Jammin' Jay was one of my faves back in the day when i used to race. Them Team Associated cars were a packet too..lol now even more expensive thanks to the hipsters..lol
That little RC car sure flies pretty good when it goes in the air and lands better then those cars that the killer was driving and Harry Callahan was driving .
Very clever scene. The only thing that might've made it just a touch funnier would be if the R/C car were the same model and color as the actual car driven by the bad guy. (The vehicular equivalent of a "mini-me," as 'twere.)
4:14 Harry's partner: "We're trapped! Let's get out and shoot the bad guy and his little car too." Harry: "No, let's just sit here and see where he's going with this."
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 Indeed, it was serious for some time and dark. I love 70s San Francisco atmosphere and the music's majestic and the opening just gets right into the film when Harry's theme starts playing.
*@twoeightythreez* Backroom dealings to promote a GM product in the film. Even Harry's Olds Cutlass. The cars could have been donated to the film through a local GM dealer
@@maxman1602 It's beside the point, of course. But everytime I think about _The Dead Pool,_ this part of the movie comes to mind. For the killer just having his hand on the wheel of that Monte Carlo while having his other hand on the joystick of the R/C controller is hilarious! Applause for the director's sense of humor 🤣! !
I used to live on that street where they blew up the car. Clementina Street in SF. I remember not being able to go home from school because they were filming.
back then, maybe, but today, with huge 1/5th scale and larger? this would be a much more fun chase if it was something like a Traxxas UDR or something similar. watching it launch off the roads.....
I can't help but notice the protective skid plates mounted under the chassis of both cars for the jump scenes, especially when they show the Olds in slow motion.
Do you remember that show with Lee majors when he jumped that big truck he was a retired stuntman and like bounty Hunter him and his partner had that big 4x4 truck and they would jump it in the front suspension broke that was on the title of the show I thought that'd be a good job they're always breaking those cars plenty of work saw your post thank you
This "car chase" had me rolling on the floor laughing! We went from psycho snipers based on the Gemini Killer to remote control car bomb chases! I love how over the top this movie is and it has easily become my favorite for its balls to the wall insanity!
@@ToyotaGuy1971 I remember that too. The scene in the Clint Eastwood video is from 1988. I was 10 years old and had a radio shack porsche. It was then I realized that there was a different level of rc car that I had to have.
I can only imagine how incredibly difficult it would be to drive a car and operate an R/C at the same time. Negotiating pedestrians on the foot path, jumping over banana boxes and the like.
There is no way in hell as funny as this scene is, to drive the car 🚘 and remote R/C at the same time. Why Harry didn’t just get out of his car 🚗 and just blow the r/c is away is beyond me.
👌Craziest funniest scene in all hollywood, IMO. Only thing else this nuts is blazing saddles, silver streak, & maybe robocop 2. (the drug-addicted cyborg)
I always liked this scene as a kid. Even back then the explosion was way too over the top to survive. They probably realized that when the explosion went off and just had to go with the shot for budget reasons.
Emmerson Bigguns got the little toy car got blown up during the car scene with Clint Eastwood Clint Eastwood himself Dirty Harry never had time to get out of the car and neither did that other cop that was with
You try out running this little car when is chasing you in an in your car and see how well you get away with it and you make sure it's not loaded with something like a bomber something that's coming after you why it's coming after I call it a little Vengeance car
You are a douchebag twatwaffle. Any car on the road is prettier than the ugly plastic bubbles they make now. I had a Olds like the one Clint is driving they were great cars. Go get treated for your STDs they have hit your brain.
@@DA90027 the guy who lived next to me had one of those Oldsmobiles. One day it just quit on him. Turns out the computer overheated cause they’d placed it in the engine bay. Another time he had a rope around the car. Turns out his drivers door actually fell off in a parking lot. It’s one thing to be assigned to drive that car at work. It’s another matter to actually buy one with your own money. Now maybe yours had its doors attached better. But the door falling off? There’s no QC excuse for that
@@matthewcaughey8898 I had one when it was 30 years old never broke down on me. Had anither one 10 years ago drove great and only time it did is when the battery died.
I believe RCCA magazine did an article about the car and the movie in 1988. They modified a few RC10s and used a 1963 Parma body. The technical advisor and 'stunt driver' was a member of Team Associated. The legendary, Jammin' Jay Harris.
a 1/10 scale RC car like that, even today, would weigh about 18 pounds. Back in the 80's, more like 24. Ever had 24 pounds of crap hitting you while going 40+mph? It's like trying to catch a large sack of potatoes thrown from a 4th floor balcony. That's not "bumping into you", that's breaking your shin.
The amount of skillset you must have to control an R/C car and know what's in front of it without actually seeing it but also driving a real car at the same time isind blowing. That man must have a six sense
I remember this scene from 40 years ago when the film was released. SO RIDICULOUS. A) No way the signal carries that far B) City streets aren't "pool table smooth"...that car flips over after about 10 seconds.
I have a cheap RC receiver I use in my combat robot. Only cost $11 on ebay. With a cheapish transmitter and direct line of sight (assuming full batteries) the stats say it can work up to 3 miles away. I've tested mine at well over half a mile at ground level, with houses in the way, and it works.
@@Ryvucz True, True. However, was the bad guy's car ever more than a block away from his RC car? My 80's RC car could do that, and it was a cheap box-store special.
The r/c car would have run out of battery power. There would be no space in the car for a bomb as well as the battery, motor and r/c controls. A bomb the size of that car couldn't make an explosion that big. It just doesn't have legs
An earlier scene the guy getting into his car to play tennis was none other than the late great Mr. Bill Wattenberg radio talk show host from KGO 810 AM San Francisco. Also Jim Carrey had his movie debut in this film as the rockstar playing Axel Rose.
Amazing battery and expl0sive this little car carries and the amazing skill this guy can control a little car while chasing in high speed... compared with this guy, Harry is really a kid!
When Clint saw the script he must have thought...’ are you serious..?... a toy car going as fast as a normal car.... oh well as long as I get paid for this piece of shite...’😂😂😂
It was faster, the driver had to slow it down because it was going too fast in the original takes. It was an Associated RC10. Electric, off road buggy. The scene with the kids shows a stock version.
It was actually and electric car and they added the nitro car audio. When the radios get crossed up the fact the car goes back and forth is a dead giveaway that it’s electric.
Going at those speeds (about 14-20 mph) a car about an 18th the size of a real car, like that RC car, is like a real life car going anywhere from 250 to 350 mph.
no, its like real life car going at 14-20mph and rest of the speed of the scale model will be used up to cover the distance which is the length of the real car.
Microvita Music - no, it's like a real car going 80 mph if the toy car rides on the sidewalk and into a grocery store. The car in pursuit is the real toy car, and Harry's car is like a bicycle but a really fast bicycle. By the time Harry's bicycle reaches the speed of the the toy car, it would be impossible to go downhill.
In 1940 the British were constructing Fougasse to stop a possible German invasion. It's a half-buried barrel/pipe with grenades at the bottom, cans of petrol and then any random scrap metal on top.
That was OLD San Francisco. Nowadays, the streets don't get that void of traffic until about 3AM. You couldn't even dream of driving like that without getting stuck behind some immigrant or double-parked delivery person.
I have an '89 Oldsmobile Regency 98 Brougham. It has the 3.8 v6 with the 4 speed overdrive automatic transmission. The engine harness has been redone and it needs the fluids dumped. But it would probably run after that One of many car projects I need to finish. lol
This has got to be the one of the best Damm movies ever made I remember going to see this 2 times just to see this scene now I can watch it as many times as I want .. Thank you..
The first time I saw this movie, I saw it in summer of '89 on cable t.v. From that point on, I fell in love with this scene. "Shoot to Kill" is another great movie from 1988. Starring Sidney Poitier and Tom Berenger.
I'm watching this scene now on AMC. It's really silly because they could have easily just gotten out of the car, but that's not very exciting. Anyway, the remote control car was fun to watch.
That's some cool RC especially for those days. The controllers weren't anything like today. And they made that little car cool and menacing looking. It even had Callahan scared. But how the heck did they not get killed?
This scene really put me off being chased through town by an explosives filled RC car. Beforehand I was fairly ambivalent to the prospect, but now, not so much...
That's RC-10!! And many people who are into RC today would not understand the context here. This is the era way back when there was no 2.4GHz and you had to stay in your band (frequency) specified by a crystal.
It was an electric off-road buggy (RC10, the scene with the kids shows a stock version. The body was just an off-the-shelf one you could get in hobby shops at the time.
Brilliant film scene this, remember being on the edge of my seat watching this, love the way Harry senses that the little car meant danger straight away, superb !!
Thought it was a bit odd how there was no smoke & that it reversed but it had nitro rc car sounds lol. turns out it was a electric track car when i went through the article. I do like the RC10 buggy seen in the clip that the kids use first. Guessing this corvette was simply a similar chassis but made into a road car like kyosho did with one of their platforms later.
The RC10 is a Epic Old school TEAM ASSOCIATE buggy! I think they did a RE-RE but im not 100% on that as Im a TAMIYA fan Boy from the 80ś. There are much better buggy's available these days , I collect vintage stuff but I do have three losi xxx bk2 buggies and they handle so much better than any of my vintage cars.
