Un chauffeur à gages devient la dernière mission d'un détective tenace.Un chauffeur à gages devient la dernière mission d'un détective tenace.Un chauffeur à gages devient la dernière mission d'un détective tenace.
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- AnecdotesThis film was originally written for Steve McQueen, but he turned it down. According to Walter Hill, "He didn't want to do anything that had to do with cars at that time. He felt he had already done that and it was pretty hard to argue with that." Hill had been assistant director on Bullitt (1968) and L'affaire Thomas Crown (1968) and wrote Le guet-apens (1972).
- GaffesIn a couple of shots in the first car chase the lid is missing from the trunk of the Driver's car. However, it isn't until a couple of minutes later that we see the police actually blow the lid off with a shotgun blast.
- Citations
The Detective: I respect a man that's good at what he does. I'll tell you something, I'm very good at what I do.
- Autres versionsA version of The Driver seen on TV years ago included a pre-credit prologue, in which Bruce Dern's and Matt Clark's characters meet for the first time, and Ronee Blakley gives Isabelle Adjani her assignment as an alibi. The CBS/Fox home video version begins abruptly with the opening credits, omitting this prologue.
- ConnexionsFeatured in Automan: The Biggest Game in Town (1984)
- Bandes originalesOne Fine Day
(uncredited)
Written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King
performed by Julie Budd (uncredited)
Heard just prior to the first chase in the pool room
Commentaire en vedette
Those were The Driver's words after he take a crew of bank robbers for a test drive in their dodgy looking orange Mercedes and proceeds to trash it completely, knocking off both bumpers, tearing off a door, bumping both sides and flattening the roof. A classic scene and this is a good, late 70s action thriller from Walter Hill. It's film noir at it's best and it's pretty cool that every character doesn't have an actual name, we've got The Driver, The Detective, The Player and so on. Ryan O'Neal is cool without actually having to say very much and Bruce Dern is just Bruce Dern, wild eyed and crazy as the Detective determined to catch the Driver by using some strange policing. Isabelle Adjani is very quiet and a sexy foil for things to revolve around. The car chases and mash-ups are as good as some of the stuff used in Bullit, French Connection, The Seven-Ups and other top rate chase scenes.
Dern is a highlight as he is bonkers as ever and Walter Hill does a great job in direction and keeping things nice and compact.
Check it out!
Dern is a highlight as he is bonkers as ever and Walter Hill does a great job in direction and keeping things nice and compact.
Check it out!
- andymcneill75
- 14 nov. 2009
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Détails
- Date de sortie
- Pays d’origine
- Langue
- Aussi connu sous le nom de
- Driver
- Lieux de tournage
- Torchy's Bar - 218 1/2 West Fifth Street, Downtown, Los Angeles, Californie, États-Unis(Exterior bar scenes as detectives exit.)
- sociétés de production
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- Budget
- 4 000 000 $ US (estimation)
- Brut – à l'échelle mondiale
- 1 324 $ US
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