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On a Friday night in Chicago, mobster Johnny Ross briefly meets his brother, Pete, after fleeing the Outfit.The next morning, Lieutenant Frank Bullitt of the San Francisco Police Department, along with his team, Delgetti and Stanton, are tasked by U.S. Senator Walter Chalmers with guarding Ross over the weekend, until he can be presented as a witness to a Senate subcommittee hearing on ...
As with Bullitt, The French Connection (also produced by Bullitt's producer, Philip D'Antoni) is famed for its car-chase sequence. What differs from the usual car chase is that Hackman's character is chasing an elevated train from the street below (the scene was filmed in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, with most of the action taking place on 86th Street).
His stunt driving in the 1958 film Thunder Road was considered groundbreaking for its realism. [3] He had an uncredited stunt driver role in the seminal 1966 auto racing film Grand Prix. Loftin served as the uncredited stunt coordinator for the 1968 film Bullitt, which included one of the most influential car chase scenes in film history.
When he had the opportunity to drive in a movie, he performed many of his own stunts, including some of the car chases in Bullitt and the motorcycle chase in The Great Escape. [54] Although the jump over the fence in The Great Escape was done by Bud Ekins for insurance purposes, McQueen did have considerable screen time riding his 650 cc ...
'Ferrari' features a car crash scene that's based on real-life events. Here’s what to know about the tragic crash and why it almost sent Enzo Ferrari to prison.
The parents of a Tesla driver, who was crushed to death in a horrifying accident, filed a lawsuit against the electric car manufacturer. Genesis Giovanni Mendoza-Martinez, 31, tragically lost his ...
Brainstorming about how “Trolls: Band Together” should look, the creatives decided they wanted to take the colorful creatures to a different world than the previous two installments of the ...
The Seven-Ups is a 1973 American neo-noir mystery action thriller film [3] produced and directed by Philip D'Antoni.It stars Roy Scheider as a crusading policeman who is the leader of the Seven-Ups, a squad of plainclothes officers who use dirty, unorthodox tactics to snare their quarry on charges leading to prison sentences of seven years or more upon prosecution, hence the name of the team.