The BOAT CHASE from "Puppet On A Chain" - '70 - HQ

Chases were EXCITING in the Seventies. No digital and none of that MTV editing - they just WENT for it! This piece is "Bullitt" on water. They even let their actors do much of their own driving. It wouldn't happen today...

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• boat
• chase
• stunts
• Amsterdam
• Vladek
• Sheybal
• Puppet
• On
• Chain

[leftcoaster67]

Isn't it the guy who played Kronstien in "From Russia With Love"?

[davidwrightatloppers]

@leftcoaster67 The very same (see another comment reply I made, below). Originally from Poland, Vladek Sheybal played UMPTEEN "mittle-European" characters in British and European film and TV productions, during the Sixties. He was COOL. If it wasn't him, it was usually Tutte Lemkow, from Norway.

[riggerz05]

A very exciting sequence from a film that is otherwise on the disappointing side. The book is awesome... interestingly, there is no boat chase in the book at all!! Nice seeing this scene again, though... it's been a long time since I saw it last!

[davidwrightatloppers]

Agreed! It's been YEARS since I read the book - along with all the REST of Alistair MacLean's novels - but I recall they were all pretty GOOD (although they all have the same elements - a guy who's more important than he seems, enduring extreme cold or other uncomfortable conditions, etc.)

And from what I remember, the film IS rather ponderous - relieved only by this BONZA chase sequence!

[TVFREAKMAN]

@davidwrightatloppers

It is the best boat chase sequence in any movie I've seen. Sort of makes the subsequent boat chase sequence in the bond movie "Live and Let Die" seem like a tugboat race!

Speaking of bond, is the bad guy the same actor who played the russian agent that got stabbed with the poison shoe dagger in "From Russia with Love"? Just wondering

[davidwrightatloppers]

@TVFREAKMAN - The villain here was played by Vladek Sheybal, a great actor who often played shady middle- and east-Europeans, in the Sixties. He was definitely IN "From Russia With Love" - so I suspect you are correct. However, "From Russia..." is the Bond film I have seen LEAST - and so honestly, I cannot recall. But I DO remember Lotte Lenya as the evil old lady you didn't want kicking you!!

[jeffp1234]

I first watched this as a kid and it started my obsession with speed boats. Still looks fantastic after all these years

[leftcoaster67]

Next time, use a Mossberg. LOL

[TMS320C5505]

I always remember this film as an example of how you can understimate people. The leader of the drug gang is someone you would not think capable of being the leader.

[colinclarke1000]

Much better than the speedboat Chase in Amsterdamned...

[Rhubba]

It becomes even more awesome with the 1911 filter on it

[saanzacs]

Could that be THE boat chase that started it all?