-Goldfinger is famous for other reasons and other settings, but the scenes of Bond, James Bond cruising the Alps in his Aston give an excellent idea of what some of the passes are like.
-There are also four racing movies set entirely in Europe, with Grand Prix and LeMans being the most famous.
Almost as famous is 1977's Bobby Deerfield from , starring a completely unbelievable Al Pacino as an F1 driver who falls for a dying woman as they tour the continent. Not a good film, but lots of lovely footage.
Roger Corman's The Young Racers is also set in the Grand Prix world, and while its story and dialogue leaves much to be desired, the footage of the races and the racetracks in 1963 is quite beautiful. It provides a time capsule of what many people feel are the glory days of racing, and makes you wish you could have been in Monaco's Café De Paris at the time.
-While there aren't really any car chases in The Day of The Jackal, there's a lot of footage involving Edward Fox driving that Alfa roadster through Europe, and the movie is one of the five best thrillers of all time.
-To Catch a Thief doesn't have much car footage, but looking at Grace Kelly as she and Cary Grant head out for a picnic makes you wish you were smooth enough to be in her presence, and I believe many women feel the same about him.
Other films that involve driving through Europe that are fun for their own reasons include
-the Yellow Rolls-Royce (any film featuring Art Carney can't be all bad)
-Avanti is a little-known Billy Wilder film, but this cynical ode to Italy and its charms is one of my favorites from the director of The Apartment, Some Like It Hot and other classics
-Bob Le Flambeur involves a French mobster from 1955, and it's all about hats and Gitanes and trench coats and attitude and jumping out of cars on rainy Parisian roads and looking cool
-The Happy Road is a family-oriented film from 1957, featuring Gene Kelly as a father who has to come to terms with European ways as he searches for his runaway child
-in 1975, John Wayne was Brannigan, a Chicago cop who goes to England to bring back a crook and ends up trashing a large part of London in the process, and for a complete change of pace
-there's Genevieve, which is a delightful and witty comedy about two couples driving vintage cars in the annual London to Brighton race in 1953.
-There are also four racing movies set entirely in Europe, with Grand Prix and LeMans being the most famous.
Almost as famous is 1977's Bobby Deerfield from , starring a completely unbelievable Al Pacino as an F1 driver who falls for a dying woman as they tour the continent. Not a good film, but lots of lovely footage.
Roger Corman's The Young Racers is also set in the Grand Prix world, and while its story and dialogue leaves much to be desired, the footage of the races and the racetracks in 1963 is quite beautiful. It provides a time capsule of what many people feel are the glory days of racing, and makes you wish you could have been in Monaco's Café De Paris at the time.
-While there aren't really any car chases in The Day of The Jackal, there's a lot of footage involving Edward Fox driving that Alfa roadster through Europe, and the movie is one of the five best thrillers of all time.
-To Catch a Thief doesn't have much car footage, but looking at Grace Kelly as she and Cary Grant head out for a picnic makes you wish you were smooth enough to be in her presence, and I believe many women feel the same about him.
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-the Yellow Rolls-Royce (any film featuring Art Carney can't be all bad)
-Avanti is a little-known Billy Wilder film, but this cynical ode to Italy and its charms is one of my favorites from the director of The Apartment, Some Like It Hot and other classics
-Bob Le Flambeur involves a French mobster from 1955, and it's all about hats and Gitanes and trench coats and attitude and jumping out of cars on rainy Parisian roads and looking cool
-The Happy Road is a family-oriented film from 1957, featuring Gene Kelly as a father who has to come to terms with European ways as he searches for his runaway child
-in 1975, John Wayne was Brannigan, a Chicago cop who goes to England to bring back a crook and ends up trashing a large part of London in the process, and for a complete change of pace
-there's Genevieve, which is a delightful and witty comedy about two couples driving vintage cars in the annual London to Brighton race in 1953.