虎口拔牙 (1978)
The Driver
赖恩奥尼路饰演一名司机，他受聘于一班银行劫匪出任司机。布鲁士甸饰演一名破案率极高的警探，可是今次却老猫烧须，遇上机智多谋的贼车司机，再加上伊莎贝雅珍妮所饰演的美丽女演员，令他进退两难。其间枪战连场，当然不少得惊险场面，且看谁胜谁负！
演员阵容
- 瑞安·奥尼尔 — The Driver
- 布鲁斯·邓恩 — The Detective
- 伊莎贝尔·阿佳妮 — The Player
- 罗妮·布莱克利 — The Connection
- 马特·克拉克 — Red Plainclothesman
- Felice Orlandi — Gold Plainclothesman
- 约瑟夫·沃尔什 — Glasses
- 鲁迪·拉莫斯 — Teeth
- Denny Macko — Exchange Man
- Frank Bruno — The Kid
- Will Walker — Fingers
- Sandy Brown Wyeth — Split
趣闻
- 预算：US$400万
- 拍摄地：洛杉矶
The Driver is a 1978 American neo-noir crime thriller film written and directed by Walter Hill, and starring Ryan O'Neal, Bruce Dern and Isabelle Adjani. The film features only unnamed characters, and follows a getaway driver for robberies (O'Neal) whose exceptional talent has prevented him being caught. A detective determined to apprehend him (Dern) promises pardons to a gang if they help catch him in a set-up robbery.
Production
The Driver is the second film Walter Hill wrote and directed after Hard Times (1975), which starred Charles Bronson. Hill and producer Larry Gordon had just finished Hard Times when Gordon suggested to Hill that they make a film about a getaway driver, to which Hill agreed.
Hill says he was interested to see how "pure" a film he could make: a genre film that did not conform itself in conventional, Hollywood ways. He said he wrote it as a "very tight script." "I knew when I was getting ready to do the movie that I was taking a chance", said Hill. "This was not meant to be an everyday action movie.
In the late 1970s, Britain's EMI Films came under the stewardship of Michael Deeley and Barry Spikings. They began co-financing movies shot in Hollywood in association with major US studios that were aimed at the international market, such as Convoy, The Deer Hunter and The Driver. They were interested in financing The Driver provided a suitable star could be found for the lead.
According to Hill, the script was unable to bring in talents for "about a year and a half." The role of the Driver was originally intended for Steve McQueen, who had starred in the Hill-scripted The Getaway (1972). McQueen turned down the role because, as Hill stated, he refused to star in another film that revolved substantially around cars. The studio then went to Bronson, but he was unhappy with Hill.
Several actors were considered for the female lead, including Julie Christie and Charlotte Rampling. Eventually, it went to Isabelle Adjani, who had gained an international reputation with The Story of Adele H (1975). This was Adjani's first Hollywood role; she had previously turned down the chance to star in The Other Side of Midnight (1977), but agreed to make The Driver because she was an admirer of Hard Times. Of Hill, Adjani commented:
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