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Dave in Toronto wrote:
> On Sep 19, 11:55 am, Undecided wrote:
>> Studemania wrote:
>>> Did you see the car crash into anything to cause the explosion
>>> at the end of the chase? Try slow monton and tell me what.
>>> Nothing hit the fuel tanks!
>> It always looked to me like one of those low-bid projects, like in scifi
>> flicks where we see a helicopter drop behind a hill and then there's
>> dust kicked up and an explosion and the camera shakes and then the
>> survivor staggers into view. We see the bad guys approach the pumps,
>> then the screen is filled with fire. Cheap.
>>
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> Best gas station explosion. Hitchcock's "The Birds" from a bird's eye
> view yet.
Since I intensely dislike _The Birds_ and refuse to watch it ever again,
I'll have to take your word for it.
My personal favorite does not involve a chase. It does involve W.C.
Fields and a cigarette lighter (_The Big Broadcast of 1938_).
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