Mad Max - Highway 9 Pursuit [HD]

Mad Max Scene Stars: Vincent Gil, Lulu Pinkus, Steve Millichamp, John Ley, Mel Gibson, Steve Bisley, Paul Young, Vernon Weaver, Joan Letch, Clive Hearne, Telford Jackson, Tom Broadbridge, Peter Culpan, Di Trelour, Mathew Constantine, Peter Ford, Christine Kaman, James McCausland Director: George Miller Writers: George Miller, Byron Kennedy, James McCausland Producer: Byron Kennedy Music: Brian May Production: Kennedy Miller Productions, Mad Max Films Distributon: Roadshow Films Released: 1979
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[@antoniogiannitto2638]

OMG what’s happened!! “Dunno man just got here me self”, every single Aussie has heard that at least once!

[@bradwilliams1691]

Heard it? I use that sentence every chance I can.

[@RoastBeefQueefSniffer]

Jealous and wish I lived down there.

[@smolboy1237]

Hehe. I sometimes use it when I just arrive work

[@jasonw3204]

So true can't count how menny times I've heard it lol

[@kwilde1131]

Best line in the movie.

[@rubensflorentino548]

I have seen this opening scene 1,457 times already. Never gets old.

[@allenblack3785]

NO it doesnt. Do ya see me Toecutter, do ya see me man ? Some skag and his Floozie

[@user-uh6lm5wv6n]

Add afew zeros to the end of your number and thatll be how many times ive watched it since age 10

[@DRchilton]

It's the original Ozzie version as well. Not the usa dubbed over crap. One of the best car chases ever in my opinion.

[@borkokostic4388]

@@DRchilton I am great fan of Mad Max 1. Can you help to download Mad Max but original Australian version of 1979.

[@DRchilton]

@@borkokostic4388 I guess you will have to Google that one mate

[@homersimpsobhun]

RIP Vincent Gil, the Nightrider (1939-2022) and Hugh Keays-Byrne, the Toecutter (1947-2020) Remember them when you look up at the night sky.

[@HenryLeaf]

Hugh was one of the nicest people you could meet in real life. A nature and bird lover who liked the odd puff and cared deeply for disadvantaged people . Loved Stone wall building (like country farm structures ) Was wonderfully generous to his fellow actors and crews and loved helping them lose their nervousness and selfconsciousness.

[@RedPyramid-lf4sb]

I will.

[@Sodiumreactor]

Anything you say.

[@kresdubbin3541]

​@@Sodiumreactorman u beat me to it. Anyway. What a wonderful pholosherpy u have, anything u say

[@cellulanus]

This is honestly a really rare setting. A civilization that's in the process of collapsing, but the fall hasn't hit yet. You've still got police barely holding on and normal citizens just trying to carry on with their normal lives. EDIT: I should be more specific. In Mad Max it seems that local level government agencies are still functioning if barely, but there doesn't seem to be much of anything still operating at a federal level.

[@dartanion0075]

Meet me at the cave

[@TheRealKaiProton]

Id love to see more stories in that setting, just before the fall,

[@barrettwbenton]

*Mad Max* has often been called a "post-apocalyptic" flick, when in fact it's pre-apocalyptic, that period just before everything goes to hell in the proverbial handcart. And this scene still blows my mind for both its choreography of sheer chaos *and* just the right touch of sardonic Aussie attitude.

[@michaelneilson977]

​ @TheRealKaiProton Just go to San Francisco and lock your car. You'll get the full experience. 😂

[@randysurline4651]

Living it now in the cities and it's spreading

[@brettv8]

So much going on in this scene. Unintentional hilarity, intentional humor, human drama, big balled action.

[@ianswift3521]

needs more animals with pouches

[@ethancarpenter8332]

There in Australia aren’t they

[@peterorth2149]

This movie opening is faultless. For the time it was filmed this is high quality action. Seriously well put together. Way ahead of their time. Love It to the MAX

[@theincrediblehulk5797]

I never understood why some people didn’t really like this, this tops fury road in every way

[@peterorth2149]

@@theincrediblehulk5797 Yes it Does. I can't recall 1 cool line that was spoken in Fury Road. You could almost quote the entire Mad Max 1 and it is chock full of the best quotes ever that will stand the test of time.

[@theincrediblehulk5797]

@@peterorth2149 all people want these days is action action action no focusing on anything else, but that’s exactly the reason mad max was good because it fleshed out other things like the characters

[@peterorth2149]

@@theincrediblehulk5797 yep.

[@jurgenv.6030]

Back then it was more normal to make great scenes than today. All CGI crap now...

[@josephwarra5043]

The original is still the BEST, the ONE and ONLY! A true classic, often copied, NEVER EQUALLED!

[@timothyfoster6149]

This one and Road Warrior were and will always be the best. Wasn't too keen on the 3rd but it was okay, just okay but the 1st and 2nd were perfection.

[@Awfulfeature]

Watching this opening scene several times, I’m realizing more and more how much Max was right. The longer the MFP officers stay on the road, the more deranged they get. Goose casually telling the story of a runner trying to scream after a wreck. Roop blind with rage a majority of the chase. What an incredible movie.

[@horrorfanandy4647]

Amazing how much this franchise has evolved over the years. That being said, this is still one of the best openings in any film. Riveting from start to finish!

[@owenrees7544]

Evolved yes, but they have lost something too. I'd like to see another film like this.

[@theincrediblehulk5797]

Evolved for the worst with fury road

[@kwilde1131]

Thunderdome was horrible. Fury Road some what better. But Mad Max is the king.

[@horrorfanandy4647]

@@owenrees7544 They’ve lost the independent grit that defined the first 2 films, especially the first film which was essentially a grindhouse movie that hit it really big. To their credit I actually like both Thunderdome (flaws and all) and Fury Road, but they are definitely inferior to the first two for me. Fury Road is a visual masterpiece, it feels like George fully realised his vision for the film, but something about the first two is just...

[@owenrees7544]

@@horrorfanandy4647 Thunderdome was pretty bad. Fury Road was a very good film... just not a Mad Max film.

[@planetdisco4821]

Metropolitan Force Patrol. Glorious! As an Aussie I’d like to point out that in the 1970’s this was pretty much a standard drive into work in the mornings lol

[@gregorylawson8346]

Nepean Highway?

[@planetdisco4821]

@@gregorylawson8346 yes, in a dark future where gangs of middle aged cyclists in inappropriately tight fitting Lycra have taken over the highway…

[@gregorylawson8346]

Same in England!! Be the "new" Nightrider!" Simply pass them with an old diesel Land Rover in 5th gear at 20mph, saying, "Do you smell me Jonny, do you taste it mate?"

[@bestestusername]

@@gregorylawson8346 plenty rd mill park

[@ddelaney712]

Just had a vision of a guy called nightrider, dressed in Barot dayglo spandex, screaming, I am the NIGHTRIDER " And singing the classic, " you gotta love me, all night long " To anyone offended by this vision, I just want to say,,,, " Your welcome "

[@rustymotor]

Best chase scene ever and no CGI!

[@Grubnar]

That is why it has aged so well!

[@jay5112006]

Absolutely legendary film...when he made this he didn't think it be popular...how wrong he was one of the best Australian films made

[@MIck-M]

I met the Night Rider shortly after the movie was out on a train out of Melbourne. Well spoken quiet guy and said he hadn't actually seen it yet at the theater but intended to. He did actually dress a little like that though.

[@MrPomdownunder]

The best opening to a film ! George Miller does a cameo as the diner owner.... He used his own van for the crash .....I met Steve Bisley at a special screening and he's a top bloke....

[@finc4164]

yes and they stripped the van interior, so it was just a shell (outer chassis) thats why it looks so light when it spins and spins, theres no weight to it.

[@michaelbaum9117]

Something you'd never hear in 2022 "We're gonna be in trouble now, he had his indicator on!"

[@animaltvi9515]

What's an indicator ?

[@308V8HZ]

Your turn signal .

[@WarThunder-zt4xw]

@@308V8HZ Don't help him out he probably won't use it anyway. Can't play the bloody drums let alone drive a car safely. ;)

[@geraldselvey7687]

Anyone want to buy a slightly used bongo van?

[@gusm5128]

I believe the entire budget in 79 for this film was approx $360,000 ! Many cars etc used over and over . Loved it in 79 and still love it in 23

[@raverdeath100]

it wasn't much. the blue van that got totalled was George Martin's and the lorry at the end was hired from an non-suspecting haulage firm.

[@davidnavarro4821]

Adjusted for inflation it’s about more than $1’000’000 ! So it was a pretty high budget compared to today’s indie movies! According to iMDB it took George Miller 18 months to gather the money.

[@camarossdriver]

Being an American…I never understood WHY they had to dub in English accents for the U.S. version? Even as a kid,I could understand the Aussie’s just fine. AND…they made the actors sound RIDICULOUS!

[@bernknezevic7736]

They made mel Gibson sound like John Wayne 😂😂😂

[@toddh4491]

Loved this movie so much as a kid. I didn't know they had overdubbed the strong Aussie accents until I bought the DVD later in life. Still holds up to this day. No crappy special effects to get in the way and look dated just a good plot and amazing drive / chase camera work.

[@jerseyforhawks]

I have seen this movie and scene many, many times. As someone over 50 years old, the outcomes, carnage and road chaos is terrifying. You got me George Miller.

[@glennbeadshaw727]

Kennedy Miller

[@michaelmclachlan1650]

@@glennbeadshaw727 Actually Byron Kennedy and ‎George Miller - Kennedy Miller was their production company/

[@SixLowa]

I love how Big Booper stayed in the game for as long as they could 💪🏿🙏🏿

[@MrNobbyify]

*Bopper

[@peterhoulis1184]

Dunno how many times ive seen it , that kwaka z1000a taking off looks awesome never get tired of seeing it

[@MrPlumTree]

Ano but did u notice when goose crashes the z 1000 has spoke wheels instead of mags!

[@daveworthing2294]

Excellent spot Mr Plum. Seen this film 20 odd times and never noticed. Had to watch this clip again to make sure.

[@6680thSOG]

1:47 coolest sound ever..sound of real muscle cars in their natural element.

[@donkeyslayer4661]

No one, but, no one ever thought a 1970 Australian Ford Falcon as a muscle car.

[@planetdisco4821]

Don’t listen to him! He’s clearly a Holden man. My Old Boy had an XB Gt with a 351 V8. They’re a muscle car… 👍

[@bobafett9779]

@@planetdisco4821 he said no one thought of them as muscle cars of course they are sought after now but not at the time my Xb was laughed at by all the cunts at school in the early 90s

[@GoredonTheDestroyer]

The irony about that is that, out of all three of the active MFP police cars we see in the entire movie (the Falcon sedans, to be specific), only Max's had the 351C. March Hare, the XA, was a retired taxi with the Ford inline-6, while Big Boppa was also a retired police car, albeit with a 302 instead of the 351.

[@user-uh6lm5wv6n]

@@GoredonTheDestroyer Max was the top pursuit man so only he got the 351s. Correct about March Hare too and in true Taxi fashion blowing smoke out the back lol

[@chuckselvage3157]

George Miller is a legend

[@dannyzuehlsdorf3697]

I remember watching this at 1:00 am as a kid and just being BLOWN AWAY. So damn good! Thank you KTVU channel 2 in the Bay Area

[@guadacoma]

When I saw this movie as a kid it blew my mind. I loved it.

[@ernanirodrigues6050]

For me it was one of the best movies I've ever seen in my entire life 👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍

[@Benratbag1997]

I’d watch Mad Max any day as well as many other Classic Car Chase films and this scene alone beats the crap out of all the Fast & Furious bollocks put together.

[@QuandalePringle-hg4uf]

2:22 is it me or does this scene just look so good. I know its just goose trying to catch up with the chase but with us not knowing where the cops are just being able to hear there sirens in the distance and seeming where they are going too.

[@muthahumpa2715]

I thought the very same thing.

[@thestrangechannelofjeff7426]

I agree . There's something about that 6 seconds of sirens as the bridge zooms out

[@zeppelinman70]

The first 2 movies of this franchise were THE BEST! They don't make 'em like this anymore. I can't watch them enough. Good on ya George!

[@locust7777]

2 is garbage

[@zeppelinman70]

​@@locust7777 I thought 3, Beyond the Thunderdome was garbage.

[@pedestrian_overkill]

This movie and Gone in 60 seconds capture a significant part of 70's zeitgeist

[@dartanion0075]

Haaa

[@iseenothing]

Vanishing Point

[@DavidTron63]

He had his indicator on

[@mccrackenphillip]

I did not see it on

[@AmaticXLII]

Shut up!

[@the_road__warrior6185]

@@AmaticXLII You beat me to it 😂🤣😅

[@Blippity_Bloop64]

Well, we know he wasn't driving a BMW.

[@bradwilliams1691]

Couldn't be a taxi driver then.

[@vinloy23]

What happened? Goose: " I don't know man, I just got here ma self" One of the best movies EVER made.

[@professornuke7562]

Me self. Not ma self. I was 12 when this came out, and I know how we talked. Of course, my Mum insisted we spoke, but at school we fucken talked.

[@andybyrne50]

A cinematic masterpiece !

[@DPwatkykjy]

The accent was so thick even from just watching this I found a spider in my shoe

[@stephenpemberton85]

😆🤣😆🤣I got snake bit!!!

[@JBofBrisbane]

There are people who don't talk 'Murrican in other parts of the world. Listen to a few and learn.

[@johnnauer6427]

In the immortal words of Jackie Gleason, I am in high speed pursuit! different movie...

[@allthekingshorses7178]

For christ sake shove over 😂😂😂

[@snelgrave101]

I'm in pursuit of a black trans-am he's all mines so stay out of the way .

[@KomradeKrusher]

Damn, everytime I think "Mad Max" got nothing on part two, I rewatch this opening scene and get reprimanded.

[@petermcelvogue7521]

RIP Vincent ‘The Nightrider’ Gil

[@ToreDL87]

Agh, will be missed, he performed solid. At least he had a good run.

[@davidmccrory5604]

That beautiful fish tail on the bike just never gets old

[@TrixiLovesYou]

The cinematography and editing are flawless.

[@dartanion0075]

Yep

[@stevenbeck5746]

46 years later those roads in Victoria have not changed one bit.

[@rods6405]

No they have electric scooter lanes!

[@InhumanCondition-gh2qj]

I never got why they had to do more "Americanized" voice overs for the U.S. release. I like the original.

[@toucan221]

This has to be one of THE BEST crash and chase scenes of ALL TIME ✔✔❤❤💙💙⭐⭐

[@gang6009]

"You're blaspheming again, I don't have to work with a blasphemer"

[@EMPI75]

remembering how i was a kid, watching this movie in a permanent loop. i was shure that i would witness armageddon in my lifetime, now as The memory fades... the vision dims... i realized that no SHTF has happened and probably will not..

[@RtB68]

Ahhh...the front bench seat. Classic. The floozy's eyes at 3.55 are superb...as is the night riders tongue a few seconds after. She was getting good service.

[@jimkirk4357]

I swear the best part of this is gorgeous Lulu Pinkus. I saw this in a theater in downtown San Diego in 1980. Made me wanna go to Australia.

[@A1-ve5yk]

I've watched a lot of B movies. This low-budget Australian classic filled with car crashes, motorcycles, and graphic violence is cheesetastic.

[@bruh_oly1370]

Ordinary men battered and smashed . This scene sums it up well

[@locust7777]

Boy crossing the road is super cute 🤣

[@californiadreaming9216]

I'd have to put this film in the top 5 car chase films ever. Vanishing point has not yet been dethroned.

[@theincrediblehulk5797]

Even though the movies are not related I like to imagine vanishing point as a prequel to mad max, like the decline of society was starting in vanishing point

[@californiadreaming9216]

@@theincrediblehulk5797 an interesting concept!!

[@clearcreek69]

I've yet to see Vanishing Point.

[@snelgrave101]

The original gone in 60 seconds won't be beaten by any movie past or present.

[@cryptohunt2552]

The best Mad max movie ever!

[@kb0acl303]

Beautiful bike with excellent engine sound.

[@leadingfiremancross7211]

Love these early LTS sirens.

[@awjelfs5034]

Rated R for rewatch over and over.

[@Ultra4115_]

best car scenes, but forgot to keep in the one where max does that sick burnout lol

[@jasonw3204]

I think the best most realistic part of the chase is the shot of the rear tyre when Max hits the skids at the end of the chase if u have ever done that sort of breaking its just what happens in that type of car

[@stephenpemberton85]

Sign in restaurant"If you can't smell it..we ain't got it"!!! 🤣😆🤣😆🤣😆

[@onlyme219]

Proper movie, no cgi :)

[@the_road__warrior6185]

We’ll see ya on the road SCAAAG!!!!

[@kitharrison8799]

In the UK we had Neighbours every day for 37 years and this is still the most Australian thing I have ever seen.

[@dartanion0075]

Ashes

[@sandraspruill4831]

Most definitey preferred it with orignial Aussie spoken instead of the sad overdubbimng we got Stateside. :(

[@michaelchevreaux7780]

NO Computer CG. Stunts Real And VERY Dangerous!

[@JuanWick2010]

I don’t know mate, I just got here me self 😂 ! I love that character.

[@illybidol8730]

The toecutter!! Thinking of him when you look to the stars in the Night

[@honorladone8682]

We must have watched this movie at least a hundred times when it first came out. Philadelphia USA

[@Sweet68Camaro]

Over the radio….I am a rocker, I am a roller, I am an out of controller. -AC/DC

[@ripsnort8194]

Awesome man love it 🇬🇧

[@1505PIR]

Live it. Most of the scenes were filmed at low speeds. Beautiful camera work! I am the toecutter! Favorite movie. Top 10, for truth.

[@1505PIR]

Shout out to Australia!

[@ToreDL87]

Yeah they would have been driving slow because nobody made tires anymore, by Mad Max 2, Fury Road & Thunderdome it was even worse and some wheels weren't wheels at all especially at the driving axles, just rags.

[@stephencampbell2115]

Great story of how DP David Eggby got on the back of the motorcycle and filmed it going over 100!!!!!

[@rhettcorbett3346]

And that was REAL smoke coming out of the exhaust. The engine was about to expire. I love the comment - It wouldn't do 90 kms down a mineshaft with a tailwind. And it was supposed to have Pursuit across the boot. Not Interceptor.

[@petergiannaros9037]

As George Miller said that car was an ex taxi 6 cylinder with huge K's on the clock .Max's was an Xb 351 ex cop car and so was the Big boppa's but that was a 302.The first Mad Max movie was made on a very small budget.

[@rhettcorbett3346]

@@petergiannaros9037 And the 302 was a blueprinted engine. And was more powerful than Max s 351.

[@marciorodrigocarvalhodealm3635]

Clássico, não me canso de assistir esse filme!

[@robertsmith8876]

Pure cinema 📽️📽️📽️ stunt work no CGI thank god..

[@yoann5573]

The damn movie cost 350 000 dollars to produce, and it was in 1979. To get an idea of how low the budget was, Vanishing point (1971) biggest chase scene was using a full million dollars. On one single scene. With such results I do not get why George Miller wasn't named "Mad Miller" after producing a movie like that... This dude is legendary, not even to mention Fury Road which is a pure Motorstorm-like masterpiece

[@thoughtsonnarrowboatingwit3882]

I have watched this film nearly as many times as I’ve watched Vanishing Point.

[@elbrianoboesito9632]

Let's get em

[@Krrrimmi]

The apocalyptic Australia of MAD MAX. B-)

[@acersalman8258]

beautiful ❤❤❤❤❤

[@josephmullin5845]

Notice the milk getting spilled from the paint tins when the van gets hit.

[@ME10920]

Beautiful ❤

[@kevinzachary9824]

"See you on the road Bronze, see you on the road like we did the Night Rider!"...

[@lard_lad_AU]

Great how they got that stunt toddler kid 4:00 to stand still between the 2 speeding cars

[@davidnavarro4821]

Pretty sure they got a mini-mannequin for that. Having a real kid would’ve been far too dangerous.

[@joaolodovico2175]

Filme muito bom 👏

[@LINJ638]

When you are pushed to the limit after losing everything you have in life.

[@user-so1mp5hv4e]

That so cool

[@enriquecasiano7921]

I love went he said he have the indicator on mate ❤

[@manuelrodriguez2637]

I love that even the tow trucks are souped up... highly competitive business 😂

[@barrymchugh5612]

Straight up cult classic with Mel the man leading the way AKA MAd Max!!

[@martino7465]

The night rider has the most chilling scream in cinematic history.

[@michelanderson6912]

Não canso de assistir esse filme.

[@dartanion0075]

On ya mate

[@sranbuevac4081]

No fear Mad Max ♥️

[@brianmoylan1671]

🏆CLEVO FOREVER!🏆

[@johnjackson7045]

that baby cause one of the best action scenes

[@railtrolley]

Baby stroller parked behind Australian-produced Rambler (AMC) Hornet.

[@lancer2442]

This max is like a combo of the driver from drive and the courier from new vegas 🎉

[@gregorylawson8346]

No one has ever seen how the Nightrider passed the caravan unhindered 🤔

[@bradwilliams1691]

Or how Big Bopper managed to get in ahead of March Hare. Especially when you consider that their car was just about written off back at the junction.

[@drazenbudis7881]

@@bradwilliams1691 He didnt

[@djpemb]

@@drazenbudis7881 he did. Watch the scene again and you can see that he is ahead

[@speakfreeley4473]

Talking about the caravan it was used as an office while filming. While the chase came at the beginning it was actually the last thing they filmed. Once the caravan was of no further use they destroyed it when "Big Bopper" crashed through it.

[@alexandruduta8102]

superrrr....filmul

[@humbleopinion1499]

Nothing worse than copping a saucepan in the throat.

[@battlestarmarc]

Awesome action film. Made on a b budget. Amazing. Great opening car chase to start this film.

[@eariamjh71]

Never noticed the knife sticking out of the seat by Charlies head before.

[@colb9916]

its the saucepan handle.

[@user-uh6lm5wv6n]

Not a knife its a saucepan handle thats why he says "charlies copped a saucepan in the throat"

[@brettv8]

@@user-uh6lm5wv6n Never thought of that, caravan contents through the windscreen...

[@gilbertkohl6991]

And I learned something of value today. I thought it was Aussie slang

[@seanwheeldon9315]

Beat scene of the movie

[@AlbertoJavierMolpeceresR-pd7zz]

Nadie escapa de los Ángeles de negro..... Te dejan que te confíes y has caído son los Ángeles del bien.....Todo quien se crea más listo acabará en el infierno.Gracias por existir 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💙❤️💚

[@carlcess]

Goose be riding that motorcycle now 🏍💨