Great Foot Chase Scenes?

[barsoomcore]

Okay, so you already know about Hot Pursuit: The Definitive d20 Guide to Chases, and you've already bought it, devoured it, loved every inch of it. And of course you want more. Especially and particularly, you want more material on foot chases. When folks are RUNNING for their lives, things are little different than when they're DRIVING for their lives.

Well, more material is coming. Foot chases are going to get a big ol' treatment with plenty of fun stuff. I'm muchly inspired and very excited about this. But I'm looking for more inspiration. You can never have too much inspiration.

Having seen Ong Bak, and being a mad Jackie Chan devotee, I've got plenty already, but I'm sure ENWorld readers can provide me with more. So here's my question:

What are the great foot chase scenes from cinema? Scenes where someone's running, somebody else is running, and they're running after some other guy, or something.

Great foot chases. Where are they, and what makes them great?

Lay it on me.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

So the T-1000 chasing down the car on foot doesn't count...?

 

[Zog]

Run Lola run -- not a chase scene per se, only a race against time.

Throw me the idol, I'll throw you the whip" - people being chased by giant boulders is always cool

For a different take on things: the Marx Brothers The Big Store ends with a frantic chase/game of keep away.

Crouching tiger hidden dragon -- race across rooftops

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

I seem to recall a good foot chase in "Point Break."

 

[Klaus]

Shaft (the Samuel L. Jackson one. "Don't make me run after you!")

Operation France (y'know, Gene Hackman as Popeye Doyle... I can't recall if the chase is in 1 or 2)

 

[barsoomcore]

Hey, great stuff right out of the gate! Awesome!

I'll be hitting the video store tonight, that's for sure.

Thanks, folks. Keep 'em coming!

 

[Dagger75]

Bourne Supremacy, when Jason is escaping out of the hotel. That rocked.

 

[jonesy]

I'm going to come out of the left field and say Detroit 9000.

Does the Heat bank heist count?

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

The Beastie Boys "Sabatage" video

 

[Krieg]

Lethal Weapon - Riggs (Mel Gibson) runs down a car.

In the Line of Fire - Clint Eastwood chases John Malkovich across the rooftops.

Dirty Harry - Harry chases Scorpio through the quarry.

Seven - Chasing John Doe.

Last of the Mohicans - The final chase.

Heat - The heist goes bad.

Enemy of the State - Real time Satellite imagery of a footchase.

North by Northwest - Cary Grant & the cropduster.

Pretty much anything done by Buster Keaton.

Operation France (y'know, Gene Hackman as Popeye Doyle... I can't recall if the chase is in 1 or 2)

That would be The French Connection for all of us Americans.

Klaus nailed it though, Popeye tailing the Frenchman through New York is flawless.