another good car movie with some cool "chase" scenes was a movie made in the early 80's called "King of the Mountain" it had Dennis Hopper and Mark Hamlin and had a ton of cool cars including a 69 Mach 1, a 63-67 vette and an early Porsche Speedster. one of my favorite car movies of all time.I have a tape of that movie that I taped off HBO a zillion years ago. I drag it out every now and again just to watch the Mulholland drive stuff. My goal is to take my fastback to Mulholland someday and put a video camera in the car as I drive the whole length. One of the guys I work with used to live in L.A. and he thinks I'm nuts, but after reading about that stretch of road for years, I gotta do it. Anyway, the actor in the 356 Porsche was Harry Hamlin, not Mark. Also, remember the scene where Dan Hagerty calls Hamlin into his office and shows him a photo of himself? I swear it looks like he's sitting in a '65 Shelby Mustang in the photo. I wish I had it on DVD so I could zoom in, maybe someday I'll find it on DVD.
another good car movie with some cool "chase" scenes was a movie made in the early 80's called "King of the Mountain" it had Dennis Hopper and Mark Hamlin and had a ton of cool cars including a 69 Mach 1, a 63-67 vette and an early Porsche Speedster. one of my favorite car movies of all time.I have a tape of that movie that I taped off HBO a zillion years ago. I drag it out every now and again just to watch the Mulholland drive stuff. My goal is to take my fastback to Mulholland someday and put a video camera in the car as I drive the whole length. One of the guys I work with used to live in L.A. and he thinks I'm nuts, but after reading about that stretch of road for years, I gotta do it. Anyway, the actor in the 356 Porsche was Harry Hamlin, not Mark. Also, remember the scene where Dan Hagerty calls Hamlin into his office and shows him a photo of himself? I swear it looks like he's sitting in a '65 Shelby Mustang in the photo. I wish I had it on DVD so I could zoom in, maybe someday I'll find it on DVD.
that's what i get for posting late i guess. yes Harry Hamlin is correct i have no idea who Mark Hamlin is, LOL.
for some reason i always confuse 2 people when i'm typing, i seem to that a lot lately. i was probably thinking about Mark Hamil and "Corvette Summer" when i typed that and combined their names. i do that a lot with Bill Goldberg as well and sometimes call him Steve Goldberg, combining his name and Steve Austin's i guess. probably has something to do with getting older LOL
When I first read your post, I thought you'd gotten Mark Hamill mixed up with Harry Hamlin. Mark Hamill did "Corvette Summer" which is another cool, if goofy, car movie. I hear he made a few bucks later doing some series of sci-fi flicks with the guy who drove the black '55 on "American Grafitti". Never saw them myself, but evidently someone did...
I just didn't get it. You see the car jump, then start spinning out in slow motion. Then it goes back, and you see the car make the jump again, and keep going.
I understand Halicki was excited about putting all those amazing stunts on film, but didn't he realize that was just confusing and bad for continuity? Why not just show the spin out during the credits at the end?
Then when I saw Vanishing Point for the second time a few years ago, all I could think about was "why didn't he just stop in the first place?".
he especially hated the "it takes a mopar to catch a mopar" line, in fact he was downright pissed off about it.
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