Driver

Originaltitel: The Driver

1978
16
1 Std. 31 Min.

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Psychological Thriller Action Crime Thriller

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,1/10

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7/10

Walter Hill's stylish, detached and antisocial tribute to driving

The Driver is a stylish, detached and antisocial tribute to driving for the sake of driving and crime for the sake of crime, made at a time when those things still had a palpable meaning for most big-city Americans. The writer/director is Walter Hill, penner of the not too dissimilar cult film The Getaway a few years earlier. And although he made more successful films later on (notably 48 Hrs.), The Driver is arguably among his most gutsy and hard-hitting. It's worth a watch for the fervour it represents and instils, if nothing else. Ryan O'Neal, Bruce Dern and Isabelle Adjani are the attractive trio of lead actors.

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This 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 Thomas Crown ist nicht zu fassen (1968) and wrote The Getaway - Ihre Chance ist gleich null (1972).

Patzer
In 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.

Zitate
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.

Alternative Versionen
A 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.

Verbindungen
Featured in Automan: The Biggest Game in Town (1984)

Soundtracks
One 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