Most of them were what came to be called "chase films".

Zhang called it "a purely commercial gun chase film".

Chase films as antic as this have a way of wearing out their welcome.

Although ostensibly an historical thriller, the film also has the characteristics of film noir in style, and numerous elements of chase films.

Amongst Haggar's productions of 1903 was his crime chase film Desperate Poaching Affray.

It gave rise to a number of other chase films centred on animals, including Lewin Fitzhamon's later film Dumb Sagacity.

Most critics generally believed the movie was a bland rip-off of the popular Chevy Chase film, National Lampoon's Vacation.

The Sopranos was produced by HBO, Chase Films, and Brad Grey Television.

A production of HBO Original Programming, Brad Grey Television and Chase Films.

Hatley wrote many of the musical cues appearing in the Our Gang, Laurel and Hardy, and Charley Chase films.

Smokey Bites the Dust is a 1981 car chase film from New World Pictures directed by Charles B. Griffith.

In 1978, Walter Hill wrote and directed The Driver, a chase film as might have been imagined by Jean-Pierre Melville in an especially abstract mood.

Hunted is a crime drama in the form of a chase film, starring Dirk Bogarde, and written by Jack Whittingham and Michael McCarthy.

Desperate Poaching Affray (known in the United States as The Poachers) is a 1903 British chase film by William Haggar.

Andrew Davis's chase film does a convincing job of compressing the television series, with Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones as, respectively, the mouse and cat.

So, when the driver, who'd clearly seen too many high-speed chase films, took off, I was thrown against the doors and ended up with a lump on my head the size of an egg.

Professor Richard Myles (Fred MacMurray) and his bride, Frances (Joan Crawford), rev up a Paris honeymoon into a taut, entertaining chase film.

Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry is a cult 1974 car chase film starring Peter Fonda, Susan George, Adam Roarke, and Vic Morrow.

Howe's biographer, Charles Musser, summised that Howe showed the film with its 'sensationalistic violence' because as 'one of the cinema's first chase films it proved an irresistible choice.'

Back at the hotel, wrapped up in bedclothes with a bottle of champagne open on the bedside table, we watch a Chevy Chase film dubbed into German on the flatscreen TV.

In the 1983 Chevy Chase film Deal of the Century, Gregory Hines' character "Ray Kasternak" piloted an "F-19" in a dogfight against an autonomous drone fighter.

In 1974, Roarke appeared in the financially successful car chase film Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry, with Fonda and Susan George, a role which showcased his range of acting skill.

In maybe the lamest chase film of 1996, a black convict named Piper (Laurence Fishburne) and a boyish white prisoner named Dodge (Stephen Baldwin) break away from a Georgia chain gang.

The chase films swept away by this development may have been repetitive but they offered an excitement that no one can have secured from the sight of London stage actors running through potted silent versions of Shakespeare.

He appeared in two car chase films starring Burt Reynolds and directed by Hal Needham in cameo roles: Smokey and the Bandit II and The Cannonball Run.