McQ Car Chase (1974)

[@garyevans3421]

Al Lettieri was the quintessential 70's bad guy. McQ, Mr. Majestik, The Getaway and The Godfather. He always did a great job.

[@snodgresswilim4817]

Killed on screen by McQueen, Pacino, Bronson, and Wayne. Quite a record for a bad guy.

[@ianmangham4570]

The Turk

[@TheSuperCRASHer]

That Chase at the End was one of the Best Beach Chases ever done and the Car Crash with that 73 Impala was so Bad Ass I loved every Second of it.

[@UncleMike43]

Near Point Grenville on the Quinault Indian Reservation. Beautiful place.

[@ThunderHead289]

same. im 19. drove a 65 galaxie since 15. nothing beats that era. what a modern day hell this is!

[@ZorbinEUR]

wayne in a plymouth belvedere with a MAC 10.. how much hardcore could this be, great movie great chase

[@angelvettorazzi3718]

Is a Pymouth Satellite not a Belvedere

[@liamclarke5761]

​@angelvettorazzi3718 he's not wrong it says Belvedere

[@trenthughes1566]

GREAT Elmer Bern. soundtrack and a great change of sceanry for Mr. Wayne away from the early 70's Westerns he was still doing! _ A Fan!

[@Charlie-Cat.]

Had a Brown 1972 Cadillac that lasted me for years like the one in this video! It had a 472 cu inch engine and had enough torque to move an apartment complex! I miss it to this very day!

[@angelvettorazzi3718]

maybe you must say 427 ci engine

[@42lookc]

No, he was correct. The 472 was unique to Cadillac.

[@Glenn1967ful]

@@42lookc We used to love these films in England, a lot of us couldn't afford cars and the ones that could had cars that had engines below 1600 cc.

[@soundofimpact3924]

This was a '71 Notice the grill...

[@twoeightythreez]

@@angelvettorazzi3718 Nope the 472 was a Cadillac engine and you could order a 500-cube engine if you desired.

[@ProductofNZ]

I love the sweet weather changes...sunny, foggy, back to sunny. Not to mention the sweet post production smoke overlay. They really knew how to fool the audience back in the day. WOW!

[@B304A124]

This reminds me of the TRUE full-size American cars of a couple generations ago, when the largest models were 18 to 19 feet--and even more--long. And weighed about 2-and-a-half to THREE tons. Them were the days!

[@stanbernadino]

At the end when the blue caddy slides to a stop the front is facing toward the ocean. Next shot it's facing inland XD. Love those old cars

[@Glenn1967ful]

I don't think car chases in American films will ever be the same since the old style American cars have gone. A Nissan chasing a Honda doesn't look the same.

[@frankfarago2825]

Okay. So how about a Kia chasing a Mitsubishi? Or a Fiat 500 chasing a Smart?

[@Glenn1967ful]

@@frankfarago2825 In Britain in the seventies, an Austin Allegro chasing a Hillman Avenger, engines overheating at 90 mph and the gearchange crunching from fast changes.

[@jhassett2]

@@Glenn1967ful Avengers are OK

[@russellgay9442]

The rollover is the BEST! It was Hollywood's first cannon-assisted rollover; ( the device became known as the McQ cannon). When stuntman Hal Needham rehearsed the stunt it nearly killed him; leaving him hospitalized with a broken back and ribs and a punctured lung! Another stuntman, Gary McLarty had to do the rollover in the movie.

[@5timesm]

But Hal became a famous director afterwards 😇🤷🏻‍♂️

[@hothmandon]

It was amazing how those cars could fly right threw all that water going that fast and not stall.

[@Glenn1967ful]

Normally, what happens is the water gets into the engine and the electrical system and the car won't start again. Yet this is a bit of escapism, three old school American cars on a beach and it's worth watchiing for the chase alone.

[@Wildstar40]

@@Glenn1967ful Cars from that era would get water into their distributor caps which is why GM and small block Chryslers have their distributors located between the carburetor and the firewall which is the best placement for staying dry. Also don't forget these are stunt cars and they knew well in advance they were going to do this scene so waterproofing distributor caps should not be ruled out nor should the possibility these scenes may have been done over and over dur to cars stalling out which may or may not have happened. We'll never know.

[@nevittwoods1730]

Have to keep speed up or wheels sink in sand 👍 tried on holiday 👍

[@hoss73ford]

Love the 72 Cad. Back when cars were cars, 4000+ pounds and 9 to 10 miles per gallon. Had two in later years.

[@ianmangham4570]

473 BIGBLOCK

[@paulsheehan5010]

This movie was shot in 1973, released in 1974, (no 1974 cars in or in back round).

[@Glenn1967ful]

What I really like about this film is seeing streets full of full sized American cars with only the odd Beetle to represent imports. At the time in England a Rover 2000, with a two litre four cylinder engine, was one of our biggest cars, but most people had to make do with noisy, basic 1.3 litre cars like the Austin 1300. Seeing cars like the ones in Mc Q always put a smile on my face.

[@tripletaurus]

The Chevy is a '73 Impala with a 350. Gary McLarty did that rollover (Seattle) The Plymouth is a Belvedere with a 318. There were dubbed in sounds in this sequence from the Bullitt car chase as well. '71 Caddy-Nice

[@ianmangham4570]

350 Windsor

[@MyBenjamin66]

What a way to test the wipers.

[@tvpmark]

I have to admit. This is my ultimate favorite John Wayne movie. His previous movies would be Westerns so he rode a horse, or war movies where he'd be on a jeep, tank, or other armored military vehicle. To see him drive a car chasing villains was absolutely cool.

[@Wildstar40]

McQ should have been a movie turned TV show to go with John Wayne's change from Western Town Sheriff to Concrete City Detective. Then we would have more content.

[@johan-erikjohannesson2796]

Yes, this film breaks his usual pattern of characters and films, dirtier, grittier and more brutal, but I guess he regretted turning down Dirty Harry so this was his response.

[@MrRockzilla86]

Hal Needham, one of the best stunt drivers ever. Almost died in that violent roll over crash from a overloaded explosive charge in a piston that came out from underneath the vehicle to make the rollover happen.

[@WinslowLeach1974]

Nice chase, Caddy does a magical turn at the end lol (film goof). Al Lettieri is one of the greatest screen baddies ever.

[@paulsheehan8185]

this movie was shot in 1973, (no 1974 cars), released in 1974.

[@samspace81]

When John Wayne comes out with the Mac-10 you surrender.

[@nevittwoods1730]

better try next door lol

[@hothmandon]

I would have slammed on those breaks.

[@ronito6683]

Ingraham......9mm. Remember he "borrowed" it from the gun store.

[@gregorymoten7831]

1:18 Nice car jump. Very underrated John Wayne 70's movie! 🔥

[@paulsheehan2741]

mcq was shot in 1973 released in 1974, (no cars in or in backround were newer than 1973)

[@B304A124]

Looking at old chase scenes like this one--and then thinking about today's automobiles--really drives home the point of just how BIG our American cars were back then. Boy, I miss them days. SUVs are OK, but they just don't cut it for me.

[@meeeeeeeeeeee]

At the time this comment was written, there was at least the new-ish 2010 Crown Victoria.

[@andreanatali7334]

E bei tempi auto fantastiche e grandissimi attori Jon waine mio idolo❤❤

[@Glenn1967ful]

I watched this film on Five a few months ago and it is quite a decent attempt by Wayne to move into the tough cop territory. The two chase scenes are excellent.

[@hoss73ford]

Always a bad guy Al Lettieri, always convincing in his roles, passed away a little more than a year after this was filmed, he was only 47.

[@gumballrally427]

Yeah. Al was a great bad guy. Gone way too soon.

[@ekop1778]

+Gumball LastRally he was in the mob in real life he was way too young to pass

[@hoss73ford]

+Ron I. Yes he was. Too bad his career and life was cut short

[@hoss73ford]

+H.G. C. No, Rocky came out 2 years after Al's passing.

[@robertszvetics210]

A DAM SHAME HE WAS GREAT

[@Lfdjake91]

This is a great movie & so was the Duke other modern cop flick Brannigan. It is really interesting to see Wayne do something besides his usual steady diet of westerns & war movies. Wayne is great in his roles as a modern day, aging but still tough as nails cop. .

[@dougslittlediesel]

His only modern cop movof the time. This movie was said to inspire the TV show Rockford Filed.

[@edmundcharles5278]

Brannigan was another modern police movie which was set in 1970s London.

[@Salguine]

@Flynn1926 The 1970s was the greatest movie decade in history.

[@1950Grendel]

My first car was a 1964 Nash Rambler. Called it Iron Man. Had it for 2 years and never did anything but add fuel.

[@trashcompactorYT]

No one sent me here. I just wanted to see John Wayne shoot an M10.

[@Cropredy02]

First on-screen use of a cannon roll. Hal Needham was supposed to have don the gag, but he suffered a spinal fracture testing the gag when he invented it - over-estimated the powder needed and it threw the car something like six or seven feet in the air. Also - the car that crashes through the piling? The other pilings were real; that one was a balsa wood dummy that was also cut almost all the way through. Hitting one of th real ones would have put that car out of the chase. And, as it happens, the tide was higher than they realised, and the car began hydroplaning at JUST the wrong point; he barely got it under control in time to hit the right one. ======================= I remember a TV special promoting the film at the time, and the driver of the stunt car, before doing the gag, saying "...and then I hit the brakes, get it sideways, push the button and go flippity-flop down the beach."

[@sawtnpeppa]

seems like I remember reading an article when the movie was made ( basically the release) that the Impala had to be reinforced to hold it together for that final shot .. there were a lot of dramatic movie chase scenes to try to out do the Bullitt chase ( not knocking the Impala, btw) In the French Connection, apparently wrecked a few cars they weren't supposed to ( those that were supposedly just parked there) and left that in the movie

[@mikeowen7526]

The original sound effects..... car starting up car engines and gunshots ❤ This is why i like the 70s films

[@Flynn1926]

The music is the best part. Man, whats wrong with some people? That was the seventies.

[@Glenn1967ful]

America doesn't make cars like these now. Could you imagine John Wayne in a Nissan being chased by two Ford MPVs? I really wish the energy crisis never happened as America would still be making huge, powerful cars that people like us Brits always dreamt about.

[@captaindelishus]

+Glenn Cumbria I grew up in America in the '70s, and my first cars were Triumphs. No "lead sleds" for me. Now, I dream of a Morgan 3-Wheeler.

[@frankgarrett9500]

Those cars would've been toast at the beginning.

[@michaelmason7272]

But....The modern dodge hellcat has 700 horsepower.... While they are somewhat rare 1200 horsepower mustangs are sold today, a more typical mustang GT and Camaro have 450 horsepower, Corvettes have 600ish horsepower. There is plenty of faults with modern cars but in terms of engine output I feel we have come back from the dark days of the 70's and then some.

[@andreaspackheiser5493]

klasse performence,tolle cars und coole stunts

[@scdevon]

These cars rotted to dust 1 year after being driven in that salt water.

[@porflepopnecker4376]

Not if the owners paid extra for the True-Coat.

[@certaindeed]

in about three months

[@Cougar111469]

@steuarts John Wayne's car is a '69 Plymouth- either a Satellite or a Belvedere. The two-door version of that car was the basis for the legendary Road Runner and GTX musclecars. The Dukes Of Hazzards' Dodge Charger is the cousin to this car.

[@HMB-rv8ez]

The music the sound the film John Wayne everything is perfect 👍

[@DoctorBrodski]

I forgot Diana Muldaur was in this. She sure got around back then. She did this in between assignments with Dennis Weaver's McCloud.

[@AmericasChoice]

She was a great TV actress. Star Trek, too.

[@tomloft2000]

too bad he didn't do these roles earlier on-i think he would have been great.

[@ussvoyager8650]

Definitely 1 of best movie car chases

[@rickd5997]

Still love this movie

[@jlg395]

Thanks, Hal Needham.

[@DHTSciFiArtist]

Is it me or does the hero car sound like the Charrger from Bullitt

[@cudak888]

+H.G. C. He was almost right. It's a '69 Belvedere, while a Satellite of the same year would have carried a few extra trim pieces on the trunk and top of the fenders, but would otherwise be the same. As for the reason it looks like an A-body: The video is not in its correct aspect ratio: McQ's original 2.35 : 1 aspect ratio has been squished to 16:9 here. Source: Have one each, Satellite and Valiant.

[@paulsheehan8185]

movie was shot in 1973.

[@Glenn1967ful]

@snarkfarkle Yeah a car chase involving a Hyundai Accent and two Toyotas, which we'll get before long,will never match up to some Detroit V8s in a car chase. When you want to do a car chase, it has to be American cars or, at a pinch, Italian or British supercars.

[@paulsheehan5010]

The so called Impala, is a Bel Air, (four tailights).

[@paulsheehan8185]

Plymouth, looked like a 1968, but was a 1969, (headrests).

[@paulsheehan8185]

So called Impala, was a Bel Air, (four tailights).

[@cadman303]

I have a old Motor Trend mag from 74 that talks about this chase scene and movie. MT was on the set when they filmed this chase. And yes Gary Mclarty was the stunt driver in the Chevy and was in it when it rolled. Great chase.

[@certaindeed]

this movie was under rated...it was compared to a cheap copy of Bullitt with McQueen...but it's not. it is John Wayne classic b movie. that car chase at the end was one if the best and most realistic and the first real car roll without a ramp

[@stomp919]

Kick ass movie. Saw it when it came out so I was 11 or 12. I want that junk!

[@frankrichardson4581]

ARtDH - I think you are right about Bullitt and Wayne's Plymouth! I have thought that before.

[@ProjectFonts]

@Glenn1967ful Finally someone who isn't some new age hippie. And i'm a teenager so there arent many other people my age like you. i miss the 60's and 70's although I wasnt there :(

[@edmundcharles5278]

Amazing - only in Hollywood! My car would have gotten stuck in the sand or flooded out by the seawater. It's a great scene anyway.

[@jayczyzyk9707]

Great scene

[@67buick350]

If you want to see one of the last BIG AMERICAN CAR car chases then watch "To Live and Die in LA". It came out in '84 I think and the undercover cop is driving a 4 dr '83 or '84 Chevy Impala on the RR tracks and beating the shit out of it and it's taking the beating like a real American Car would until now of course.

[@mikeowen7526]

Elmer Bernsteins 70s theme is mind blowing ❤❤❤

[@Shoobee63]

Thanks YaStunt for the update. Name some of your favorite stunts......(?)

[@SIMAR68]

Put the full movie on here

[@AZCobraman]

Gotta love the NASCAR soundtrack.

[@TheSuperCRASHer]

And I had a 1973 Impala but it was Blue like that Caddy Color, but I sold it after a few months.

[@frankrichardson4581]

Analyde Gap Road - I found it after 40 years - the Burlington railroad is gone but there are abutments there indicating the trestle and the drain pipes. Wow! Wayne shoots Franklin Toms and then sees that Santiago has arrived too! The railroad trestle is gone but you can clearly see on Google maps the site of the railroad crossing. I also used NETR!

[@pjfan1973]

www.google.com/maps/@47.219015,-124.2082972,3a,75y,116h,87.66t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s4uj5tNlWHDvCEKiSIk-lww!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 Confirmed! The road was paved and raised up but the rocks, remaining wood trestle and drain pipes are still there!

[@lorenzodeluca9202]

John sturges was a fine director... Gunfight at the ok corral... The great escape... Magnificente Seven etc etc...he took an average formula, an old Duke and made a masterpiece in his genre.

[@boofdfast]

That Caddy looks almost like my 1st car... a 73 Cadillac Coupe de Ville, with the 472cu V8. I miss that car. :)

[@Darwinion]

That salt water isn't gonna do much good for those panels. :P

[@daviddowns7552]

Actually this is my favorite jw movie of all.

[@paulsheehan8185]

plymouth is a 1969, (headrests) and the so called impala, is a bel air (four tailights.

[@Shoobee63]

The rollover stunt was performed by Burt Reynolds' good friend Hal Needham (who later directed Smokey and the Bandit). Needham broke his back doing the stunt.

[@markeystephen2992]

McQ was a very enjoyable film, I loved the way how it finished with a brutal example of car beach rage, and the shoot out at the end was good. The Mac 10 machine gun with the silencer was a seriously cool with firepower to match when John Wayne used it. The actor who played the baddie was great in this, I cannot remember his name but in most films I saw him in, he was always playing baddies, it’s a shame that he passed away, R.I.P and John Wayne too. Most probably don’t rate this film but I really enjoyed it. 👍🏾.

[@frankd1965]

it was a 1969 model. he also drove a stolen 1968 Plymouth Belvadere that was from The Seattle Police Department.

[@Murphy98112]

@Gossage54 FYI - "Hyundai is a group of companies founded by Chung Ju-yung in South Korea. The first Hyundai company was founded in 1947 as a construction company. Some of the best-known Hyundai divisions are Hyundai Motor Company, the world's fourth largest automaker and Hyundai Heavy Industries, the world's largest shipbuilder. Other companies currently or formerly controlled by members of Chung's extended family may be loosely referred to as a part of the Hyundai chaebol..."

[@kimisdaman]

@MrEmotionalman McQ's car was an early '70s Firebird Trans Am; since the movie was from '74 and the car is not a '74, I'll guess it's a '73.

[@andyoldschool810]

Nice chase!

[@paulsheehan2741]

MC Q MOVIE, RELEASED IN 1974 AND SHOT IN 1973, (1974 CARS WEREN'T OUT)

[@Erics5th]

This was actually filmed on the coast of Washington, around Ocean Shores, not around Seattle.

[@moclipsdude]

Filmed at Pacific Beach, Moclips and the Quinault Indian Nation :)

[@captaindelishus]

+moclipsdude I drove on that beach in the '60s (Well, road in the back seat of the family station wagon). We'd go to Moclips every Labor Day, and would get to the beach the same way they do in the movie, driving under that rail bridge. We'd stay in the little cabins that were Ocean Crest at that time.

[@moclipsdude]

Sounds like great memories! I used to walk across the trestle in the 1970's when I came to visit my grandparents in PB. Too bad the BN tore it down :(

[@captaindelishus]

+moclipsdude I work in downtown Seattle now, so I've seen all the sites in the movie, like the men's room where McQ stuffs Santiago's head in the urinal, and the gunshop, now closed, where McQ borrows the MAC10. There's a good video on youtube with a lot of the locations identified, and the convoluted routes that some of the car chases cover.

[@moclipsdude]

I've seen that video and the circle McQ was driving around the off ramp at Dearborn. The scene with Colleen Dewhearst in her house was filmed in Pacific Beach. The house is now part of the Sand Dollar Inn rental pool. The 1970's stereo in this scene is now in the Museum of the North Beach in Moclips :)

[@paulsheehan2741]

BEACH CHASE SEEN HAD TWO ODD LOOKING CARS. THE 1973 CHEVY IMPALA, WAS REALLY A BEL AIR (4 TAILLIGHTS) AND THE PLYMOUTH WAS A 1969, WITH A 1968 GRILL, (KNEW IT WAS A 1969, BECAUSE OF HEADRESTS)

[@mantabond]

The opening chase of Quantum of Solace owes quite a bit to this pursuit.

[@Cougar111469]

@Tripletaurus- Since the Plymouth is a department vehicle, it could just as easily have a 383 or 440. The 383 was Mopar's bread-and-butter big block, but you could order these cars with any available engine on the option list.

[@sudaev]

I'm a developmentally-arrested 19 year old, 19 going on 13, and I love this music! I'm also an egg-sucking asperger's freak who sniffs glue.

[@towlebucket]

Moss Pawn sent me here!

[@carbonfootprintmyass]

hes about 50 inthis film where did he get a silenced mac 10 like the one in pulp fiction

[@snarkfarkle]

@promixcuous Just the stunt at 1:19 where Wayne's Mopar (Plymouth?) does a nose plant after jumping a sand berm. Holy mackerel, that was enough to firmly plant one's tonsils on the steering wheel with a shower of teeth falling to the floor mat. We don't need no stinkin' shoulder belts... it's the 70s! God help me, I loved that movie growing up; Wayne standing tall. Damn, does anyone even come close today? Eastwood maybe. Gran Torino was a great flick, but not comparing here.

[@Cougar111469]

Funny if you notice- whenever they hit the surf, the Plymouth hydroplanes but the Chevy and the Cad just plow right through!

[@FylthyBeest]

AmanamanIII, I hope I got the screen name right. Thanks for posting this. Way cool.

[@Cougar111469]

That '69 Plymouth is a good 500 lbs. lighter than the Chevy and a whopping half-ton lighter than the Caddy. Consider that plus the fact that most police-issue Plymouths came with high-compression 383 cubic-inch big-blocks under the hood vs. the low-compression, smog-controlled 350 / 400 smallblock in the Chev and the torquey but low-revving low-compression Caddy motor. Plus Mopar's famed torsion bar suspension. On dry pavement it wouldn't even be a contest. The Plymouth would eat them.

[@Hotspace5170]

At 2:30 the music changes when “MCQ” gets the Mac-10 out of the bag. And you know the rest….

[@gabrieldjatienza6971]

McQ has avenged the death of his Trans Am, flattened by two trucks in an earlier scene!

[@dfaircloth30]

Looks like Wayne did some driving.... not all. That Mac 10 is pretty bad ass.

[@JJfromPhilly67]

Cars today would probably not handle this chase and the SUVs are just station wagons with big gnarly tires. How would modern cars handle the sea water with all the electronics. The cinema photography of this chase was fantastic. I wonder how fast commercially available drones can fly?

[@paulsheehan789]

lois plymouth had a 1968 grill but was a 1969 (headrests)

[@Boomstick88]

well to be honest, most films back then wer a bit corny in places but they wer still good

[@HerbWalker]

Barry sent me here from Moss Pawn.............LOL

[@gumballrally427]

McQ ... gettin' it fuckin' done!

[@Glenn1967ful]

I'm English, Projectno, but I'm old enough to remember when American cars were far better than junk like Morris Marinas and Vauxhall Vivas we had in England and cost about the same while offering one hell of a lot more. 1.3 litres or 6 litres, tell me what you would sooner have at the time.

[@markedjuan]

Goof. At the end of the chase, the Cadillac stops and parks facing the ocean. But when John Wayne and Diana Mauldur get off their Plymouth, the Cadillac is already facing the opposite direction. Is that sloppy direction or just great stunt driving?

[@jondavidmcnabb]

You've been Moss Pawned Pilgrim!!!!

[@ALPHA000102]

John Wayne was offered but turned down the role of Dirty Harry. That is why he made this film, it is completely underrated. John Wayne made the best police movies there has ever been or ever will be. They beat Clint Eastwood's performance by at least a mile easy. This movie McQ and his next police movie and film of his career Brannigan proves it easily. I like the appearance of the MAC-10 submachine gun. McQ was really the movie to introduce it to the general public and created a demand for it.