Fun Fact: 0:42 -0:50 - That brown structure with windows you see at the right of the screen was Captain Bryant's (M.Emmet Walsh) office in 1982's Blade Runner. It was built specifically for that movie and still remains there today in Union Station as a cleaning supply closet.

I never get tired of watching this Its just so dynamic and improvised It feels real

I can't say enough positive things about this film. It endures so well...even 25 years (!) after it came out. One reason I loved this film is that it was the first movie (that I know of) that did NOT glamorize Los Angeles. It showed its seedy underbelly and grit...and I freakin' love that!

William Friedkin mentioned that William Petersen never knew there was a phone book inside the briefcase, Petersen played along with the action - "being in the moment". His reaction in trying to break the case was real. Excellent improv

These ranks up there among the best car chase scenes in hollywood history! This movie is from same director of French Connection that produced another great chase!!!

Willima Peterson and Sigourney Weaver both came from the stage to film. Two people who know their craft. This is still the best car chase in Hollywood history. The only chase that comes close is Heath Legder's Joker scene with the truck.

In an interview director William Friedkin said the chase scenes were the last with William Petersen and John Pankow to be filmed because he felt the degree of risk was so high they could be seriously injured or killed.

Holy crap. I jonsed on this movie when it came out, but this is some seriously good stuff. The soundtrack is amazing, the filmaking also amazing.Can I get started about the acting?

in my opinion, best car chase scene of all time

RIP at the train tracks to Grissom's aviators.

This is one of the greatest chase scenes of all time.Only Bullet and the french connection match this unrelenting action.

Great Movie and Wang Chung rock. This seems to be a not well noticed movie. The story is ace, great direction, acting and soundtrack. Thanks for posting.

80s movies like this heavily influenced GTA I bet.

When I studied in South Africa from 84 to 87 my friends once kidded me about American's craze for car chases. They didn't get the appeal. I remember telling them about To Live and Die in LA, which had just come out. My point was that car chases could be incredibly good. The whole film matches it. Most people grasp (at least instinctively) that going the wrong way down the LA freeway was an allegory for Chance's entire approach to law enforcement. The criminal side of lawmen is timeless, going back to the sheriffs in the wild west, who often doubled as henchmen for cattle barons. This movie modernized and dramatized the combination of good and evil in law enforcement masterfully.

classic underrated slept on movie fucking intense car chase scene (william petersen) is a great underrated actor kinda like (gary oldman) wang chung (city of the angels) instrumental is classic

Beige Caprice. Best car for an incognito chase.

This movie was really top and realistic.. because you don't expect them to accidentally rob an undercover cop.... they got chased by their own people and lucky to get away...

Pretty edgy way back, still good&watchable

- the red palmtree is also like blood out of a bulletwound - the capitals LA with fire to indicate its a hot/dangerous city - the pounding dark synthesizer adds power to the bold fontset. - de distingtive orange sunset of LA The TLADILA track is a well balanced ballet of tough suburbs and depressing citylife. The piano and synthesizers emphesizes stopmotion city drama, the beat emphesizes exotic life , the flute gives neighbourhood feeling, guitars sound remorsefull. ..i get carried away :p

Unfortunately Chance was not wearing gloves so he's got his fingerprints on the briefcase and potentially on his sunglasses that fell off when trying to get into the briefcase. Both objects were left at the scene and will be recovered by the FBI when they retrieve Ling's body. It would make for a great subplot how either Chance was not ID'd from those fingerprints or was ID'd after certain events late in the movie. Still, great movie as released

I fuckin love this movie

Love this flick...always wondered what they would have done if the dude told them he was an F.B.I. agent. Would have made things pretty tricky, no? Friedkin snatched Petersen out of "Streetcar" in Canada to make this flick. In my top 10, maybe top 5 ever. "Buddy....you're in the wrong place at the wrong time"...

"To live & die in L.A." (1985). CLASSIC COP FILM. Those 1980s era Ford& GMs were really strong cars ;-) ;-)

That FBI agent with the m16 was a helluva shot lol. Still, one of my all time favorite 80s movies. William Peterson had moxie.

I want that suitcase!

they were't cops.. they were Feds...

350 Chevy with the air cleaner removed at 1:39. I know that sound anywhere! Also, get the soundtrack cd to this movie. You will not be sorry!!!!

This is where Chance went over the line, convincing Vuckavich to pull this stunt, shaking down a guy that was really the FBI. Ruth wanted Chance out of her life that she convinced him this guy was a crook.

0:48 I've seen the interior of that Amtrak station in tons of commercials and/or shows/movies. Beautiful marble mosaic floor that this movie didn't show well, but it's tots identifiable and they will never get rid of work like that so it'll continue to pop up for years to come.

I saw this first 6 years ago Still makes me feel awesome and uneasy at the same time.

This scene demonstrates Real World how different "Entities" of the Gov. can be in Direct Conflict directly and or indirectly.

Damn, where did that guy learn how to shoot? He sprays bullets all over the place then shoots his fellow agent. Look like upper mgt material for the TSA.

Not only is this a great scene from a great movie, we can see what Los Angeles, types of cars, Union Station, and so much more looked like when Guns N' Roses first started (mid 1985).

0:30-0:33 forever classic.

And what a great movie this was! Awesome.

William Petersen kind of resembles Dan Marino classic movie

No that's a well-made quality briefcase.

God, this movie is so damn dark and so freaking cool!!!

DAMN what song is that when they take him away?

Do you think Chance would have killed Ling before his colleagues arrived? My guess is “Yes,” the wire made Ling a loose end.

yeah, chevey did it wright for once. the 350 ci engine.

YOUNGER GRISSOM FROM CSI ?

Same director of The Exorcist 1973

This is one great movie! Its like the movies from the 70s,every thing is so real because they flim on location.Los Angeles has the best of everything for the studios.

Seen this for the first time, great movie!

2:40 He Dropped his sunglasses! LOL😂😅

A mid 70's Ford Gran Torino (yes, the Starsky & Hutch car) rear-ends them at 4:02.

One of my favorite films from the 80s. Wilhem Dafoe played a very creepy villain, and William Petersen was excellent in the movie, and of course, the greatest car chase EVER!!!! Not to mention a great soundtrack by Wang Chung. This movie with out a doubt, later inspired GTA San Andreas.

One of the best MacGuffins ever... car rear-ends agents' vehicle while agent is dialed in with an AR-15 / finger on the trigger

Now that's a great dramatic scene!

So the Chinese guy got shot by his own guys, by accident?

The entire movie soundtrack was scored by Wang Chung. My favorite track is when Willem Defoe is creating the counterfeit money.

This film is a masterpiece i first watched it when i was 9 or 10 when it came put on vhs tape, insane masterpiece!

And the cops were lousy shots too.

Left his fingerprints all over the briefcase handle. 🤔

If rockstar decide to make another 80's GTA... this is a huge inspiration for los santos!

Chance is my hero

At 4:40 is where the T-1000 would arrive a few years later

What the name of the song they play here at the start?

0:12 lol guy on bike from Borne Legacy movie

Poor guy. He was probably undercover cop too.

Was John Vukovich doing the litmus configurrrration on that bill?

Love this flick and have since the 90s when I first saw it, but the lads would've been screwed from Chance's fingerprints on the phonebook cover. Something they overlooked. His prints WOULD have been on file altho there was no comp database then obviously. No Codis. Still, the FBI would've done a psych profile on the perps, assumed they were or are in law enforcement at some level, and started searching his print. For the sake of the movie timeline, the FBI wouldn't have nabbed them before Chance was killed, but they would've gotten Vukovich eventually. That's all assuming Ruth the chic who told them about the sceme wouldn't have snitched after an arrest or somethin.

Handprints on that briefcase.....umm i think yer busted

une vrai classique du film action de policiers comme on les l'aime selon moi.

Money wasnt in the briefcase so where the hell was it?

haha this movie cam out before i even was born haha but the best movie my dad sat down n watched wit me

3minutes no car chase......wtf

Those boots are so tiny

Lol - that dude was a lousy shot

@DBNIGHT Yes

i cant believe they crashed a 72- torino into the back of the red car on the bridge

Wired sent you here?

I have a modest proposal: all movies from the 80s should have their soundtracks remade and recorded over for DVD and TV. Easy thing to do. The theme songs like Heat is On can stay, but the background music they used is horrible, and makes those flicks ridiculously dated, even the best ones. Shoud start with Rain Man, 48 hours and Stakeout. Too bad you can do nothing for the clothes. Who's with me?

William Petersen is great. But there's no denying that he fucked up big time when he turned down the role of Henry Hill in Goodfellas.

3:35 oh look the guys from Varrio Nuevo Estrada posted graffiti.

You're wearing ain't you!

Chris and leon vs italian mafia 80s los angeles car chase

@FetidToecheese yeah I fucking loved him as WILD BILL in GREEN MILE PETER STORMARE (armageddon .. bad boys 2) & STUART WILSON (no escape .. lethal weapon 3) are GREAT ACTORS also who dont get enough credit

“Hello Asshole!” Lol

9C1's comin at ya!!!

4:05 shot with your pants down

He was an undercover agent!

Robbed a drug dealer

Coool!

Taylor Yard teardown......Southern Pacific was in big trouble with diesel fuel spills in the L.A. river

Cover agents were dogshit.....if anyone ever drove a Crown Victoria they have the sound down to a tee....nicely done.

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I do love old movies The cars woman's (looking like women's)and action What is going on with this stupid commercial about plastic cars between the movie Thanks anyway for posting this video God bless You all

fail... they left out the suitcase... I suppose william petersen characters don´t have finger prints in this movie, right? They later return scaping the pursuit of their fellow secret service agents by a hair, they couldnt grab the cars plate number or the faces of peterson and his partner. Guess in that world finger prints are no existent, specialy when there is a dead man with a bullet in his back.

Worst shot ever

Might be best car chase scene in a movie of all time! Rest of the movie, kinda weak! I have to say!

How do I watch it on utube rent or buy like all the other movies I rented