While I normally try to avoid uploading movies that have already been uploaded a lot on this website, the new 4K restoration that was released in Britain means all the other uploads are not inferior, which just sits wrong with me, so hopefully this sill fix that. I had to compress this a bit more than I would have liked due to the 16GB upload limit, but it's nothing that is too bad to upload. Here's to enjoying it.<br /><br />Description: The Driver specializes in driving getaway cars for robberies. His exceptional talent has prevented him from being caught yet. After another successful flight from the police a self-assured detective makes it his primary goal to catch the Driver. He promises pardons to a gang if they help to convict him in a set-up robbery. The Driver seeks help from The Player to mislead the detective.<br /><br />The Driver is a 1978 American neo-noir crime thriller film written and directed by Walter Hill. It stars Ryan O'Neal, Bruce Dern, and Isabelle Adjani. 20th Century Fox released The Driver on 28 July 1978. The film was a box office disappointment in the United States but performed better overseas. Despite initial negative reviews it has become one of Hill's most popular films, and received more positive critical reception in later years. Quentin Tarantino, Nicolas Winding Refn, and Edgar Wright have cited The Driver as a major influence.<br /><br />The film featured several car chase sequences. Hill says he felt the first chase was "kind of a failure" because it "was meant to lead up to a much more spectacular finish" but he was unable to film it properly: it was done on the last night of shooting and an electrician fell off the roof and was badly injured; Hill could not get all the shots he wanted and had to "cobble together" the end result. However, he felt the sequence with the Mercedes 250 S in the garage and the final chase were "as fully realized as I could get them to be." Hill wanted to film chase scenes at night, which he felt had not been done many times in films before. In order to expedite this, Hill shot the dramatic scenes first during the day, then the chase scenes at night. Hill said the night shooting was draining: "It's like you're swimming underwater or hypnotized. And I'm a person that stays up late and wakes up early. But staying up night after night after night really threw me out. You make decisions you cannot explain. You just intuit."<br /><br />CAST:<br /><br />Ryan O'Neal as The Driver<br />Bruce Dern as The Detective<br />Isabelle Adjani as The Player<br />Ronee Blakley as The Connection<br />Matt Clark as Red Plainclothesman<br />Felice Orlandi as Gold Plainclothesman<br />Joseph Walsh as Glasses<br />Rudy Ramos as Teeth<br />Denny Macko as Exchange Man<br />Frank Bruno as The Kid<br />Will Walker as Fingers<br />Sandy Brown Wyeth as Split<br />Tara King as Frizzy<br />Richard Carey as Floorman<br />Fidel Corona as Card Player<br />Victor Gilmour as Boardman<br />Nick Dimitri as Blue Mask<br />Bob Minor as Green Mask<br /><br />CREW:<br /><br />DIRECTOR<br />Walter Hill<br /><br />PRODUCER<br />Lawrence Gordon<br /><br />WRITER<br />Walter Hill<br /><br />EDITORS<br />Tina Hirsch and Robert K. Lambert<br /><br />CINEMATOGRAPHY<br />Philip H. Lathrop<br /><br />PRODUCTION DESIGN<br />Harry Horner<br /><br />ART DIRECTION<br />David M. Haber<br /><br />SET DECORATION<br />Darrell Silvera and Harry Horner<br /><br />COMPOSER<br />Michael Small<br /><br />SOUND<br />Theodore Soderberg, Michael Hilkene, Paul Wells, John Kline, William Hartman, Richard Sperber and Douglas O. Williams<br /><br />COSTUMES<br />Jack Bear, Robert Cornwall and Jennifer L. Parsons