“In retrospect, I was wrong to shoot it that way, but there was no other way to get it done.” That’s how director Billy Friedkin last week summed up his famously hair-raising chase scene in the ...

It’s the heart-stopping moment when a bashed-in Pontiac LeMans hurtles beneath NYC’s elevated subway at 90 miles an hour, dodging traffic and pedestrians in a wild race to keep up with a hijacked N ...

He made his name with two of the biggest box-office hits of the 1970s. But despite some later successes, he never regained his early acclaim. By William Grimes William Friedkin, a filmmaker whose ...