What's Up, Doc? (1972) - First Time Driving Scene (8/10) | Movieclips

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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Howard (Ryan O'Neal) and Judy (Barbra Streisand) hightail it through the streest of San Francisco with a whole lot of cars in hot pursuit.
FILM DESCRIPTION:
With Howard Hawks's Bringing Up Baby (1938) as his blueprint, Peter Bogdanovich resurrected and payed homage to 1930s screwball comedy in What's Up, Doc? (1972). When wacky co-ed Judy Maxwell (Barbra Streisand, in the Katharine Hepburn part) spies nebbishy musicologist Howard Bannister (Ryan O'Neal in bespectacled Cary Grant mode) in a San Francisco hotel lobby, she decides that Howard and his precious igneous rocks are right up her alley. Too bad Howard already has a fiance, the propriety-fixated Eunice (Madeline Kahn in her film debut). Using all her arcane knowledge from brief stays at numerous colleges, Judy tries to charm her way to a $20,000 grant for Howard, and Howard himself, at a banquet with grantor Frederick Larrabee (Austin Pendleton). Things get even more complicated the next day when Judy's underwear-filled overnight bag gets mixed up with Howard's rock bag, which gets mixed up with Mrs. Van Hoskins' bag of jewels, which gets mixed up with Mr. Smith's bag of top secret government papers. All sides converge at Larrabee's mod townhouse and the chase begins. Retaining Hawks' machine-gun pace (as well as the sly pop culture referentiality of Billy Wilder), Bogdanovich and writers Buck Henry, David Newman, and Robert Benton updated the opposites-attract screwball convention for contemporary times. O'Neal gently parodied not only Grant but also his own Love Story (1970) preppy, while Kahn represents stiff-wigged 1950s manners as opposed to Streisand's long-haired, pants-wearing free spirit. The happy ending, in which Cole Porter-belting youth wins out over old manners, found favor with audiences, as What's Up, Doc? became one of the most popular films of 1972, and the second hit in a row for Bogdanovich after 1971's The Last Picture Show.
CREDITS:
TM & © Warner Bros. (1972)
Cast: Ryan O'Neal, Austin Pendleton, Madeline Kahn, Barbra Streisand
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Producers: Peter Bogdanovich, Paul Lewis
Screenwriters: Buck Henry, David Newman, Robert Benton, Peter Bogdanovich
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[@johnnichols8553]

This might just be the best car chase scene in the history of movies. This was back when they did everything for real, no CGI. They didn't have city permission to drive down those steps, and they really damaged them (the scars are still there today).

[@kis2kool]

John Nichols lol I was thinking about how they got away with damaging the steps when I saw this clip. Still there huh. May visit one day! Surprised the city didn’t sue to fix

[@kurtvonfricken6829]

San Fran is a sewer anyway.

[@chipmichaels5197]

@@kurtvonfricken6829 so's your mother.

[@keithwilson6060]

A lot of it looked really dangerous. The last car to drive into the water had a stuntman fly up above the car, which could have hit him and dragged him underwater.

[@JustRememberWhoYoureWorkingFor]

@@keithwilson6060 yeah and even if the car didn't hit him, just the fact of hitting the water at that speed must be painful already

[@richardsantalone9380]

Ryan O'Neal: "What are you doing? This is a one way street!" Barbra Streisand: "We're only going one way!" LMAO!

[@briansmith9439]

"Oh, let me do it, for Pete's sake!" Ironically, the name of her next comedy.

[@12classics39]

I love the way he yells “What? NO!!!!!” at 0:53 LOL

[@dfa3366]

The scars of the cars coming down those steps are still there. They did not get any permits for filming for that. I love it!!!!

[@abigalebuss359]

The most terribly, fantastic, funny movie I have ever seen! My family and I can recite the script word for word 🤣

[@nelsonphilip4520]

Awesome! It's right up there with that granddaddy of them all.....It's a Mad,Mad, Mad, Mad, World!

[@azimisyauqieabdulwahab9401]

@@nelsonphilip4520 another chasing movie

[@MVR326]

LMAO.. 3:20 with the seagulls watching the whole fiasco, and the sound of ferry horn at 3:23 as the guy gets ejected from the car.. Truly brilliant comedy

[@Nderak]

so good

[@thebrandkennedy]

That's the part I came here for.

[@deeklithgow1765]

"Where they going?? ..aaAaaAaaah *Beep*"

[@keith536]

That horn is actually from the 69' Cadillac convertible. That 4 note horn is Cadillac all the way. But I do love this scene.

[@azimisyauqieabdulwahab9401]

3:09 Watch out!!!

[@austinmorrison6953]

“We can make it...we can make it! I don’t think we can make i-SPLASH!” Hahahaha!

[@marliehodge9763]

Watched this film for the first time a few days ago as im a tad in love with Barbra striesand... and honestly i think its one of my favourites now

[@wakeupcall2665]

It has been my favourite for a good forty years, ever since being a teenager. The scenes in the hotel with the lift doors that open and close, and that music which is playing in the lift, is just brilliant. As is Eunice, and that woman with the diamonds in the hotel lobby. And Barbra, throughout the film. It just makes me sooo happy!

[@jennifersman7990]

Say what you will about Streisand, when she's got a good script she can be hilarious. I saw this in the theater and the whole movie is just as funny all these years later. I love that shot of the guy flying out of the Cadillac as it hits the water

[@mattrd]

Haha it was just a dummy, but I crack up every time I see it flying out of the car.

[@Graphite42]

The stunt man who performed it was knocked unconscious, and didn't remember doing the stunt.

[@abby.tucker]

I die laughing every time I watch it 😂💀

[@JustRememberWhoYoureWorkingFor]

@@Graphite42 i didn't know that about the stuntman but doesn't surprise me, hitting the water at that speed must be really dangerous, and getting knocked out in the water is not something you want to happen to you

[@thethirdman225]

Yes to all.

[@12classics39]

Oh, Ryan. You, Barbra, and this film have meant so much to me since the first day I saw it. Because of it, you were one of the major figures of my childhood, as I watched this film over and over and over again. You truly captured the essence of a classic Harold Lloyd/Cary Grant type, with flawless line deliveries (“NOW I REALLY CAN’T SEE!”). Every time I watch this, you still make me laugh and laugh. You weren’t a perfect person, but you brought great joy to me through this gem of a film. I can’t believe you’re really gone. RIP.

[@kimberlyj.sullivan9304]

"We can make it...we can make it........I don't think we can make it!" Lol

[@MVR326]

Look at the Seagulls watching the whole thing... LOL

[@whostosay3256]

Only she could have done this movie - they were all great! Hysterically funny even 40 years later

[@JustRememberWhoYoureWorkingFor]

@@whostosay3256 almost 50 years

[@MVR326]

Still as hilarious as when I first saw it as a child at Radio City... And this movie either had to be stunt persons dream or nightmare !

[@tiner27]

LOVE the birds' heads turning watching golf-pants guy fly through the air and into the bay. Hilarious.

[@mpa1931]

The writing of this movie is just genius

[@airdriver]

When I was a kid back in the 70s, this would come on tv and my whole family would sit down, watch it together and laugh our asses off. Sometimes for days after. Gòod times.

[@TonyinMBSC8669]

Such a Classic Hollywood comedy. Cracks me up every time I watch it.

[@nosuchthing8]

Thank for the review. I have never seen this movie, but want a nice comedy to cheer up a friend of mine. English is not her first language, but she has an intense intelect. Do you recommend it?

[@airdriver]

@@nosuchthing8 I do. It’s a lighthearted old style movie from the 1970s

[@peterjohnisback]

I first saw this movie when I was 4 years old.

[@brianmartinico8190]

Gosh, I have become my dad, they don’t make them like they used too. One of the best comedies ever!

[@toddjonathanbradshaw3945]

For those who remember the simplicity of 3 channels to tune into - unto The ABC Friday Night Movie, I send Greetings to YOU. This movie is a classic that is remembered decades afterward in memory. I always see some new detail that cracks me up in the storyline. That is a rare thing anymore.

[@robbyel3958]

"We can make it. We can make it. I don't think we can make it"

[@hawaiidispenser]

Breathtaking driving and stunts... while current movies with CGI leave you mostly indifferent and numb.

[@richardsantalone9380]

At 2:38 : Ryan O'Neal: "I can't see where we're going!" Barbra Streisand (taking his glasses): "Here, let me see your glasses!" Ryan O'Neal: "NOW I REALLY CAN'T SEE!" ROTFLMAO!

[@vintagehippie3647]

Can't tell you how much I miss movies like this. Recently there is so much fake CGI and darkness.

[@swaldron5558]

Yes I hate horrible dark background etc.

[@reneastle8447]

The goodness is it won't be that way forever. There will be more movies like this nowadays.

[@endorphinzz]

3:17 - the guy driving the convertible is having a blast lol...

[@12classics39]

You get the sense that he has lived a dull and lonely life up till this point and so joining a crazy car chase is a dream come true for him.

[@endorphinzz]

@@12classics39 -- LOL...exactly.

[@felixvargas7132]

You gotta give kudos to that stuntman in the very last part- risked decapitation and then launched from the car. Hell of a stunt!

[@BrettTwinSavage]

I just read that "What's Up Doc?" was the first American-made movie to name the stunt actors in the credits.

[@davidgoulden5956]

You're right. First time I watched it (many years ago) I thought Wow, that looks terribly dangerous.

[@12classics39]

Said stuntman’s name was Loren Janes, co-founder of the Stuntmen’s Association who doubled for many big Hollywood names throughout his career including Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Jack Nicholson, and even Debbie Reynolds. When he performed this stunt, he was actually knocked out cold by the impact and had to be pulled from the water. When he woke up, everyone congratulated him on doing the stunt successfully despite his injury, and he answered “What stunt?” Even after being shown the footage, he never remembered doing it.

[@mattrd]

We can make it!! ......I don't think we can make it. LOL

[@gregoryricks1322]

“What on earth are you doing with Harold Bannister’s rocks?”

[@SweptAway529]

That's HOWARD Bannister.

[@gato0082]

😂❣️Madeline Khans wig ❣️❣️🤣😂😂😂

[@williamphillips6049]

As an old guy now I can appreciate how incredibly dangerous all these stunts were. NO WAY you could make a movie like this now. It looks hellaciously more dangerous than the stunts were for "Bullitt". (How did the guy ripping the awning with his neck at 60 mph keep from getting it torn off?? . . 'Or at least from getting a bloody rash?) As a 57 year old fart; I'm respectful of the work, talent and risks. I'm still laughing my head off though like I did when I was six!

[@BrettTwinSavage]

I just read where this was the first American-made movie that listed the stunt actors by name in the credits. (I don't know if that's true, but I read it! 🤷🏻‍♂️)

[@williamphillips6049]

@@BrettTwinSavage They deserved it. They all do. Twenty or thirty years ago they even tried to have an awards ceremony (Ala Oscars) but it never caught on. That was taking it a little too far . . sorry.

[@BrettTwinSavage]

@@williamphillips6049 Absolutely. Well-deserved. Leaving out the side-bar of who deserves what most, they deserve a place in the rolling (or page-turning in this case) credits as much as any cast or crew member that contributes to what we experience while munching on our popcorn laced with peanut M&Ms. Re: awards. I wonder if it was thought to encourage performing outside the bounds of safety regs or something? And/or if a union thing was stirred into that safety pot? Guess it depends on what the awards recognized. (Longest awning rip by neck? Highest banner swing in a comedy or musical? 😝). Of course that's just questionable speculation from the uninformed. (I.e., me.)

[@ziaahmed9842]

RIP Ryan ' O ' Neal💐

[@Mavis308]

Boss Hogg driving the 50's Cadillac

[@larryquantz195]

The guy who was ejected at 3:23... he FLEW out of there. He earned his money that day for sure.

[@jpsned]

I've never forgotten that scene! So funny!

[@12classics39]

He was actually knocked out cold by the impact and, for the rest of his life, never remembered doing this stunt.

[@reginaldjackson4173]

Next to Bullitt, this was the best and funniest car chase through the streets of San Francisco.

[@12classics39]

Bullitt was dramatic and suspenseful. This is just plain hilarious. Neither chase is better or worse than the other, in my book.

[@spencerfrankclayton4348]

Great!! 😂😂 When car chase scenes were unique and funny. I wonder if that Beetle is Herbie's (the Love Bug) cousin. 😏

[@BKAllmighty]

Airplane Schmairplane. THIS is the funniest movie ever made.

[@TonyinMBSC8669]

My mom took me to see this when I was 12. I bout pissed myself laughing.

[@thenewmrrm1938]

I just love how the guy at 2:01 waves at the dude XD

[@TheRoyalBavarian]

One of the best comedies ever filmed. Too bad people can't see it in a big movie house like I first did in 1972. I laughed so hard I feel out of my seat into the aisle.

[@andreadudas94]

"i think we can make it, I think we can make it...I dont think we can make it!" Kills me every time!! Love this movie so much!

[@totoro3007]

Someday I want to make movies liked this, like that will ever happen.

[@jimvinespresents...8463]

Oh my...absolutely, positively, hands down one of the funniest movies ever made.

[@Howrider65]

The good old days of fun movies and cheap cars..

[@JustRememberWhoYoureWorkingFor]

The convertible Cadillac wasn't cheap

[@iceg7146]

2:48: "Judy, I can't see!" (Judy puts his glasses back on, and he sees the pier) "...oh God, I can see." (Takes off his glasses and throws them out the window) Lol. My favorite part of the movie

[@ronaldlee7566]

Such a daredevil that scene Barbra driving the car without fear. 😊🚗

[@King_Colombia_Inc]

3:07 I laughed so goddamn hard, my heart stopped. 😂😂😂

[@JustRememberWhoYoureWorkingFor]

Barbara as Judy Maxwell is so lovely

[@arvindsharma8635]

That guy at 0:32 its me everytime

[@12classics39]

That guy is actually Frank Marshall, the producer’s assistant who has now become a great producer in his own right.

[@forevernow2429]

I used to take my glasses off when my wife drove! I felt happier not seeing possible doom....

[@rogerkincaid931]

Oh man, that was really funny.

[@DanielSelk]

Apparently they didn't have permission to have the cars go down the stairs and it left them damaged, which you can still see to this day. It forced movies in San Fransisco to have an itemized list of all they needed or are going to do if a film was ever shooting in the city again.

[@archlab007]

Total Bugs Bunny...How'd Ya'll like when Babs is driving for the first part of the scene, then Ryan is suddenly the Driver. LUV IT! And Gotta love the Ubiquitous Plymouth Satellite!

[@jennifersman7990]

I wouldn't be surprised if Bogdanovich wanted this in the movie as a comic response to the chase in Bullit, they probably went down many of the same streets

[@RaymondHng]

Naw. Not quite the same streets.

[@MrLarryQ]

BTW, some trivia-- those cars going into the water aren't at Fisherman's Wharf. If you look closely at the last jump you can see the Bay Bridge to the left, not the Golden Gate Bridge. That jump must have been filmed near Hunter's Point Naval shipyard or (possibly) South San Francisco.

[@andrewdutton3831]

3:22 I'm surprised I've never seen this stunt before. Spectacularly dangerous if that was a real guy (and it looks like it was). People have been paralyzed from impacting the water horizontally at speeds as low as 25 mph.

[@Nderak]

I dont believe it to be a real human, though i have no source. just after he hits the water, something else hits the water like 20 feet back, i believe that could be part of a launching device. Stuntmen do have ways to make a water impact less hurtfull. Its easier to pull it off in disturbed water over smooth and clear water.

[@Nderak]

If you notice (slow down to half speed) we never see him hit the water. He is obscured by the splash from the Cadillac. it is possible that there is a hidden cut or something. If anyone has an interview or BTS on this movie id love to see it.

[@andrewdutton3831]

@@Nderak Nice to see someone is as curious about this as I am. I've watched it about 10 more times, and still can't see how this was pulled off. He (or the dummy) is definitely in a crouching (tucked, knees bent 90 degrees, bent forward at the waist) position and about 3 frames later, his (or the dummy's) whole body is almost vertical, with arms out (in a flapping position). So, if it was a dummy, it had complex joints throughout. Now...there is a weird cylinder object behind the driver...about the size of a gold bag. I wonder if it was some kind of spring or catapult. Would love to see a behind the scenes on this.

[@andrewdutton3831]

Oh check this out!!! Just found this over at IMDB TRIVIA for this film: "In the scene where the cars drive into the water, the stunt man who is standing up in the Cadillac convertible suffered a severe concussion when he hit the water. He could not recall doing the stunt for years afterwards. "

[@Nderak]

@@andrewdutton3831 Wow that is gnarly! glad he survived though. I've done a couple google search related to stunts in the film and it seems as if there are stunt breakdown or reaction pieces on the internet, which is sad. I also can't find any behind the scenes anywhere. Edit: it appears there is some in the DVD release, I only have the VHS tape so I must go without :(.

[@timpriddy349]

That 383 plymouth took a big chunk out of those stairs

[@fan.80s_90s]

That has definitely cost the city of San Francisco for the damages.

[@user-km8cl1iq1u]

-What are you doing?- Driving.- I know that!- For the first time!Ha ha!А как она потом смотрит на движущиеся дворники это вообще отпад! 🙂

[@Beargirl1359]

I still haven’t been able to retrace the route of this chase

[@spencerfrankclayton4348]

This feels so much like a Disney Herbie chase scene. I like to pretend that the Beetle is Herbie's brother.

[@corneliuswhite5139]

Positively Brilliant!!😉

[@002DrEvil]

The bicycle delivery vehicle chase scene is even better than this and is in the same film!

[@spencerfrankclayton4348]

3:24

[@spencerfrankclayton4348]

If this scene wasn't inspired by *The Love Bug,* I don't know what was.

[@chancelearson1949]

R.I.P. Ryan O’Neal (1941-2023) Dies At Age 82

[@Nderak]

They detsroyed those steps.. They didnt have a permit to film. Overall a fantastic chase and a great tribute to bullitt.

[@reneastle8447]

Imagine if the are more madcap comedy films with slapstick car chases like this, that would be more astonishing. All of them will be done for real, without CGI assistance.

[@connorwain9583]

If you listen closely the Vw beetles engine is the same As Herbies from the love bug

[@Janet71990]

0:07 That’s Herbie’s Engine Sound?

[@ricardovelasco3976]

Sensational!

[@christopherjohncampbell2594]

Brilliant stuff ! So engaging

[@xavierpaul49]

3:23 3:25 cracks me up all the time 😂😂😂

[@trevorkeyes6067]

Same scenes like in bullitt 4 years earlier

[@MsZoita]

Who are you? I'm Eunice Burns! Who cares who she is?!?! :-)))))))

[@gato0082]

🙏🙏✨❣️😄This makes me happy...... & I was not happy today, thank U ❣️😄🙂

[@nelsonphilip4520]

I feel this chase secen is as good if not better the Steve McQueen in Bullit. Certainly more entertaining IMHO.

[@williamjones7163]

This movie is a testimonial to the mechanical engineering superiority of the VW Beetle. I learned to drive on a Beetle. Another testimonial to the mechanical engineering superiority of the VW Beetle.

[@rosskerr1439]

3:23 Homer: SAVE ME, CHAKA KHAN, CHAKA KHAN!!!

[@PhoenixProdLLC]

Bwahhhh haha that's the fing bomb man!

[@austinmorrison6953]

3:20 anyone else feel their neck hurt at this?

[@BigFanofCars]

Cars used in this scene: Blue Volkswagen Beetle Black 1950's Cadillac Limousine Yellow Taxi Black Cadillac Convertible

[@keith536]

These scenes were probably hard to set up. Those Cadillacs were very wide. I always thought this movie was very funny and impressive.

[@jaredjdigirolamo7686]

u can do this scene again if u remade the movie but who would ryan o neal his character would cast and babs who would u cast in her role?

[@jennifersman7990]

I’ve been running this through my mind for a long time Judy Maxwell-Jennifer Lawrence or Kaley Cuoco Howard Bannister-Bradley Cooper Eunice Burns-Adele Mister Larrabee-Jim Parsons Granted, there’s a LOT of other names that would be great too

[@12classics39]

This film is flawless as is. It must never be remade.

[@johnnygunzfilmbuff7821]

What's funny about this car chase scene it's a parody to the movie Bulliett with Steve McQueen.

[@tracynation239]

Premium. ♡ T.E.N.

[@lucyannanixon7714]

THANK'S DOCTOR'S ❤RED CROSS HEART'S ❌APPEALING FOR FUNDING 2022

[@ConradSpoke]

How did two of the most horrible people in Hollywood make such a funny movie?