Best Car Movies/Videos

[LGAFF]

Wondering your thoughts on the best car movies or videos:

-Cannonball run: Cheesy music and theme but opening video is a real Lambo at speed using the Lambo exhaust for sound. Pretty sweet

-Gone in 60 Seconds: Worth it for the ferrari Shots

-Rides/Raging Bull: Trip through the LAmbo factory as the car is built, great compliment is the video that made me want a fast car, the 60 minutes video segement on Lambo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OwCR8AP2G0

Mark 1985 as the only time I enjoyed watching 60 minutes with my parents. 150mph test drives on 2 lane roads.

I'll leave it at that and wait for your favorites!

LGAFF
92 ZR1

[XfireZ51]

Bullit was the start of great car pics. Vanishing Point, Grand Prix and LeMans. And the guys that filmed Miami Vice must have had a real love of cars because they knew exactly how to do it and the efffects of light/dark plus the music.

[WB9MCW]

Hot Rods to Hell is a 1967 suspense film, originally intended for television but released in theaters instead after its producers considered it too intense for TV viewers. It is one of many exploitation-type films from noted producer Sam Katzman, whose work is generally regarded as of higher quality than are most such films. Film buffs of today, some of whom have described the film for the Internet Movie Database, are sharply divided in their opinions of this film.

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Traveling salesman Tom Phillips (Dana Andrews) is driving home to Boston, Massachusetts for Christmas when he encounters a drunken driver on a rain-streaked road. He cannot avoid a collision, and is hospitalized with spinal damage. Since he cannot be a traveling salesman anymore, his brother arranges for Tom to buy a remote motel in the desert town of Mayville, California. Tom is reluctant, since he has never been an innkeeper before--but in the end he decides that he must travel in order to get as far away from the site of his accident as possible, as soon as possible.

So Tom sets out for California with his wife, teen-aged daughter, and son. But when they reach the desert they are accosted by a pair of drag racers and a "party girl" in a modified, high-performance 1958 Chevrolet Corvette who jokingly force them to swerve and avoid a collision.

This is only the first of a series of escalating encounters with the local youth. Teenaged children of relatively well-off local farmers, they are apparently given "everything they want" but are still bored and are locked in a never-ending desire for "kicks" in which they will never be satisfied. The adults, including the owner of a local filling station, are fed-up with them. One of these adults, however, turns out to own the very motel that Tom Phillips has bought--and he is selling out after having let the wayward youth use his motel as an illicit trysting place for years.

When Tom tells the filling-station owner that he has "just bought himself a motel," one of the kids, named Ernie (Gene Kirkwood), overhears. Soon after, he tells his friend Duke (Paul Bertoya), who is the driver of the Corvette. Duke organizes a campaign of harassment against Tom and chases the hapless family all the way to the motel.

Matters come to a dangerous head when Tom's daughter (Laurie Mock), fascinated by Duke, goes to see him in the motel bar and grill, called the "Arena." Duke's current girlfriend Gloria (Mimsy Farmer), in a jealous rage, informs Tom, who tries to strangle Duke--but his back goes out and he must desist. He then informs the former motel owner (George Ives) that he will not go through with the sale. This causes a confrontation between the former owner and the youths, which ends when the owner tells Duke and Ernie that Tom is going to the next town to "bring the police down on this place."

Duke and Ernie resolve never to let Tom Phillips reach that town--and so, as the family tries to escape, they engage them in a deadly game of "chicken." This game ends only when Tom outwits the teenagers by parking his car on a narrow bridge, with the headlights on, evacuating him and his family to a safe spot twenty yards off the road. Faced with an unmoving object, Duke turns "chicken" himself, running his car off the edge of the bridge--after which he and Ernie, bruised, battered, and with scraped knees, swear that they will never give Tom any trouble. Tom agrees not to turn them in to the police--but tells them that he will go back to his motel and run it properly from now on.

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This film was originally intended for television release, and was in fact shot in the 4:3 "full-screen" aspect ratio that persisted on television for decades even after film had long since gone to wide-screen aspect ratios of 1.65:1, 2:1, or even 2.25:1. When the project was finished, however, the producers deemed it too intense for television and released it to theaters (including drive-in theaters) instead, with a runtime of 92 minutes.

Eventually, ABC-TV bought the broadcast rights and exhibited the film on their ABC Sunday Night Movie series in 1968. Unaccountably, they used a print having a runtime of 100 minutes. When Turner Classic Movies bought the rights to MGM's extensive film library, they acquired this 100-minute print. This is the print shown on the infrequent occasions when they exhibit this film to their viewers.

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Filmed largely near the Southern California desert town Lake Los Angeles and Wilsona Gardens, east of Palmdale, California. Specific locations include "Charlie's Last Chance" gas station 34°40′15.27″N, 117°49′37.88″W; 150th Street E, where a majority of chase scenes were filmed, 34°38′31.45″N, 117°51′46.25″W; and the exact location of the narrow bridge crash at the end of the film (the bridge was actually constructed by the film crew) 34°38′43.59″N, 117°51′46.58″W.

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This film received nearly universal scorn from critics but had a profitable run, probably as much because of its very modest budget as because of any artistic merit that the film might have had. It received no major award nominations.


2007 DVD Release

Hot Rods to Hell premiered on DVD June 26, 2007 from Warner Brothers Home Video. This DVD release has been modified from the original 4:3 (1.33:1) aspect ratio to a widescreen format of 16:9 (approximately 1.85:1). This was done by both cropping the top and bottom of the frame, however, more information on the sides is viewable from the original 4:3 television presentation as well.

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[WB9MCW]

Chevrolet Corvette in movies and TV series - Page 1/20

http://www.imcdb.org/vehicles_make-C...-Corvette.html

[evl_twn]

Mad Max

Vanishing Point

Two Lane Blacktop

Christine

Best movie bar none...... Le Mans with Steve McQueen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPjhb3D587Q

[Kevin]

i think there is a movie out with a zr-1 in it...can't remember what it's called though

[flyin ryan]

American Graffiti
Two Lane Blacktop
Grand Prix

[LGAFF]

Could they do a LeMans remake and do it justice?

LGAFF
92 ZR1
#234

[LGAFF]

Although not a car movie, first part of The Fastest Indian is also great......story of an Burt Munroe from New Zealand and his quest to run his 1920 Indian Scout at Bonneville.

LGAFF
92 ZR1
#234