George C. Scott as an aging former getaway driver for the mob. He's hired to drive an escaped Mafia hitman across Spain and into France. It turns out the Mafia only broke him out of prison so they could murder him.
Had a scene of George C. Scott driving a lovely 1950's BMW 503, a two door convertible sportscar, being chased by a Jaguar sedan and, perhaps strangely to American viewers, a Dodge Dart.
Dodges must have been rather chic in Europe back then. In Bunuel's That Obscure Object of Desire, a rich guy rides in the back of a chauffeur-driven Dodge Dart.
These were hitmen setting out to ambush a car on a two-lane highway. I would have expected them to be heavily armed, like with submachine guns, but one of them climbed out of a wrecked car with just a revolver.
John Huston started out as director but quit because George C. Scott kept arguing with him. Scott never picked up his Oscar for Patton (1970) but it may have still gone to his head. Richard Fleischer took over as director.
Spain looked beautiful.
With Tony Musante and Trish Van Devere as his gun moll. Colleen Dewhurst who was married to Scott as a Spanish prostitute.
Available with some other '70's car movies on The Criterion Channel.
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