@@Charleybones I believe he left it in gear with the parking brake on, and he reaches in and releases that, which is why it jumps. I had a Tremec 5 speed that you could put in second and it wouldn't die if you put your foot on the brake with no gas. I used it that way for parades.
@@davidzornig1319 Right, in this car the parking brake handle is the left of the driver, so when Burt reached in at the wharf, that is what he pulled up. It had nothing to do with the gear shifter.
Whats great is that even during the soundtrack cut-outs by the sirens and squealing tires, Saturday Night Special was still on point when it’d cut back in to the scene. Fuckin great.
Yes it is. Kind of reminds me of me. I used to have a serious relationship with a girl that liked to yell at me and put me down (Lynyrd Skynyrd is my favorite band by the way)I would leave while she'd still be hollering at me-and she always threatened to call the cops on me for whatever reason- and I'd get in my car and the first thing I'd do was put on some classic rock. Usually Skynyrd because their music really helped me through some bad times. So I definitely relate to this scene. The only difference is I've never been physically violent to anyone especially women unless of course I gave to protect myself. Oh also I relate to the fact that I even used to smoke those cigar cigarettes that he's puffing on when he dumps the car. Lol
There's more realism in the stunts in this three-minute opening clip than there are in most movies today. Stunt driving and car chases like this have, unfortunately, become a thing of the past. Burt did his own driving in this scene, too. Burt! Love the laugh!
@@Bigsmoke-so9vo You're not kidding. At least we still have (to a degree) Lynyrd Skynyrd today, and thank goodness the Citroen SM is gone from our shores. It was a heap when it was new and the French thought that the US would give them exemptions from our standards. Nope and they had to stop importing them. Burt did the right thing here in this one (pollution and littering the water aside). The Skynyrd song was written to be used in the movie from what I've read, although as most know singer Ronnie Van Zant died in the 1977 plane crash.
He would have been very unhappy if someone p-- on his rug and stole his tape deck and C.C.R. tapes. Oops, thinking of some other 'Dude' who went bowling.
This car chase shows some history in Savannah and Brunswick, Georgia. Seen in this scene is the Forsyth Park Fountain, still in Savannah, but the old Sidney Lanier vertical lift bridge in Brunswick is no longer and has been replaced by the newer Sidney Lanier Suspension bridge. Groovy stuff.
Burt can be seen driving through a boarded up chain-link fence onto Broughton Street and then down Bull Street into Forsyth Park past the famous fountain and then taking the corner from Victory Drive onto Skidaway and then turning into the parking beside the Krispy Kreme doughnut place that I ordered from many times in my youth (which still exists in the same spot) as I only lived about a mile away on Bonaventure. And when Burt is shown hitting the shopping cart in front of the Eckert Drugs parking lot, I'm pretty sure that was shot in the K-Mart shopping center about 100 yards behind the Krispy Kreme. In "Gator," Burt would film the truck flip onto the beach scene (which broke Hal Needham's back) in the same area where the Tybee Island Pier is today, which was about a mile from my grandfather's house.
@@johnard611 The Savannah Historic Foundation is pretty strict, so I'm surprised they allowed a car to tear _through_ Forsyth Park like that. Film crews are pretty good about leaving things as they found them, but watching this just now for the first time in decades and having forgotten a lot of it, it surprised me to see this. My brother is buried in Bonaventure cemetery so we stopped at that same Krispy Kreme many times when I was a kid visiting his grave.
@@zyrrhos I'm sorry to hear that you lost your brother, especially when you were young. It seems like the Historic Foundation was around back then, but perhaps the mayor or someone else in the city government quashed any concerns about damaging historical landmarks. Mayor John Rousakis would have a small role in Gator, Burt Reynolds' next movie filmed in Savannah.
It's the Citreon hydropneumatic suspension. The driver can rise or lower the body, hence harden or soften the ride. The glass Reynolds lays on the center console actually refers to the Citroen suspension system, about which it was said that a glass could be left full while driving and it would never spill.
Driving while gulping a crystal glass of vodka, outsmarting the police with relative ease, and even has time to casually light up a cigarette before dumping the car. Just to be super duper cool! Love this scene.
Burt thought his best acting was in "Deliverance" I think he was pretty damn good in this, I also re-watched Boogie Nights, just before he died, and he should have won the best supporting actor Oscar for that, I hope now some of his films and his acting get another look.
Jack LINDEN wasn’t designed by Pininfarina, it was designed by Robert Opron as mentioned by a previous commenter who worked for Citroen in the 70s. A beautiful looking car all the same.
For all of you that argue how did he get a manual drive itself into the river I will explain it to you. Citroen back them made a gear box that it had the practicality of an auto and the excitement of a manual. The ds used to have it. You could sift gears without pressing the clutch at all
Like the Beetle in Bullitt, that Belvedere gets in the chase more than once. Playmate at beginning was a Price is Right model later. Sandler couldn't hold Burt's jock. Rest in peace, Dan August ✊😔
That was a real car that got from the car maker just for this movie. It was fully loaded. That got it free if they pluged it during the movie. It really ended up in the bay. Some guy brought it as soon as they got it out of the water.
COLEY FOLEY SAYS: ON AGAIN ON FUCKIN "CINEMAX" RIGHT NOW! (YEAH, YEAH, YEAH...! HAHAHA!----GOTTA LOVE THAT FUCKIN "LYNYRD SKYNYRD'S" ON THE FUCKIN RADIO IN THIS SCENE TOO... HAHAHA!)
"Saturday Night Special" Best of My '74 Movie Faves. Simply #SignatureMustache Buddy Burt (Paul "Wrecking" Crewe) RIP Legend (2/11/36 - 9/6/18) Credit #ParamountPictures #70sOldSchool AND #LynyrdSkynyrd
As others have asked - how did he conveniently just reach into the stopped car and get it to fly off the dock at high speed? What magic power achieved that?
GreenCanvasInteriorscape Yes, you could do that. My dad collected foreign cars from this era. They did all kid of unusually things. That American made cars did not do. But that car a manual. You can see him shifting gears many times in the car.
