# Lee Majors in "The Last Chase". what a hoot!

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**Created:** [February 18, 2023, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lee-majors-in-the-last-chase-what-a-hoot/980000 "2023-02-18T18:16:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2023, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lee-majors-in-the-last-chase-what-a-hoot/980000/1 "2023-02-18T18:16:16Z")

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This movie was playing this afternoon but the cable menu listed another program. Majors is driving a Porsche 917 on the street, Heck, in the woods! Burgess Meredith is chasing him down in an ancient F86 fighter from the early 1950s. I was able to track the title down because, well, there aren’t that many movies with Majors, Meredith and a Can-am car.

The movie is very cheaply filmed. It’s the kind of movie where many of the conversations between actors are filmed separately, one facing right the other facing left, and they are never shown together. It is supposed to take place in 2011 (Uh,oh!) when all cars, boats and planes have all been banned. Majors has a boat also, bad boy.

I wish I knew airplanes better as there are several old fighters in abandoned hangars.

> **[The Last Chase](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Chase)**
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> The Last Chase is a 1981 Canadian-American dystopian science fiction film directed by Martyn Burke who was also the producer on the film, produced for Argosy Films. The film stars Lee Majors, Chris Makepeace and Burgess Meredith in a futuristic scenario about a former racing driver who reassembles his old Porsche car and drives to California in a world where cars and motor vehicles of all kinds have been outlawed by the authorities. .mw-parser-output .toclimit-2 .toclevel-1 ul,.mw-parser-outpu In...

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If you like that, you might enjoy [this early MST3K](https://youtu.be/tMsFYPmJidg) featuring the movie.

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I’d forgotten all about that movie. Thanks

Can you help me forget it again?

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**Post date:** [February 18, 2023, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lee-majors-in-the-last-chase-what-a-hoot/980000/4 "2023-02-18T18:58:02Z")

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Is it as good as **this movie?** 😏

> **[The Norseman (1978) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078007/)**
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> The Norseman: Directed by Charles B. Pierce. With Lee Majors, Cornel Wilde, Mel Ferrer, Jack Elam. An eleventh century Viking Prince sails to America to find his father, who on a previous voyage had been captured by Indians.

“There are many vines here. I shall name this land Vineland.”\*

\*To the best of my recollection.