HELICOPTER vs CAR - chase from "Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry" - '74 - HQ

Another '70s chase movie where the actors were allowed to do most of their own stunts (it wouldn't happen today).

Peter (70 in a couple of months!) Adam and Susan are actually IN that car and Vic Morrow takes his life in his hands (and STILL manages to ACT!) in the chopper.

Footnote: in a cruel twist of fate, eight years later, Vic and two kids would be KILLED by a chopper FALLING on them, during the making of "Twilight Zone: The Movie" ('82).

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• helicopter
• car
• chase
• Dirty
• Mary
• Crazy
• Larry
• Peter
• Fonda
• Susan
• George
• Adam
• Roarke
• Vic
• Morrow

[Kinemacolour]

They're not going very fast.

[disparatedan]

@Kinemacolour - Speed ain't everything! As has been pointed out by another commenter - flat out, the car could easily have outrun the chopper - but in the movie, Fonda's character was more interested in PLAYING with the Sheriff than merely LOSING him!!

[stybarrow]

those Chargers could do 140mph+ . it would have been a better scene if Fonda had opened up that 440ci and given that chopper a bit more competition.

[disparatedan]

@stybarrow - In a straight line, the Jetranger would never have been able to keep up with it!

[crazyracer12]

I hate the way this Charger got mashed up, then destroyed. D:

[gravelrob1]

I love this type of flying.

[DownRange1776]

I love this movie and both Vanishing Points the original and remake both great.

[joten70]

thats some amaxing piloting ^_^

[doacarnage]

Lots of People talkin bout the Charger outrunning that chopper...easily?? I owned a 1970 Dodge Charger 440 4spd and 3.23:1 gears. I took it up over 145 MPH several times so it is possible, BUT could not sustain these speeds for a long time as rpms were 5500+. This was also done on Interstate 5, a very flat and level concrete highway. Someone also mentioned a 200mph top speed on the Charger? hahahahaa Only the most stout and fully race prepped Hemi Daytonas and Superbirds reach those speeds.

[69sexyLEGS]

i want to press the dislike button cuz they wrecked the car !!

[TheForwardGaze]

I remember sneaking into the theater to see this when I was a kid. We thought this movie was so cool.

[SanAntonio78210]

@Kinemacolour kids these days!!!

[lheard8664]

wish I had this on DVD

great movie

[colts1948]

I used to drag from stoplight to stoplight. Missed a gear and still be the hemi. One time I had my family with me and the clutch began to slip. In trying to get them home I floored it in fourth and it was only going about ten,shearing off the fan into the radiator. That was power.

[TheJer1963]

@colts1948 I would have rather had the 426 Hemi in that 68 Charger myself. They destroyed 2 of the Chargers making this movie. I could have used the deck lid off of one of them back in 79. The 440 Magum was cool but as I say, I would have went with the Hemi from the factory that you could have ordered. Almost forgot, they destroyed a 69 Charger making this movie to.

That 440 Magnum came with 375HP back then.