the legally obliging chase scene laws - no matter how many - and how well armed - guys are in the front vehicle, the front vehicle always runs from the one behind it - the vehicle driven by the bad guys always loses a hub cap - and the V8 in the good guy vehicle always sounds 1000 times better. To anyone wanting to watch a truly magnificent movie - find and watch the Sorcerer directed by the brilliant William Friedkin - who directed some other "all time great" movies like the Exorcist, The French Connection, and many others. Kuddos for posting the video, greetings from Latvia.
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
Hickman’s car was a ‘73 Grand Ville with the 455 engine, putting out 215 hp. Scheider’s ‘73 Ventura Sprint had a 350 engine with a 2 barrel carb, putting out about 180 hp. The Grand Ville weighed a lot more though.
If you look at the Grand Ville the car has dual exhaust. That engine was rated at 250 hp. The single exhaust was 215 hp
I saw this with my dad back in the days. I love you dad. RIP.
Rip 👍🏾‼️
I remember watching this on TV with my dad in the 1970s.
4:29 awesome pans
4:43 long 12 sec of hyperspeed city driving
4:57 killer zoom
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
This is my favorite scene, the 73 Grandville reminds me of my late grand dad's car...
I was a little kid when I first saw this movie with my dad and the carwash scene always freaked me out after that. Every time my dad took me to the carwash, I'd would be looking for those guys.....lol
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Rest in peace Roy Schneider he went from fighting Jaws to fighting this handling on the Pontiac Ventura
Honestly I was surprised at how balanced it looks, at least compared to that tin boat he was chasing lol.
It looks the same as the Chevy Nova
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.
5:01 Love this tyre sound effect. It was also heard in "The French Connection", what a surprise. I'd love for someone to take these great car chases and get the sound effects for the tyres screeching and crashing sound effects.
It reminds me of the Gumball Rally, which is also from the 70's
I had a 67bonneville...at high speed it handled like a big jelly donut. Hats off to Bill Hickman.
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.
The old hiding-in-front-of-a-bus trick gets'm every time.
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.
Man, these old car chases got me hyped up.WHOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes the 1970s have some of the best car chase scenes in my opinion wicked 😀 👌
This whole movie is an underrated urban-cop classic, it’s regraded as an unofficial French Connection sequel
I saw this on the big screen when I was a kid!
Exciting!
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!
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.
Cloudy weather, sunny weather, morning sun, late afternoon sun - all manage to occur during the few minutes of the first scene.
I had a '74 Pontiac Catalina 400. It NEVER sounded like that lol. Kick ass chase though!
I've got a 74 cat.
Take off the intake and duce carb, throw on a four barrel and dual exhaust and you've got the start of a real street sweeper.
Those Pontiac 400s are power monsters.
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
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've never seen this movie but I first heard about it like 30 years ago as my stepdad's favourite car chase. Doesn't disappoint.
I've seen this movie many times and always noticed how they lifted the soundtrack from Bullitt for the chase cars. That Ventura is an automatic and you can hear the clutching and shifting. Most of the chase car sounds are dubbed in during the Foley editing post production. Supposedly the Mustang engine in Bullitt was actually a Ford GT40.
Haven't seen the movie in a while but I think that Ventura might have been an actual police spec car with a hi perf 350, you can see it has dual pipes, one that turns out behind each rear tire.
All the cars in The Seven ups were stock with suspension mods done by the stunt team to Hickman`s specs. Bill Hickman and Corey Lofton were the 2 best wheelman in the 70`s. From what I have read Hickman was really hard to work with but who cares he could stage a car chase like no one else.
The Mustang in Bullitt had the 390 that had some performance work done on it so it could keep up with the 440 Magnum powered Charger R/T. (Prior to the filming of the chase in Bullitt, both the Mustang and the Charger were tested at Cotati Speedway north of SF by Steve McQueen, Bill Hickman & Carey Loftin. They found out that in real life, the Charger was much faster than the Mustang.)
The Pontiac Grand Ville had the Wide Track suspension and the Ventura had the police suspension from the Chevy Nova which was a popular police undercover and detective car for local law enforcement agencies at the time.
@@Marc816 Yeah the 390 was boat anchor. Fine in a Thunderchicken, but as a performance engine. No way,
It sounds punchy like a small cube GM engine yet has a big cube growl at the top from a Pontiac 400
I always have that Bonneville in my head when sliding through turns in my 78 LTD. 😊
There's something exhilarating and utterly terrifying about throwing 4,000lbs+ of steel into hard maneuvers. No traction control, no anti-lock breaking systems or fancy safety features. Just sheer power and the skills to wield it.
Richard Lynch's expressions seem to portrait sheer terror from what Mr. Hickman was doing while driving, lol
Bill Hickman is THE Legend in these scenes. Well done sir, great driving. RIP.
455 cu inches. 180 hp and 600 ft/lb of torque. The good ole days.
They probably had more than 180 h.p. with a 455. The cubic inches shrank and the h.p. was choked after these cars were made.
Unique to America.
@@DHW256 And they were thirsty. 455 cubic inches with only 235 horsepower due to emissions that intentionally cut horsepower in the early 70's big cars. The 455 cubic inches of the 60's put out 375-390+ of horses ✌
455ci in a Ventura.. I doubt it.. More like a 350, maybe 400....
@@davidkastin4240 Unofficially some of those big block cars (pre-emissions era) left the factory pushing out 600+hp. Notably the "race-spec" Dodge and Plymouth cars.
Love how they used Bullitt sound clips for the baby Pontiac..... Hilarious honestly
SO MUCH BETTER THAN TODAYS CRAP
Many people talk about how theres *NO CGI* and *ACTION* and no *EFFECTS* when the sounds are just ear screeching
You cut the part out where the truck driver helps Buddy out of the wrecked car. I love that scene.
Right. And the trucker brushes the broken glass off Roy and the dirty look Roy gives him like “WTF”
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Yeah, haha. Its a great scene.
Richard Lynch always gave remarkable performances as a villain with his severe facial scar tissue.
I saw him play villain type roles in other movies and tv shows as well!
I grew up seeing him in various films and thought he was the perfect disturbing villain.
Yeah his face is almost as scary as Jack Palance.
That ONE CLIP was better then all the fast and furious movies put together!!!
😂 real talk!!
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I have a '73 Pontiac Grand Ville that I have owned since 2003. Great car.
Tennesseestorm76 my dad had a '73 Grandville convertable since the 90s, it was his project car we still have, it's an amazing car, and truly land yaught
I had a '74 Buick Electra with a 455, so can kind of relate.. Loved that boat!
Gaming Heaven Studios ... Here's a couple words for you. Convertible. Yacht.
@@JW...-oj5iw JW, God bless you!
@@culcune We had that, an Electra with a 455, man that was a fast car! We always had Buicks. I miss the old Buick colors, they were beautiful cars.
From the streets to the beach. Roy Scheider was always a shark chaser...lol Get em Brody!!!
Man, This was great action then and now . It felt like watching Bullit
Same stunt driver in both flicks. The legendary Bill Hickman
This is much better than the newer movies. It's got natural effects in it. Skill not CGI.
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.
The three best "old-school" car chases - this one, Bullitt, and Dabney Coleman's in the sleeper film, "Short Time."
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?
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@@caveredecorator5310,
Korgan was being specific.
What ... do you need him to spell it out for you? 😃
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..
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.............?????????
If you pause at 3:24 you can see one of the first old type of style traffic lights New York use to have.
If only Novas/Venturas were sold with motors that sounded like that!
Rich Sackett,
The Nova SS came with a 396 & 454 cubic inch engines in the '70's...
Pontiac had the GTO with the same type of engines... I'm not sure of the Ventura...
The GM compacts (Nova, Ventura, Omega, Skylark) could be ordered with a 350 4 barrel, decently fast for the times.
Rich Sackett it literally Ford GT40 engine sound
3:40 lol!!!
@@dalemcnamee2427 No Nova ever came with a 454 cu. in. from factory. Yenko Motors modified some through COPO but he always used a 427 cu. in.
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.
One of my favorites because the Grand Ville has dimensions similar to my Lexus LS460.
Love big Japanese land boats!!