1980’s Car Chase Greatness! The Outsider Features A Mustang And A Volare, In A Car Chase In France!

(Words by Scott Liggett) Several years ago, Bangshift Chad and I started doing live reviews of movie car chases on social media. It was very much like what podcasts have become today. We would pick a movie’s chase scene and go over what we liked and didn’t like. We also stayed away from the ones that every gearhead knew and had seen eleventy jillion times. So, no Bullitt or Vanishing Point. The object was to bring light to ones that maybe you haven’t seen.

I had been watching a bunch of chase scenes from movies and TV shows that I had never heard of on Youtube. The best part of these different channels is that they edited out the rest of the movie or show, and just left the car chase. So, I didn’t have to sit through 90 minutes of possibly bad acting, scripts, and general cheesiness.

Now, we thought we’d just show you the chase scene we thought had chops and let you decide. Today’s chase is from the 1983 French film called “Le Marginal”  (aka The Outsider). Directed by Jacques Deray and scored by Ennio Morricone of “The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly” fame. The chase has our hero cop who drives a 1967 Mustang coupe that looks like it came from the road race circuit chasing a 1975 Plymouth Volaire sedan. Pretty odd choice for a French film taking place in Marseille, France. This chase scene has no music to drown out the sound of the cars.