This is one of the all time great movie car chases along with the Steve mcqueen car chase in the movie Bullet driving the gorgeous V8 Ford Mustang.... In this clip apart from the 2 beautiful jaguars you also see a red MGA roadster on the streets of London at the start of the chase absolutely awsome 👍
That's a Healey - look at the bonnet vent and the chrome finisher along the top of the door. Great fun identifying all the cars in old films - nice to see the Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud too.
Just listening to those roaring straight sixes and blaring siren is enough to give me goosebumps! And to think this was directed by the same man who directed Bullitt!
I think that Steve McQueen, the actor who had a penchant for fast motors, noted this filmed car chase and was persuaded that Yates was the man to direct his film in San Francisco..
This car chase scene ends at "Quentin Pope School". According to IMDb, this was actually George Eliot Primary School in London NW8. I spent 1967/68 at that school, so I was there around when this movie was shot. I recognise the school entrance, there was a small concrete playground where we played football at break. Very alien for a kid from Swaziland, where we had vast grass playing fields. I have no recollection of anyone talking about this film. Anyone who may remember George Eliot Junior Mixed from that era, I would be really interested.
Back in the 1960s I was a young PC in the pre-Canary Wharf docklands of London's East End and was the R/T operator aboard the Jaguar 3.4 S type depicted in this excitingly filmed pursuit. A couple of caveats about the car in these shots. The blue lamp was closer to the windscreen on the car I recall, whilst the dashboard was a more functional black metal rather than the walnut style seen briefly in this clip. It certainly looked the part, although its drivers complained of a tendency for sudden unnerving brake-fade in extended high speed usage on often greasy cobbled streets that left little room for error.
Can you explain a little More please You were the guy in the back leaning over saying head then off at Lancaster gate? Guess it wasn't a genuine police jaguar used in this film because met police had black painted dashboards All information would be gladly read by me and others regards Adam
@@User-wollswoycegawage The role I occupied as part of the crew of Hotel Three - the area wireless car for the Limehouse district of 1960s dockland London - varied between the R/T operator in the front passenger seat and the observer (in civvies) occupying the rear seat. The latter was a uniformed PC temporarily out of uniform for the purpose. The call sign attributed to the police Jaguar here is fictional. Area wireless cars were given call signs that reflected the divisional letter plus single numbers. For example, a C division car (covering the West End) would be Charlie One - and so on, depending on the number of such cars employed on that division 24/7. Local knowledge was a huge advantage for a crew of these police patrol vehicles but pursuits were always done with the restraint of awareness of the danger to other road users - graphically illustrated in the finale of this particular chase sequence. Fleeing villains recognised no such inhibitions! A further comment - worth mentioning - was the concern of the drivers of these cars that they could suffer worrying brake fade at crucial times...hardly conducive to peace of mind even when the driver was a Class One (top) police wheelman. But, by golly, they certainly looked the part! The predecessor of the Jag. was the big Wolseley 6/110, and I still recall the driver (who strapped for the Flying Squad), with his finger tips playing its big steering wheel like a pianist as he aimed its substantial bulk through to impossibly (to me) narrow gaps on an emergency call, You don't forget such experiences easily!.
@@songsmith31a fantastic reply I was born 71 and love watching old films for the cars I do have a MK2 3.8 Jag Same as the one used in this film gunmetal grey red leather Another vehicle used in robberies was a MK1 transit I have a swb with sliding doors I'm not a bank robber or villan just love the cars And love the stories My friend has a collection of Westminsters, vanden plas 3 litre and Wolsey 6110 Non of his ex police There is a clip on RU-vid of someone chases a mk8 or mk9 Jag With a 6110 he loses control spinning Definitely wasn't ment to happen while filming ( look it up) Old cross ply tyres spun right round Thanks for your detailed reply Regards Adam
Brilliant from start to finish, the car chase scene alone is Unmissable,prper villains and those Jags...well done Peter Yates for directing this as well as 'Bullitt' 2 cinema classics... Watch it everytime it comes on the box.. I would love to see this at the Cinema, I can imagine movie fans must have went back a few times to appreciate this masterpiece. The camera shots, and especially from inside the gangs getaway car..
The Quentin Pope school crash scene was close to the junction of Boundary Road and Marlborough Hill NW8, and the actual train robbery was shot near Theddingworth, Leicestershire (within one mile of my home when I was just 18 months old). The railway line was closed immediately after the film was made but the closest signal box survives as a garden feature about 1/2 mile up the track, and the roadbridge still stands.
P.S. This excerpt omits the scene in which the police jag. reverses back into shot, with its crew seeing and understanding that something iffy is happening. A neat intro. to the chase that follows.
One of the few films to mainly have jaguar cars both police and the criminal fraternity. Yes, a brief shot of the Bedford CA van and Ford Zephyr MK4 police vehicles .
If you have TPTV this movie is shown from time to time, or maybe ITV 1,2,3,4, OR possibly Film 4.. I know these movies are shown on random stations ,but hope this helps.
