One of my favorites: James Bond on the Lago di garda with the bad guys in Alfa 159s :-). After I saw the scene I went their with my 156 - what an incredible piece of road!
These all look amazing if hard to come by outside of Italy. To me, it doesn't get better than the excellent chases in Ronin or The Italian Job (the 1969 original, not the Marky Mark remake!)
Excellent clip! Here's my favourite Italian car chase : the police chasing the Stratos in Napoli spara! Not so much on the technical side, but the idea of a little rascal driving off in a Stratos just made me crack... a hilarious scene with tongue-in-cheek humor.
Not a car chase , but the opening sequence of the original (1969) Italian Job with the Lamborghini Muira and a Fiat Dino. I was a kid when I saw that movie and that was the first time I'd ever seen a Lamborghini.
Wonderful video, completely forgot the Bud Spencer Chase with an Espada! The artificial picture flaws hurt the eyes though... My favourite car chase is the one in Ronin.
I love seeing these strange (not to you) little european van's from all of the different manufacturers - I find them both bizarre and charming and individually unique - that being said, here's a few of my favorite car chases : almost any James Bond movie, Bullit (of course), The Getaway (first version), The Seven Ups, The French Connection, Against All Odds (308 vs 911) The Blues Brothers (held the record for most vehicles destroyed on a single movie), Vanishing Point (early 70's counter culture classic Mopar tribute) Gumball Rally (Raoul Julia was perfect) and Ronin (off season F1 drivers doing the stunts) - another great post, my friend!
The muscle car chase in The French Connection. When heard through a decent stereo or home theater those V8 noises come through nicely. Even if they are dubbed, they're very well dubbed.
In the 1968 film Roma come Chicago there aren't many cool car chases but great shots of alfa 2600 police cars . At the end you also see the Ferrari 250 GTE as driven by Armandino Spatafora . I also love the end chase in la polizia sta guadare and the start chase in High times with Franco Nero . I need to get out more .
Love these old clips ! By the way have you seen the Ryan Reynolds films 6 Underground and Red Note ? Both heavily feature current 952 Giulias in the opening scenes
Fantastic idea for a video. For me the best car chase moment is in "Poliziotto Sprint" when the brown Citroën DS going in reverse is chased by a score of Giulias, and suddenly in a blink of an eye, in the space of a milisecond, it turns around 180° GLUED ON THE GROUND and starts speeding forward. How the hell did they manage this with a car that has column shift and no handbrake? Incredible.
Thank you! That 180° reverse turn is relatively easy to do, actually, I've tried it myself using a big empty parking lot. You don't need the handbrake (which on the DS is operated by a lever under the dash and locks the front wheels) at all. Reverse at full speed, then steer abruptly while stepping completely off the gas: the large, sudden weight transfer from front to back is what makes the car turn so sharply on itself.
I'll second that, especially the chase through the sewers! I still cringe when the poor Giuilia Polizia sedan gets impaled on the rocks when exiting :-(
Great video, Matteo! One of my favourites is "C'etait une rendez-vous" although it doesn't contain a chase scene and the real car used for filming was a w116 6.9 🤣
Gene Hackman chasing the elevated train with the heroin dealer onboard through Brooklyn in French Connection is not technically a car chase - but it's fantastic!
I've watched so many Italian car chases. I see that if the bad guys don't drive Italian, they often drive BMW. Bit like Jags being driven by the bad guys in the UK. As for my favourite, l love them all.
Yeah, that happened quite often in Italian movies, but it wasn't a fixed trope: there were just as many movies where the bad guys drove Giulias or Fiat 124s... Just as they did in real life at the time!
And now... something completely different! I like these kind of chasing car scenes, and my favourite is the original one, Bullitt! The 70's were a great decade for this, but I missed "The Italian Job", because the cars that werw chasing the Minis were those green Alfa Romeo from the Police. I should also talk about the Alfa Romeo GTV 2.5 chase from James Bond's Octopussy. It´s a good one, but maybe not in here for obvious reasons.
I left "The Italian Job" out because it wasn't an Italian production, but I do love that movie! Maybe I could make a video about Alfas in movies in general...
@Earl Stirling Wow, thank you very much for your enthusiastic support. Congrats on your Spider too, that's a car I've driven quite a lot but actually never owned. I dream about getting one, as soon as I can!
can't say which Italian car chase is my favorite, since sadly, it seems to be hard to access them from outside of Italy. But in more general terms, what can beat the trifacta of Ronin, The Seven Ups, and Bullitt? (OK, there's The Driver, Duell, French Connection, and Short Time, but who's counting?)
Another master piece from you. My favourite car chase is from Burglar movie in which Jean Paul drives my favourite car 124 special, is chased by Omer Sharif in a French Car
Wow, how cool. I could watch these movies all day. Does anyone know where they may be found with English subtitles if possible?? If not with subtitles, where can they be found. Very very cool.
It's a good one too, at least by the genre's standards. And actor Maurizio Merli did most of the driving himself too, kind of an Italian Steve McQueen :)
I have two car chases that I could watch over and over again everythime I see the movies. The first one is from the french movie "Taxi 2", when a tuned Peugeot 406 is chased by three Mitsubishi Lancer Evo's through Paris. The other one must be the chase in "Goldeneye" when James Bond are chasing Colonel Ourumov's Volga with a tank. Don't know if the last one is classified as a "car chase" though.
High Crime with Franco Nero features a fabulous chase scene in the beginning of the movie. Also Milano Trema with Luca Merenda has some nice scenes with an Iso Grifo.
"Best car chase" (= directed & edited in the best way possible): "Bullit" (by Peter Yates). "Best car chase" (= more fun and crazy, without becoming totally ridiculous): "Le chasse" (by Henrie Verneuille).
Ha! Italian film is a huge gap in my cultural life. I know a few Italian films, but none of your choices. A film that did come to the UK in the 90s was "La Scorta". Plenty of car scenes, but few chases. Nice cars, though.... Nice cars of the time. I do recall also a wonderful 60s film about a group of bullion robbers evading the police in Turin... But I do not think it was actually an Italian film. The actors were mostly British, as were many of the cars. The cars I recall best were driven by a group of concerned Italian businessmen (led by Raf Vallone) who tried to prevent the robbery. They had a beautiful convoy of Fiat Dino coupés. Stunning. If there were an Oscar for car scenes, a line of black Dino coupés should win it. As to a Ferrari being held at bay by a DS..... I recall from my troubled youth that on the public highway a quite modest car can match or even exceed the speed of a powerful one. Once you add junctions and traffic signals and traffic, the advantages of the race track are largely lost. Lovely video. Lovely cars. I am a sucker for the 130 Coupé. I haven't seen one on the wild for decades, bit it is nice to get a glimpse on CZcams. Grazie.
I bought an Alfa 147 twin spark top speck to sell on. In all my years of fixing and selling cars this is the first Alfa I bought and my wife and both kids (20) plus went out to the garage to see it. My wife said to me don't sell it there is something about it. It is the first time this has happened.. that is Alfa love.
Ha Ha got you there, I can recommend this film to everybody, it is full of action and it is very cruel in some parts : (1973) La Polizia incrimina, la legge assolve. (I don't even know what it means) It plays in Genua and 9 years ago when I bought my Renault R8S in Italy near Aquapendiente I first had to go to Genua because there was a ship that needed some supplies and repairs from our company, it struck me that I recognized still a lot of places where the film was shot, this is one of the films that made a great impression on me, I sometimes look up the car chase which is also done by Remy Julienne and his French team. If I remember well, there was a blue FIAT 125 driven by the mafiosi and they kill the daughter of the police inspector by running her down with that FIAT, the shot is great, you see a close up of one wheel of the FIAT and the shining hubcap, the girl's face, playing innocently and all of a sudden the wheel of the FIAT spins like hell and they run her down, killing that little girl, I still get goose bumps from that scene ! This film was released in the Godfather era and it does bear some resemblance with the Godfather, it is equally cruel sometimes. And the music is great ! Here's the car chase from that film : czcams.com/video/W7CM_GcJ2FM/video.htmlr,
My favourite: "High Crime", also known as the "Marseilles Connection", with a Alfa Giulia "Squadra Volante" chasing a Citroen DS ambulance through Genoa. I think they might also cross and recross the bridge that collapsed a couple of years ago.
I watch quite a lot of these old Italian gangster movies on CZcams Matteo for the cars. Napoli spara etc. There is a French guy who seems to use mostly Fiats and one of his films he is driving a series 3 131 Supermirafiori chasing the baddies in a Peugoet 504. Rodger Moore driving a GTV6 in Octopussy.
Roger Moore as James Bond in a Citroën 2cv is great. And (not really a chase situation) Bud Spencer, thrashing a party location in a mansion in a Ford Escort rally car. I loved that scene as a kid and it's still one of my favorites..
The original 'Man on Fire', made 17 years before the Denzel Washington remake and with Scott Glen in the title role, was a joint Italian production filmed on Lake Como, in Milan and at the Cinecitta Studios. There are some interesting cars in the film uncluding an Alfa Guiletta Spider, a Citroën SM, a Lancia Thema and a Jaguar Mk. II.
I can't recall specific chase scenes, but I can think of some great Italian shows featuring fantastic cars, which had various sequences of cars screaming around. Il Cacciatore (TV series), for the prosecutor's 2000 spider, and the 33s and 75s used by the Sicilian police. Romanzo Criminale (TV series) - if only for Dandy's Fulvia HF. Il Divo(movie) - govt officials getting round in Alfa 164s. The Mafia Only Kills in Summer (TV series) - Alfetta sedan driven by the kids "iffy" uncle. The movie also has great cars. Traitor (movie) - 33s and 75s in abundance. I know there are more, but those will do for a start.
Could any period »Fiat« commercial with mentioned Rémy Julienne qualify? Altough more relaxed-physics-oriented, there's couple of fun parts in Italian-French »I gendarmi di Saint-Tropez«-»Le Gendarme (de Saint-Tropez)« films series with Louis De Funès, but primarily I appreciate that franchise for lot od beatiful and legendary cars involved. Probably my favourite childhood foreign classic movie comedy, hugely popular in Yugoslavia. This said, De Funès acted in »L'aile ou la cuisse« and »Fantômas« series, also with couple of chases.
Eh si. Un grande, che faceva molti degli stunt personalmente, senza controfigura. I suoi film sono decisamente i miei preferiti del genere, sono d'accordo!
'Brutal Naples'. The protagonist playing by Maurizio Merli, is a policeman on Alfetta, chasing criminals on a motorcycle. Through the busy streets of Naples. 'The Professional'. Hero of Jean-Paul Belmondo on a Fiat skillfully hides from the security forces on a Peugeot. The film is not Italian, but with very strong Italian accents. From the Italian roots of Belmondo, to the masterpieces of Morricone. And both Peugeot and Fiat are already relatives
What a great idea! More please! Close to your examples are the many great scenes from the original version of The Italian Job. Did they really thrash a Miura? And what about those Jaguar E-types? Obviously my favorite scenes tend to contain Citroen DS's, although it always pains me when one actually gets thrashed. As an example of an actually Italian movie I'd like to point out Diabolik (again with some jummy E-types included). Furthermore: Who could ever forget what Louis de Funes did to cars in french movies, again including many a DS. Then there are all those 60ties, mostly equally cheap and cheerful, Europsy movies. Let's also not forget the De Gaule assassination attempt scene from the original Day Of The Jackal. I could go on for hours but if I have to point out only one scene it however has to be the chase in Ronin, in which an XM outpaces several cars, among them a whole pack of supposedly superior German ones. Am I too much of a fan or is that XM really behaving much more stable then the rest? :-)
I'm glad you liked this unusual video topic. Sometimes a random idea comes up, and becomes a video. After all, publishing every week does take some creativity :) Ronin is a masterpiece, as it was The Italian Job in its genre. Luis De Funes' movies are awesome too, I agree!
Great video, thanks. BTW, did I hear you say Ford Transit at 2.54? which it clearly isn't. A non-Italian made film but one that features a short chase with a Fiat 130 saloon and also a Alfa Guilia (both have a sad ending unfortunately) is "The Mechanic" from 1972 with Charles Bronson.
Well it actually is a Ford Transit van. But not from that main Transit line. It is its predecessor Ford FK 1000/1250 known on some markets as Ford Taunus Transit or simply Ford Transit.
@g 928 Yes, It was manufactured in West Germany. In UK you had plenty of other relatively good vans, Bedfords, Ford Thames... In continental Europe 50's and 60's were in the rythm of VW Transporter boxer ramble. Slow as hell, no heating, impractical with engine in back. Also there were minor things like Alfa Romeo Romeo, interesting but unsuccesful. When Ford decided to merge its UK market with the rest of Europe, suddenly british built Transits were everywhere and they were really good. So good in fact, that it took VW till 1990 to finally make good enough van to cope with them.
Apparently, Gianni Agnelli, who was something of a genius, saw the potential and offered the producers Fiat 500s to replace the Minis. The then-British Leyland, with characteristic charm and acumen, insisted the makers paid for the cars they used. But the producers felt the Mini was essential to the movie and reluctantly turned Agnelli down - and helped make the Mini a style icon. Agnelli, however, was still very helpful and - as Turin's most famous citizen before Giorgio Armani arrived - helped smooth the way for location filming and made sure Fiats were in almost every shot!
I wouldn't go as far as calling Agnelli a genius, but he indeed was very helpful with the production: without his support, they wouldn't have had access to the Lingotto's roof and they wouldn't have been able to shoot the jump scene between two buildings, as that was shot in the Mirafiori factory area, dressed-up to look like an urban street :)
I don't know the Name of the movie but its also an Italian one. The chase begins with people being shot and a child gets kidnapped by the Bad guys in an Opel Diplomat and the dad of the child has a Fiat 1100 Taxi and chases them. It's also from the 70s i think. Can you Help me out on this one?
That has to do with Italian legislation. That red stripe identified the van as a vehicle used to transport stuff relative to the owner's business i.e. not transporting stuff on someone else's behalf.
@@Matteo_Licata thanks! I noticed that when I was researching the 1958 italian elections "vota comunista" Sputnik-van. Couldn't figure out what it was. Any clue? That would make a great video!
@@pseixaspal I looked it up, as I had never seen it. The pics available don't show the badge and the vehicle is, obviously, a coachbuilt special. Given its wheel design and general proportions, I'd say it was based on a Fiat 1100T
Ha Ha got you there, I can recommend this film to everybody, it is full of action and it is very cruel in some parts : (1973) La Polizia incrimina, la legge assolve. (I don't even know what it means) It plays in Genua and 9 years ago when I bought my Renault R8S in Italy near Aquapendiente I first had to go to Genua because there was a ship that needed some supplies and repairs from our company, it struck me that I recognized still a lot of places where the film was shot, this is one of the films that made a great impression on me, I sometimes look up the car chase which is also done by Remy Julienne and his French team. If I remember well, there was a blue FIAT 125 driven by the mafiosi and they kill the daughter of the police inspector by running her down with that FIAT, the shot is great, you see a close up of one wheel of the FIAT and the shining hubcap, the girl's face, playing innocently and all of a sudden the wheel of the FIAT spins like hell and they run her down, killing that little girl, I still get goose bumps from that scene ! This film was released in the Godfather era and it does bear some resemblance with the Godfather, it is equally cruel sometimes. And the music is great ! Here's the car chase from that film : czcams.com/video/W7CM_GcJ2FM/video.htmlr,
la@@Matteo_Licata I was checking Autoscout for a Renault 4, oneof my first cars when I saw a familiar dashboard : the Renault 8S, the seller lived near Acquapendente a beautiful place and for work (marine safety world) I had to go to Genova anyway, so we took the truck with trailer and drove down there and I bought the car for a price which could not be true ! The car is original paint and 4 headlights it belonged to an old man who bought it new when in his seventies. Is is still on italian plates, I love the licence plate Roma H74787 and the dealer sticker from Roma. The car's name is Augusto after its original owner It is not a real mint car as it lived in Rome but it is 100% original! Can send you pictures if you want.
One of my favorites: James Bond on the Lago di garda with the bad guys in Alfa 159s :-). After I saw the scene I went their with my 156 - what an incredible piece of road!
God bless you Italians, the world is much more beautiful place because of you.
These all look amazing if hard to come by outside of Italy. To me, it doesn't get better than the excellent chases in Ronin or The Italian Job (the 1969 original, not the Marky Mark remake!)
Excellent clip! Here's my favourite Italian car chase : the police chasing the Stratos in Napoli spara! Not so much on the technical side, but the idea of a little rascal driving off in a Stratos just made me crack... a hilarious scene with tongue-in-cheek humor.
Thank you! Yes I remember that scene... Certainly the movie's highlight, as the rest of the story wasn't great :)
Loving the cop Alfa 2600 Sprint in the first scene. Surprised that 'The Italian Job' wasn't in here but then it wasn't all strictly Italian.
That 2600 Sprint is awesome, yes. As you correctly guessed, I left "The Italian Job" out because it was a British production.
Not a car chase , but the opening sequence of the original (1969) Italian Job with the Lamborghini Muira and a Fiat Dino. I was a kid when I saw that movie and that was the first time I'd ever seen a Lamborghini.
Wonderful video, completely forgot the Bud Spencer Chase with an Espada! The artificial picture flaws hurt the eyes though...
My favourite car chase is the one in Ronin.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I love seeing these strange (not to you) little european van's from all of the different manufacturers - I find them both bizarre and charming and individually unique - that being said, here's a few of my favorite car chases : almost any James Bond movie, Bullit (of course), The Getaway (first version), The Seven Ups, The French Connection, Against All Odds (308 vs 911) The Blues Brothers (held the record for most vehicles destroyed on a single movie), Vanishing Point (early 70's counter culture classic Mopar tribute) Gumball Rally (Raoul Julia was perfect) and Ronin (off season F1 drivers doing the stunts) - another great post, my friend!
Thank you! I agree with all your movie choices, by the way!
The muscle car chase in The French Connection. When heard through a decent stereo or home theater those V8 noises come through nicely. Even if they are dubbed, they're very well dubbed.
In the 1968 film Roma come Chicago there aren't many cool car chases but great shots of alfa 2600 police cars . At the end you also see the Ferrari 250 GTE as driven by Armandino Spatafora . I also love the end chase in la polizia sta guadare and the start chase in High times with Franco Nero . I need to get out more .
Love these old clips ! By the way have you seen the Ryan Reynolds films 6 Underground and Red Note ? Both heavily feature current 952 Giulias in the opening scenes
I'm aware of both but haven't watched them, as I don't have Netflix. I hope those placements serve to sell a few more Alfas though!
Fiat Dino is my favorite Italian car and unfortunately it rarely featured in car chase scenes. In "The Italian Job" it appears only as a side show.
Fantastic idea for a video. For me the best car chase moment is in "Poliziotto Sprint" when the brown Citroën DS going in reverse is chased by a score of Giulias, and suddenly in a blink of an eye, in the space of a milisecond, it turns around 180° GLUED ON THE GROUND and starts speeding forward. How the hell did they manage this with a car that has column shift and no handbrake? Incredible.
Thank you! That 180° reverse turn is relatively easy to do, actually, I've tried it myself using a big empty parking lot. You don't need the handbrake (which on the DS is operated by a lever under the dash and locks the front wheels) at all. Reverse at full speed, then steer abruptly while stepping completely off the gas: the large, sudden weight transfer from front to back is what makes the car turn so sharply on itself.
"The Italian Job" on the street of Torino is the masterpiece...
I'm surprised the streets and the autostrade looks kind of the same 50 years after.
The Italian Job is such good fun, I agree! Got a poster of that movie hanging in my flat
I'll second that, especially the chase through the sewers! I still cringe when the poor Giuilia Polizia sedan gets impaled on the rocks when exiting :-(
Great video, Matteo! One of my favourites is "C'etait une rendez-vous" although it doesn't contain a chase scene and the real car used for filming was a w116 6.9 🤣
Nice one!
The Lotus Esprit chase from “The Spy Who Loved Me” is definitely one of my favourites, as is the Bullitt chase
Gene Hackman chasing the elevated train with the heroin dealer onboard through Brooklyn in French Connection is not technically a car chase - but it's fantastic!
That's fantastic. It's incredible how they shot that scene without closing the roads, taking huge risks!
I've watched so many Italian car chases. I see that if the bad guys don't drive Italian, they often drive BMW. Bit like Jags being driven by the bad guys in the UK.
As for my favourite, l love them all.
Yeah, that happened quite often in Italian movies, but it wasn't a fixed trope: there were just as many movies where the bad guys drove Giulias or Fiat 124s... Just as they did in real life at the time!
And now... something completely different! I like these kind of chasing car scenes, and my favourite is the original one, Bullitt!
The 70's were a great decade for this, but I missed "The Italian Job", because the cars that werw chasing the Minis were those green Alfa Romeo from the Police.
I should also talk about the Alfa Romeo GTV 2.5 chase from James Bond's Octopussy. It´s a good one, but maybe not in here for obvious reasons.
I left "The Italian Job" out because it wasn't an Italian production, but I do love that movie! Maybe I could make a video about Alfas in movies in general...
@Earl Stirling Wow, thank you very much for your enthusiastic support. Congrats on your Spider too, that's a car I've driven quite a lot but actually never owned. I dream about getting one, as soon as I can!
English movie shot in Italy with a great car chase - The Italian Job.
My favorite Italian film with no car chase scene - L'Avventura.
Thanks Matteo
Mine - the getaway in minis in the original Italian job.
Thank you! Yes, the Italian Job is such a great film!
can't say which Italian car chase is my favorite, since sadly, it seems to be hard to access them from outside of Italy. But in more general terms, what can beat the trifacta of Ronin, The Seven Ups, and Bullitt? (OK, there's The Driver, Duell, French Connection, and Short Time, but who's counting?)
Ronin was best for me too 👍
Unfortunately I didn’t get to see any of those Italian films mentioned.
Here's another vote for Ronin. The guy asked for a getway car that didn't look too conspicuous, so the W116 6.9 was perfect for the job!
Another master piece from you. My favourite car chase is from Burglar movie in which Jean Paul drives my favourite car 124 special, is chased by Omer Sharif in a French Car
Thank you! That’s a cool scene indeed.
- Omar Sharif is driving an incredibly beat up Opel Rekord A in that chase sequence.
Brilliant, I really enjoyed that. Thank you
Thank you!
Wow, how cool. I could watch these movies all day. Does anyone know where they may be found with English subtitles if possible?? If not with subtitles, where can they be found. Very very cool.
@@DashCamSerbia Ayto thank you for your reply. I will definitely check it out. Many thanks.
I’ve not seen any of those films mentioned, but for car lust alone I’d like to see the film with the Alfa Giulia chasing the BMW 2000 👌
It's a good one too, at least by the genre's standards. And actor Maurizio Merli did most of the driving himself too, kind of an Italian Steve McQueen :)
I have two car chases that I could watch over and over again everythime I see the movies. The first one is from the french movie "Taxi 2", when a tuned Peugeot 406 is chased by three Mitsubishi Lancer Evo's through Paris. The other one must be the chase in "Goldeneye" when James Bond are chasing Colonel Ourumov's Volga with a tank. Don't know if the last one is classified as a "car chase" though.
Love to watch just a street views from this kind of old movies, streets and parkingplaces full of good looking classy cars 😎
Couldn't agree more!
My favourite car chase in movies is the one with a ferrari on the highway in "Bad boys II" with Will Smith.
High Crime with Franco Nero features a fabulous chase scene in the beginning of the movie. Also Milano Trema with Luca Merenda has some nice scenes with an Iso Grifo.
Yes, I remember that scene with the Iso Grifo. Unbelievable how those cars were just treated like trash in those years
@@Matteo_Licata driven to the limit!
...92 minuti di applausi....
"e ora... le proiezioni!!!!"
Wow, what a cool video! My favourite clearly is Piedone Lo Sbirro, that Espada is just gorgeous. Thank you so much, ciao 🙋♂️
Glad you enjoyed it!
Ronin has been unmatchable for me!
Nice thinking, the subject of this video!
Ronin was best for me too 👍
κ μετά μας λες πως δεν είσαι κρυφομπεμβεδάκιας! 😜😄😄
Agreed Ronin both of them Paris and Nice
Totally agree. Ronin is very hard to beat indeed. And it's a great movie from start to finish, it's not just about the action scenes.
@@chrtsi6912 Τι περιμένεις από άνθρωπο, που έμαθε να οδηγάει σε 2002tii; 🤣
"Best car chase" (= directed & edited in the best way possible): "Bullit" (by Peter Yates).
"Best car chase" (= more fun and crazy, without becoming totally ridiculous): "Le chasse" (by Henrie Verneuille).
Couldn't agree more with your choices!
Ha! Italian film is a huge gap in my cultural life.
I know a few Italian films, but none of your choices.
A film that did come to the UK in the 90s was "La Scorta". Plenty of car scenes, but few chases. Nice cars, though.... Nice cars of the time.
I do recall also a wonderful 60s film about a group of bullion robbers evading the police in Turin... But I do not think it was actually an Italian film. The actors were mostly British, as were many of the cars. The cars I recall best were driven by a group of concerned Italian businessmen (led by Raf Vallone) who tried to prevent the robbery. They had a beautiful convoy of Fiat Dino coupés. Stunning. If there were an Oscar for car scenes, a line of black Dino coupés should win it.
As to a Ferrari being held at bay by a DS..... I recall from my troubled youth that on the public highway a quite modest car can match or even exceed the speed of a powerful one. Once you add junctions and traffic signals and traffic, the advantages of the race track are largely lost.
Lovely video. Lovely cars. I am a sucker for the 130 Coupé.
I haven't seen one on the wild for decades, bit it is nice to get a glimpse on CZcams.
Grazie.
I bought an Alfa 147 twin spark top speck to sell on. In all my years of fixing and selling cars this is the first Alfa I bought and my wife and both kids (20) plus went out to the garage to see it. My wife said to me don't sell it there is something about it. It is the first time this has happened.. that is Alfa love.
Wow, that's cool! Thank you for letting me know!
Wife with taste. Lucky man.
Ha Ha got you there, I can recommend this film to everybody, it is full of action and it is very cruel in some parts : (1973) La Polizia incrimina, la legge assolve. (I don't even know what it means)
It plays in Genua and 9 years ago when I bought my Renault R8S in Italy near Aquapendiente I first had to go to Genua because there was a ship that needed some supplies and repairs from our company, it struck me that I recognized still a lot of places where the film was shot, this is one of the films that made a great impression on me, I sometimes look up the car chase which is also done by Remy Julienne and his French team. If I remember well, there was a blue FIAT 125 driven by the mafiosi and they kill the daughter of the police inspector by running her down with that FIAT, the shot is great, you see a close up of one wheel of the FIAT and the shining hubcap, the girl's face, playing innocently and all of a sudden the wheel of the FIAT spins like hell and they run her down, killing that little girl, I still get goose bumps from that scene !
This film was released in the Godfather era and it does bear some resemblance with the Godfather, it is equally cruel sometimes. And the music is great !
Here's the car chase from that film : czcams.com/video/W7CM_GcJ2FM/video.htmlr,
So cool. My mum had that same BMW 2000
con Belmondo , 1971, Fiat 124 special T 1400;)))
My favourite: "High Crime", also known as the "Marseilles Connection", with a Alfa Giulia "Squadra Volante" chasing a Citroen DS ambulance through Genoa. I think they might also cross and recross the bridge that collapsed a couple of years ago.
Ah yes, I remember that one! Cool!
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Thank you! Yes, "Palermo-Milano" is a cult movie for Alfa fans. That 164 Q4 was gorgeous too
@@Matteo_Licata yess ..the Red 164 Q4 looks pretty too...
I watch quite a lot of these old Italian gangster movies on CZcams Matteo for the cars. Napoli spara etc. There is a French guy who seems to use mostly Fiats and one of his films he is driving a series 3 131 Supermirafiori chasing the baddies in a Peugoet 504. Rodger Moore driving a GTV6 in Octopussy.
You refer to the great Jean Paul Belmondo in "Le Professionel," I guess... That's a cool movie indeed, and the stunts were done by Remy Julienne too
The chases in "6 underground " with Giulia quadrifoglio .
Bullet I love see a mustang chasing down charger, oh and the chase in the blues brothers.
Roger Moore as James Bond in a Citroën 2cv is great. And (not really a chase situation) Bud Spencer, thrashing a party location in a mansion in a Ford Escort rally car. I loved that scene as a kid and it's still one of my favorites..
Oh yes, that movie with the Ford Escort was "Altrimenti ci Arrabbiamo," and it's been a fixture of my childhood too!
The original 'Man on Fire', made 17 years before the Denzel Washington remake and with Scott Glen in the title role, was a joint Italian production filmed on Lake Como, in Milan and at the Cinecitta Studios. There are some interesting cars in the film uncluding an Alfa Guiletta Spider, a Citroën SM, a Lancia Thema and a Jaguar Mk. II.
That’s one I have never seen, I’ll check that out, thank you!
I can't recall specific chase scenes, but I can think of some great Italian shows featuring fantastic cars, which had various sequences of cars screaming around.
Il Cacciatore (TV series), for the prosecutor's 2000 spider, and the 33s and 75s used by the Sicilian police.
Romanzo Criminale (TV series) - if only for Dandy's Fulvia HF.
Il Divo(movie) - govt officials getting round in Alfa 164s.
The Mafia Only Kills in Summer (TV series) - Alfetta sedan driven by the kids "iffy" uncle. The movie also has great cars.
Traitor (movie) - 33s and 75s in abundance.
I know there are more, but those will do for a start.
Could any period »Fiat« commercial with mentioned Rémy Julienne qualify?
Altough more relaxed-physics-oriented, there's couple of fun parts in Italian-French »I gendarmi di Saint-Tropez«-»Le Gendarme (de Saint-Tropez)« films series with Louis De Funès, but primarily I appreciate that franchise for lot od beatiful and legendary cars involved. Probably my favourite childhood foreign classic movie comedy, hugely popular in Yugoslavia.
This said, De Funès acted in »L'aile ou la cuisse« and »Fantômas« series, also with couple of chases.
Yeah, those De Funés movies were super-fun to watch, and very much my taste, given they feature Citroens!
Tutti quelli in cui c'è l'indimenticabile Maurizio Merli.
Eh si. Un grande, che faceva molti degli stunt personalmente, senza controfigura. I suoi film sono decisamente i miei preferiti del genere, sono d'accordo!
'Brutal Naples'. The protagonist playing by Maurizio Merli, is a policeman on Alfetta, chasing criminals on a motorcycle. Through the busy streets of Naples.
'The Professional'. Hero of Jean-Paul Belmondo on a Fiat skillfully hides from the security forces on a Peugeot. The film is not Italian, but with very strong Italian accents. From the Italian roots of Belmondo, to the masterpieces of Morricone. And both Peugeot and Fiat are already relatives
What a great idea! More please! Close to your examples are the many great scenes from the original version of The Italian Job. Did they really thrash a Miura? And what about those Jaguar E-types? Obviously my favorite scenes tend to contain Citroen DS's, although it always pains me when one actually gets thrashed. As an example of an actually Italian movie I'd like to point out Diabolik (again with some jummy E-types included). Furthermore: Who could ever forget what Louis de Funes did to cars in french movies, again including many a DS. Then there are all those 60ties, mostly equally cheap and cheerful, Europsy movies. Let's also not forget the De Gaule assassination attempt scene from the original Day Of The Jackal. I could go on for hours but if I have to point out only one scene it however has to be the chase in Ronin, in which an XM outpaces several cars, among them a whole pack of supposedly superior German ones. Am I too much of a fan or is that XM really behaving much more stable then the rest? :-)
I'm glad you liked this unusual video topic. Sometimes a random idea comes up, and becomes a video. After all, publishing every week does take some creativity :)
Ronin is a masterpiece, as it was The Italian Job in its genre. Luis De Funes' movies are awesome too, I agree!
Great video, thanks. BTW, did I hear you say Ford Transit at 2.54? which it clearly isn't. A non-Italian made film but one that features a short chase with a Fiat 130 saloon and also a Alfa Guilia (both have a sad ending unfortunately) is "The Mechanic" from 1972 with Charles Bronson.
Well it actually is a Ford Transit van. But not from that main Transit line. It is its predecessor Ford FK 1000/1250 known on some markets as Ford Taunus Transit or simply Ford Transit.
@@vojtara Ah ok, I stand corrected. That model was never sold in the UK market. I didn't even recognise it as a Ford.
@g 928 Yes, It was manufactured in West Germany. In UK you had plenty of other relatively good vans, Bedfords, Ford Thames... In continental Europe 50's and 60's were in the rythm of VW Transporter boxer ramble. Slow as hell, no heating, impractical with engine in back. Also there were minor things like Alfa Romeo Romeo, interesting but unsuccesful. When Ford decided to merge its UK market with the rest of Europe, suddenly british built Transits were everywhere and they were really good. So good in fact, that it took VW till 1990 to finally make good enough van to cope with them.
Apparently, Gianni Agnelli, who was something of a genius, saw the potential and offered the producers Fiat 500s to replace the Minis. The then-British Leyland, with characteristic charm and acumen, insisted the makers paid for the cars they used. But the producers felt the Mini was essential to the movie and reluctantly turned Agnelli down - and helped make the Mini a style icon. Agnelli, however, was still very helpful and - as Turin's most famous citizen before Giorgio Armani arrived - helped smooth the way for location filming and made sure Fiats were in almost every shot!
I wouldn't go as far as calling Agnelli a genius, but he indeed was very helpful with the production: without his support, they wouldn't have had access to the Lingotto's roof and they wouldn't have been able to shoot the jump scene between two buildings, as that was shot in the Mirafiori factory area, dressed-up to look like an urban street :)
Ronin bmw M5 chase.
European vacation with Chevy Chase in Rome
I don't know the Name of the movie but its also an Italian one. The chase begins with people being shot and a child gets kidnapped by the Bad guys in an Opel Diplomat and the dad of the child has a Fiat 1100 Taxi and chases them. It's also from the 70s i think. Can you Help me out on this one?
Ouch, that's one I haven't seen I'm afraid. Can't recall the scene...
Mark il poliziotto spara per primo a great chase between alfa and lancia
Agree!
The Blues Brothers. 100 cop cars after the Blues Brothers who are on a mission from God! "Use Of Unneccessary Force Has Been Approved!"
A la semaine prochaine !!
Why did italian commercial vehicles have a red diagonal stripe over the radiator/ front?
That has to do with Italian legislation. That red stripe identified the van as a vehicle used to transport stuff relative to the owner's business i.e. not transporting stuff on someone else's behalf.
@@Matteo_Licata thanks! I noticed that when I was researching the 1958 italian elections "vota comunista" Sputnik-van. Couldn't figure out what it was. Any clue? That would make a great video!
@@pseixaspal I looked it up, as I had never seen it. The pics available don't show the badge and the vehicle is, obviously, a coachbuilt special. Given its wheel design and general proportions, I'd say it was based on a Fiat 1100T
@@Matteo_Licata I can only find 3 different photos of this van. Looks great!
Ronin
There's a pretty good one in 'Un uomo da rispettare' or 'The Master Touch'
czcams.com/video/3bwq9Uqfdbc/video.html
That's brilliant!!! And one of the actors was Italian: Giuliano Gemma
Ha Ha got you there, I can recommend this film to everybody, it is full of action and it is very cruel in some parts : (1973) La Polizia incrimina, la legge assolve. (I don't even know what it means)
It plays in Genua and 9 years ago when I bought my Renault R8S in Italy near Aquapendiente I first had to go to Genua because there was a ship that needed some supplies and repairs from our company, it struck me that I recognized still a lot of places where the film was shot, this is one of the films that made a great impression on me, I sometimes look up the car chase which is also done by Remy Julienne and his French team. If I remember well, there was a blue FIAT 125 driven by the mafiosi and they kill the daughter of the police inspector by running her down with that FIAT, the shot is great, you see a close up of one wheel of the FIAT and the shining hubcap, the girl's face, playing innocently and all of a sudden the wheel of the FIAT spins like hell and they run her down, killing that little girl, I still get goose bumps from that scene !
This film was released in the Godfather era and it does bear some resemblance with the Godfather, it is equally cruel sometimes. And the music is great !
Here's the car chase from that film : czcams.com/video/W7CM_GcJ2FM/video.htmlr,
Yes, I was considering adding that chase to the video as well! You bought a R8 in Italy? Now I'm curious... Can you tell me more?
la@@Matteo_Licata I was checking Autoscout for a Renault 4, oneof my first cars when I saw a familiar dashboard : the Renault 8S, the seller lived near Acquapendente a beautiful place and for work (marine safety world) I had to go to Genova anyway, so we took the truck with trailer and drove down there and I bought the car for a price which could not be true ! The car is original paint and 4 headlights it belonged to an old man who bought it new when in his seventies.
Is is still on italian plates, I love the licence plate Roma H74787 and the dealer sticker from Roma. The car's name is Augusto after its original owner It is not a real mint car as it lived in Rome but it is 100% original! Can send you pictures if you want.
@@Rammstein56 Wow, that's a fantastic story! Yes, I'd love to see pics of it: my email is info@roadster-life.com thank you!!!