Car Chase Friday: The Seven-Ups

This week's car chase is from The Seven-Ups (1973). I saw this when it came out, and I think I liked it, but I was 11 years old, so don't hold me to it being a good movie. It's a great chase, though, and that's what matters.

Here Roy Scheider is a cop chasing two cop-killing bad guys through the streets of New York. It's not San Francisco, but they do manage to find some little hills in a mini-homage to Bullitt (last week's Car Chase Friday clip). A lot of the same people from Bullitt actually worked on this too. But where Bullitt had cool cars and cool drivers, The Seven-Ups has (intentionally) lame cars and excitable drivers. (Some of the reaction shots of the bad-guy passenger are hilarious.) The results are excellent. Enjoy.

(Note that Scheider does a lot of under-his-breath muttered swearing. You can't really hear most of it, but you can usually tell what he's saying. Viewer beware.)