Firebrand You are right!!

You said it mate!!!

Pure class

The Fast and the Furious is a 1955 movie from director Rodger Corman. And none of these remakes (including the Italian Job) can hold a candle to the originals. That because in this era of dead creativity all they can do is mine the past for their "Ideas" rather than come up with new concepts and story lines. Western culture is dead and running on yesterdays momentum.

Amen

I also have a Boxster and was just thinking I should do the same thing!

Plus the gorgeous Rossano Brazzi

Not forgetting Raf Vallone as the Godfather.

Let's make movies, cars, actors, clothing, cool again!

Or Kingpin

Don't forget "Pulp fiction" opening scene in restaurant 👍

The 2010's in Europe! What an insanely horrifying time and place. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q9-oodiaybXdeHk.html

Oh boy your not kidding.

@@harveyvid name me a time where Europe wasn't a dangerous place

haskapaska and Italian mafia launching lambos off cliff tops.....

Great opening sequence....wonderful film too, written by later Sweeney creator Troy Kennedy Martin.

i made model garden rockery to look like scenery,

Agreed! This is about as good as it gets. Pure class ...

Best driving song ever... that is all

In a word... no.

Cannonball run opening credits runs it damn close.

What a great memory. I was only a toddler when this film came out at the cinema but i remember watching this on tv in the 70s for the first time and i was just transfixed on this film, especially this opening theme. Just watching this today brings back a very long distance memory of when i first saw it.

That's La Cosa Nostra for you mate, nothing personal, it's just business.

Being in the mob was ever so civilised and taught respect. These days petty criminals don't know they're born! Pff!

Assassinations these days are just too hurried.

Morals are nice but business is just that, business

@@seanhuds229 Also so he dies doing what he loves and instantly too.

Not only nails it but owns it

Indeed 💯 I used to put the scene on repeat.

No problems in the tunnels I hope, Teddy Edward?

Laura Barber he didnt replied until now, oh well...

@@TellyWatcher1997 If he's telling you that he drove it means he survived it...

@@shootmcrunfast now if it was a Citroen SM it would be a different matter. That had a Maserati engine and was one of the most beautiful cars ever built.

I bet you had to play that tune about 6 or 7 times for the same trip, whereas he did it in one, with a little editing, ;-)

That’s answered my question-no way would the producers wreck a brand new Muira!!

I am a big Iain Tyrell fan, great Sunday afternoon watching. This was a customers car that they ‘borrowed’ before delivery, disconnected the Speedo so it wouldn’t show the miles they did. You can see that in this sequence.

@ZappoTan ...seriously, mate? Out of all movie, FF7? 😑

id imagine that Michael bay would have a different take on it ;)

Drive ft Ryan Gosling?

There are some very good one liners.

@@mrrolandlawrence *explosion*

mmzpop Same, apart from I watched the rest.

I saw it at the cinema when it came out in 1969: I would have been 10 years old at the time, and it was, believe it or not, the "B" feature to "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", which we'd actually gone to see (Perhaps the idea behind this double-billing was that they both had "car" themes?). I had similar impressions about it, and the Mafia in their black suits really "creeped me out"...

J Conner bus driver too 🤷‍♂️

I don't think Britain has ever come up with a better singer during the 60s

➡️ NUCLEAR!!!!

@@harrismiller1948 best English singer

@@manchestertart5614 not too shabby for a former bus conductor/ driver!👍

Pitty most sings arnt as lovely as mat🎙

As a Peruvian Woman from Fulham said to me last year on a Thames Boat Trip about the late 1960's....."That is when England WAS England".....I quote verbatim...

throw in Benny Hill also

@@68Boca Imagine this title sequence to the music, "Yakkety Sax". Or the Minis being chased to that music.

FrshJurassicPrnceYA I’m nearly 19 and I have a great list of Top 20 favourites. 20: Samsara (2011) 19: Garden Of Words (2013) 18: JFK (1991) 17: Badlands (1973) 16: Dr Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964) 15: Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980) 14: Whiplash (2014) 13: Spirited Away (2001) 12: Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982) 11: Requiem For A Dream (2000) 10: Chinatown (1974) 9: Citizen Kane (1941) 8: War And Peace (1967) 7: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 6: Barry Lyndon (1975) 5: If.... (1968) 4: Akira (1988) 3: Grave Of The Fireflies (1988) 2: Whisper Of The Heart (1995) 1: A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Where’s “The Italian Job” in your list?!

ungratefulmetalpansy first thing I know you said it’s symbolic and just a “film” but the car wouldn’t of blown up in real life. It’s a flimsy Lamborghini miura woudve of just crumpled up not blown up into a ball of flames but then again that wouldn’t be cool

it is great!! check out "The Shining" intro, it's similar

César Benítez to me the best intro ever would be the opening of A Clockwork Orange. I became an Anglophile (someone who likes English people) because of that film.

Funny that. I am an English Londoner who is 63 and that film turned me OFF some of my fellow Englishmen :)

Ravi S Chadha couldn’t agree more

you're right but I would put the opening shots of Catch22 along side. totally different mind..

Modern days are shit

Would love a time machine and go back for that decade

I was there as an extra. It wasn't the St Bernard Pass, in reality. It is a road leading to a dam in the region of Piedmont, the same location of the film's ending.

@@tarvisponsdebeaumont794 that’s really interesting, was the car that crashed a mock-up of a Miura? I’m also curious how movie production companies get the green light (pardon the pun) to mess up the countryside like that with smashed up vehicles. How did they go about clearing up the mess afterwards?

The crashed Miura (not the functional one, that was authentic) was a proper fiberglass body obtained by a company in Turin that made them. In Turin and surrounding area the production was allowed to do WHATEVER they wanted with full collaboration of local police and the Mayor. Gianni Agnelli, the owner of FIAT, was very enthusiastic of the film and at that time was basically the King of Turin (and one of the most important people in Italy) so nobody bat an eyelid because Gianni Agnelli was vouching for them. No production company could do anything like that anywhere else! @@Pulsonar

@@Pulsonar No car really crashed. You can see the Miura into the tunnel and after a cut emerging on the excavator is the fiberglass body with some diesel burning underneath. The movie production company met with the FIAT owner when they were discussing using FIAT as a sponsor and they had the green light from Agnelli without having to pay a penny and without getting a penny in sponsorship (Agnelli never provided FIAT cars, he was an anglophile and wanted the film to be authentically British). The mess was cleared by us extras and local council workers and there was a barrage further on on the stream blocking bits and pieces. Also, in those times there was a very cavalier attitude to pollution.

@@tarvisponsdebeaumont794 Many thanks for sharing your life experience. Good thing the movie was made a few years before that middle east oil crisis. I doubt if the Italian giant would have time and good will as they Italian auto industry was closing ranks and FIAT bought Ferrari and tightened their belts a bit at the time. Agnelli was indeed an Anglophile, not sure what he’d have done as a gesture of pride if the Queen awarded him an honorary Knighthood, swim the English Channel perhaps in Capt. Webb vintage costume 🙏🏽

Paul Newman Driver on 27 and 27A

My Grandad knew him as he could sing a bit ( not as well of course ) , Matt was a regular in the Boston Arms opposite Tufnell Park tube station in London.

Matt Monro (Terry Parsons) was a bus driver for about 13 weeks,according to his daughter. I love his voice.

charliebartman I’m 17 too and I fully agree. My favourite movie, instant classic.

23 seen it for the 1st realy upsetting seeing that and 2 E types and the DB5 killed

This was more than 17 years ago, what are you guys on??

@@crashbash8549 their age, not the movie age

No dialogue and cool shades,

And made as a big 'Fuck you' to Enzo Ferrari.

Strange isn't it? Here we are fifty years later and other than the fact it is a beautiful car would fit in today's traffic, while a forty year old car in the sixties would look like an antique. (it's been a fallow time since that vibrant decade)

A year or two ago it was released on CD in the special edition - but only in mono, sadly.

What is the name of the song? Pleasee

@@franciscocortes8602 On days like these by Matt Monroe

Late reply! I have the link to the Film version of the song that I uploaded on my channel. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jZ2Xn8l-rLXMkWQ.html

@@Jarms39 That's wonderful, thank you so much 👍

Mr Gandini has recently died RIP

@@frostyfrost4094 😢🙏

Another Michael Caine film, but Zulu looks really good for its time as well.

Not really. A borrowed brand new mint miura and a already wrecked and stripped miura.

Yawn.

A car like that one...

oh grow up...........educate yourself on HUMANS

There are worse ways to die. If the driver lived longer, cigarette-induced cancer would've got him. This is a better end than struggling for breath in a hospital bed. Sad but true.

Lol 😂 ! Hopefully not !!

You have to pay to go down Stelvio think it €20

How much was your hotel. I want to go next year but am worried about the cost. Thanks.

@@Useaname the hotel was $240 Australian Dollars for one night which included breakfast.

@@donnyazoff980 thank you. Much obliged.

I hate the remake. This intro and the car chase, Michael Cane. It doesn't get any better.

@Kyle I hate the remake to this film.