DeTomaso Mailing List: April 2000, Message #380

Al wrote:

>Joe, is this the one by Pyramid films? Claud Lelouche? (sp)

>>>Yup.  For those that don't know, Claude LeLouche was sort of the Steven 
Spielberg of France in the late '60's and early '70's.

>Do you know what the car used was (Ferrari is the rumor)?

>>>Ferrari 275 GTB.  In fact, they were in Paris shooting a conventional 
movie when he got the crazy idea to shoot this silly mad dash across the 
city.  He robbed a fully gyro-stabilized camera mount from the front of a 
camera truck and grafted it onto the front of (his own?) Ferrari.  Nobody 
knows who the driver was, but it's a safe bet that it was probably a 
professional.

If you watch it carefully you'll see that the sound track is actually not in 
synch with the visual track.  It's about 1.5 seconds behind, so you still 
hear tire squeal long after the driver has complted the turn and is driving 
straight.  However I do not believe that the sound was dubbed in after the 
fact, because the old Michelin XWX tires of the day would certainly squeal 
like hell.

>How do we order?

>>>Didn't he list his phone number?

916 526-3033

>(Listers, if you haven't seen this film, you must get it.)

>>>ABSOLUTELY!  It's a total riot.  We normally show it on the big screen in 
Las Vegas every year too.  It's probably the most anti-social film ever made! 
:>)

Mike