Vintage Landies in movies

The one's that get me are movies set in WW2 (and filmed late 50s/early

60s) with Land-Rovers in them! Can't think of any titles off hand...

I spotted in Roxane (Steve Martin movie based on Cyrano de Bergerac) that Steve Martin's character, a Fire chief in Colorado, has a SIII SWB (not driven in the movie, just sitting in the car port).

Anyone spotted any others?

Stuart

I seem to remember one of the "Ace Ventura - Pet detective" films with rubber faced Jim Carey in it driving a SWB series 2, rolls it over and over and over up into the air and then lands perfectly into a parking space, right way up, amongst a line of other pristine series twos.

Can't think of any others off the top off my head - it is late!

Dave

Ice cold in alex, more or less the last scene a series 1 parked up err 10 years before they were made

Charton Heston drove an old LWB Series in some crappy movie about a disease in California - 'Omega Man' ISTR.

Steve. "84 110 V8 Hardt>> I was watching an advert for the Mail on Sunday and they are doing a >> Freebie

Cliffhanger Silverster drives a Series 1 (i think) LWB at the begining after dropping people off cliffs.

"The Gods Must Be Crazy" is the first one that springs to my mind ...the old Series with the PTO winch that winched itself up into the tree (remember that scene)?

I sure couldn't get my old SIII to run very well on any sort of angle over about 40-50 odd degrees - so I'm darned how they got that one to idle it's way up into the tree ...vertically!

-Craig.

Excellent old comedy that one, especially where he tried to chock it with a rock to get through the gate due to no handbrake! Has me in stitches even now when I think of it. P.S. It was an electric winch, a very early Ramsey DCY200. How do I know? I have one on my 110! Bloody bulletproof winch! Badger.

Four weddings and a funeral, a series III SWB I think.

Regards, Hans

Derek schreef:

Cliffhanger with Sylvester Stallone. His car was a series 109 Station Wagon (was it a 2A or a 3 I do not remember)

Also on a movie with Jim Carrey, where he was a private investigator specialised on pets there was a scene where an elephant (IIRC) destroyed two or three series Landies. He was also driving one of them before they got wrecked.

Another one was a South African movie, "Gods must be Crazy" where they were using a series 109 pickup.

Also the 1990's movie "Wolf" with Michelle Pfiefer and Jack Nicholson (I think I am spelling the name wrong) where he was driving a Range Rover Classic.

Another movie with Julia Roberts and Meg Ryan's ex-husband (where they were supposed to be a couple and he was cheating on her) she is driving a Discovery S2 V8 (no diesels in the States eh???) But this is not a vintage Landy.

Take care Pantelis

impersonation

That was the one. But I seem to remember something bad happening to all of them afterwards. Hope I am wrong !!!!

Take care Pantelis

Nice opposite to Ace Ventura would be Stalker by Tarkovsky (1979). Some screenshots with SII here:

Gods Must Be Crazy (1980) as well, but it was SIII i guess, so pretty much current for those days. Now it's more vintage together with the movie.

Both films are worth watching btw ;)

Cheers, Kalev

impersonation

I've seen one a couple of times where there are three or four soldiers going through the desert in a Series 1 and in the next shot they are in a Jeep and then next shot back in the Landrover again later. Can't remember what it was called though.

Martin.

There's a Series I in the background in one scene in The Battle Of Britain, and the same in 633 Squadron.

There's a film that starts off with a long scene involving a large truck following a Series II along a road into a haulage yard somewhere in the States. Unfortunately the next scene is a truck ramming the Series, and the film went downhill in all respects thereafter (gum chewing hero dodges bullets from 300 bad guys with machine guns, killing most of then with the worlds most accurate piston with a limitless supply of bulllets, using a plank that wouldn't stop moderate stone never mind a butllet for cover, gets girl, brings down corrupt mayor, makes weepy-eyed speech in front of US flag etc etc).

Can't remember the title (unsurprsingly), but produced by The Cliche Film Studio's Inc.

Richard

On or around Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:06:29 +0100, beamendsltd enlightened us thusly:

sounds like "The A team"

That wasn't it - this film had actors in it ;-)

Richard

On or around Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:34:56 +0100, beamendsltd enlightened us thusly:

the bit about inexhaustible ammo was what I meant. I've seen a bit on the A team where the bloke leans out of the cab of a moving vehicle with what's plainly a 6-shot revolver and fires 10 round in succession from it, without reloading. clever, that.

Ah yes - the infamous Holywood Six Shooter, never requires re-loading, an on the rare occasion it does (so the owner can make lots of really macho fake metallic clicks and re-c*ck the weapon at least 10 times) it's owner is apparently capable of carrying several hundredweight of bullets/clips in their self-cleaning[1] jacket pocket.

Richard

[1]as particularly featured in the Die Hard films.

Callan 1974 (a film version of the TV series) featured an early Range Rover.

It's not a movie but...

nigelH