James Bond films feature three times in `Best Ever Car Chase` survey results

This Is London has reported on a new survey carried out by Choices Video to find the world`s most popular car chases ever seen on film.

Aston Martin-driving James Bond managed two places in the Top 10, with 1964`s "Goldfinger" - which introduced Sean Connery`s gadget-heavy DB5 - and "Die Another Day", from 2002, in which Pierce Brosnan`s secret agent takes part in a chase on ice.

Another Bond managed to make it further down the list at No 16 - Roger Moore was chased in his Lotus by motorcycles, a car and a helicopter in "The Spy Who Loved Me" from 1977.

Steve McQueen`s thrilling 10-minute car chase in Bullitt was voted the best pursuit scene in cinema history.

The 1968 film`s chase through the steep-hilled streets of San Francisco - with McQueen`s Detective Frank Bullitt behind the wheel of a Ford Mustang GT 390 - was voted top in a poll of 5,500 film fans. The movie later inspired a TV advert.

In second place was Gone in 60 Seconds, a 1974 film remade in 2000 with Nicolas Cage and Angelina Jolie, in which the director, HB Halicki, also performed all his own stunts in a 40-minute pursuit.

The breath-taking sequence from the 1971 Oscar-winner The French Connection, in which policeman Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle - played by Gene Hackman - chases a suspect on a subway train through New York, came third.

The top British film was The Italian Job from 1969, in which a gang led by Michael Caine pilot red, white and blue Minis around the streets - and sewers - of Turin.

Hazel Laking, of Choices Video, which carried out the survey, said: "Having Bullitt at the top of a list of greatest all time car chases is kind of expected. Every genre benefits from a good, solid car chase."

Bullitt, made long before computer-generated special effects became commponplace, left many recent movies trailing in its wake. But there were still plenty of Hollywood blockbusters in the top 20.

In fourth place was Ronin, from 1998, which starred Robert De Niro and featured high-speed car chases through Nice and Paris.

Arnold Schwarzenegger was at No 12 for his truck chases in Terminator 2: Judgement Day.

The Fast and the Furious, starring Vin Diesel, was at No 13. The movie was little more than a series of chases in Los Angeles.

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