THE Most Memorable Handfights, Gunfights, Car Chases/Sequences (Vanity)

Myself ^ | 10/12/15 | A Navy Vet

[A Navy Vet]

Please keep your replies to a minimum and include the movie or TV show or real life news.

I'll start off with in no certain order;

Handfights: A toss up but lean towards "Fight Club".
Gunfights: "Open Range"
Car chases: "Fast & Furious" franchise.

[RoadieFan]

Best car chase....has to be Bullit, the classic Mustang vs Charger scene. And McQueen did much ,if not all, the stunt driving himself.

[RoadieFan]

Did McQueen do a lot of hte stunt driving ofthte Mustang himself?

[tet68]

Ok, best sword fight has to be any Zatoichi movie,
although Zatoichi’s Cane Sword, and Fight Zatoichi Fight
are two of the best.

[21twelve]

McCloud!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJkzmgPUBhQ

[stylin19a]

Fist Fight Scenes:

Best: Quiet Man - John Wayne\Victor Victor McLaglen

Toughest\Longest: They Live - Roddy Piper\Keith David

Underrated: John Wayne\Randolph Scott in 2 movies - The Spoilers and Pittsburgh

Gunfights:

The Wild Bunch, close seconds: The Professionals and the Magnificent 7 close behind.

Car Chases:

French Connection though Vanishing Point & The Italian Job were pretty good

[FreedomPoster]

You beat me to it. Certainly deserves consideration with the chases in the other more well-known movies mentioned earlier in the thread.

[Vendome]

7-Ups

Ronin

The Italian Job

[Vendome]

Best hand fight?

“What we have here is a failure to communicate”....

[A Navy Vet]

"They did an excellent job filiming that draw scene-"

Yes, after watching true life quick draw men over the years, the director did that scene well. Especially like how Doc twirled his gun and holstered it after shooting Ringo. BTW, do you know that didn't actually happen, although much of Tombstone is based in fact. Sometime after the "Vengence Ride", Ringo was found shot dead laying up against a tree. Speculation is that his cow-rustling days caught up with him or the Earp posse went back again.

Until I saw Tombstone and started researching the history, like most, I thought that the shootout was the only action from earlier movies. Turns out, the "Vengence Ride" was bigger than the shootout at Lot #42.

Sorry, folks, but it was not at the OK Corral, which was located on Fremont Street which was and is still the main street.
The shootout occurred around the corner on Allen Street in a vacant lot behind the OK Corral. Wikipedia has it wrong when they say it occurred 2 blocks away on Fremont Street. Nope.

I know because I stayed there 3 days and 2 nights while supporting the Minutemen back when. It is truly a one horse town and memorized every aspect of it, not to mention reading the 2 definitive books on the Earp saga with historical maps of the town included. The staged production of the shootout is scheduled every day for tourists on the same vacant lot on Allen Street where it occurred.

[A Navy Vet]

Thanks.

[Cvengr]

Best Handfight anthology:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6anGt4u2Aq0

I’m sortof partial to The Replacement Killers for shootouts. Outstanding editing for a low budget film.

I still like older car chase scenes like George C Scott in The Last Run in his BMW 503 Cabriolet, if we don’t consider the entire foray of Bond film classic chase scenes or the Fast and Furious/Gone in 60 Seconds series..

The Great Escape and Bullit were classic chase scenes (albeit the Black Charger in Bullit lost 6 hub caps, and that green VW keeps showing up no matter how fast the Highland Green Mustang Fastback GT and the Black Dodge Charger 440 R/T cruise over 110mph, go figure.)

Then again there’s the crazy demon possessed car/truck genre, (Christine, Duel, The Car, Death Race 2000, Mad Max series).

There still remain some classic other chase scenes, Smokey and The Bandit, The Seven-Ups, The French Connection, Vanishing Point, and this anthology:

Best Chase Scene:
http://nofilmschool.com/2015/07/tribute-car-chase-cinema-michael-mirasol

[headstamp 2]

He started to but was convinced to stop so the story goes.

Stunt driving is a totally different subject from auto racing. A stunt driver double did most of it in the Mustang.

Bill Hickman was the actual driver of the Charger and was also an actor. He is the one that Gene Hackman blows away at the very end of The French connection. He also drove the car chasing the subway under the EL line in NYC in that movie. He also drives the Pontiac that Roy Scheider chases in the Seven Ups. Phil D’Antoni got him for all three films.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Hickman

He was driving right behind James Dean when he had his fatal crash.

If you watch closely, he’s also in a scene with George C. Scott in Patton.

[Polynikes]

Gunfight - Alley scene “Collateral”
Hey Homie that my briefcase?

[Fellow Traveler]

Car chase “Running Scared” the chase ends up on the el.
Gunfight, not great but long “Mean Guns” basically a ninety minute gun fight with plenty of stabbings and beatings thrown in for good measure.
Fight has to be Pullo and vorenus against the executioners in”Rome”

[rwfok]

2 gunfights that ended with close melee:

The Patriot - ambush scene, “aim small, miss small”.

Last of the Mohicans - Chingachgook avenges Uncas.

[Cecily]

Another good car chase/race: James Woods and Jeff Bridges racing down Sunset Boulevard in “Against All Odds.”

[Daffynition]

Almost any Jerry Bruckheimer film.

My audition for a part in a Bruckheimer film. S'up.

[Bob434]

Ringo that’s his name- Yep- it was one of my favorite shootout scenes-

I went ot niagra falls once, and there they had the world’s fastest draw on video- Wow! The dude was so fast you couldn’t see anything but a blur- And he was accurate too

Dunno how real it was but also saw the current world’s fastest draw on TV shoot through a lifesaver hole with a really fast quick draw- could’ve been trick shooting, I dunno- but his draw was just a blur—

[[BTW, do you know that didn’t actually happen, ]]

No I didn’t- thanks for the info-

[Carthego delenda est]

Oh my! That scene reminds me of a narrowly missed crash I had when I’d only had my DL for about 2 months: I was driving a 70’s model Mustang and had a few friends in the car. It had just dumped about 10” of snow in the suburbs of Chicago. I was going down a street, very similar to the one in the clip you posted, and decided to get the car to fish tail a few times on the snow packed street. Well, the couple fish tails turned into 3, then 4, then 5 and got increasingly wider and wider as I started to lose control. I ended up sliding off the road into people’s yards that had about a foot of accumulated snow in them. The car was doing 360’s through the yards, being propelled by the existing momentum. I narrowly missed a fence (unlike your clip) and narrowly missed a yard light mounted on an iron pole. I slid through 3 yards, coming to a stop in a driveway that a man had just about finished shoveling the snow out of. He was standing there watching this spinning Mustang full of teenagers coming towards him, as it came to a stop in his driveway. The car was PERFECTLY lined up heading towards the street when it stopped. So I just put it back in first, drove to the street, and was on my way like it was nobody’s business! LOL!!!! I’ve often wondered what went through that guys head as he watched it all.

[Carthego delenda est]

“The Patriot - ambush scene, “aim small, miss small”.”

I’ll second that one! Excellent scene!