We all love a good car chase. Of course, we all slow down like cattle to take a look at car accidents too, so maybe we’re all a little morbid in our love affair with the automobile. Hollywood has fed our appetite for chaotic automotive madness with some of the most death defying car chase sequences we could imagine. Of course, being a muscle car magazine, our favorites tend to sway towards Steve McQueen’s stellar “Bullitt” sequence, or the Charger vs. Challenger showdown in “Death Proof.” But would you have ever considered the Italian/German crime drama “The Master Touch?”
Starring American cinema star Kirk “I am Spartacus” Douglas, “Un Omo da Rispettare” (the film’s original Italian title) features an intense car chase between a winged ’58 Plymouth Fury and an Opel Kommodore. We found this video on a thread over at DodgeCharger.com. Filmed on the streets of Hamburg, Germany, this car chase is not without its flaws…and they’re pretty damned big. First, watch was the Plymouth switches from being a two-door to a four-door. Then, be mesmerized by how the ’58 Plymouth quickly switches to a ’60 Dodge sedan and back to the 50’s coupe. Oh yeah, and the fins change a couple times too.
How could this possibly be, you ask? Easy. During filming, producers had a difficult time sourcing multiple ’58 Fury’s for the filming, so they scouted a ’60 Dodge, fabricated some faux fins for the tail, painted it a shade of gray they deemed “close enough,” and went to town. Also, as one commenter noted on the YouTube page, the Plymouth’s driver has a strange resemblance to Harpo Marx. Nonetheless, the action is good and remember, if you say the word, you’ll win $100…