Vintage Landies in movies

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Derek

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I was watching an advert for the Mail on Sunday and they are doing a Freebie
film tomorrow 'Living Free' which unless my eyes decieve me includes at
least
a 101fc ragtop and a 109 also somebody doing a passable Yoda impersonation
now if there is a rhino chargeing a landy that just about covers everything
Derek


 
Derek wrote:
> I was watching an advert for the Mail on Sunday and they are doing a Freebie
> film tomorrow 'Living Free' which unless my eyes decieve me includes at
> least
> a 101fc ragtop and a 109 also somebody doing a passable Yoda impersonation
> now if there is a rhino chargeing a landy that just about covers everything
> Derek
>
>

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
 


>
> 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

 
Srtgray wrote:
> Derek wrote:
>> I was watching an advert for the Mail on Sunday and they are doing a
>> Freebie film tomorrow 'Living Free' which unless my eyes decieve me
>> includes at least
>> a 101fc ragtop and a 109 also somebody doing a passable Yoda
>> impersonation now if there is a rhino chargeing a landy that just
>> about covers everything Derek
>>
>>
>
> 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...
>

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



> 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

--
Andy

SWB Series 2a ( dressed as a 3) "Bruce"
It's big, it's mean it's really, really green


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


"Dave R" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
>
>>
>> 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
>


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

Steve.
"84 110 V8 Hardtop
"84 110 V8 CSW
Durban

"Srtgray" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Derek wrote:
>> I was watching an advert for the Mail on Sunday and they are doing a
>> Freebie
>> film tomorrow 'Living Free' which unless my eyes decieve me includes at
>> least
>> a 101fc ragtop and a 109 also somebody doing a passable Yoda
>> impersonation
>> now if there is a rhino chargeing a landy that just about covers
>> everything
>> Derek
>
> 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

 
Srtgray said:
Derek wrote:


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...


Anyone spotted any others?

Stuart
Click to expand...

633 squadron has a series 2 in it
if you do a search on landy zone there is a whole **** load of films with landys in them.
 
"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.



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"CraigB" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> "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!

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:
> I was watching an advert for the Mail on Sunday and they are doing a Freebie
> film tomorrow 'Living Free' which unless my eyes decieve me includes at
> least
> a 101fc ragtop and a 109 also somebody doing a passable Yoda impersonation
> now if there is a rhino chargeing a landy that just about covers everything
> Derek
>
>
 
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


Take care
Pantelis
"Srtgray" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Derek wrote:
> > I was watching an advert for the Mail on Sunday and they are doing a
Freebie
> > film tomorrow 'Living Free' which unless my eyes decieve me includes at
> > least
> > a 101fc ragtop and a 109 also somebody doing a passable Yoda
impersonation
> > now if there is a rhino chargeing a landy that just about covers
everything
> > Derek
> >
> >
>
> 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


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

Take care
Pantelis

"Dave R" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
>
> >
> > 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
>


 
Dave R wrote:
>
>>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
>

Nice opposite to Ace Ventura would be Stalker by Tarkovsky (1979). Some
screenshots with SII here:
http://www.landrover.ee/est/galerii/2003/stalker/stalker.htm

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
 

"Srtgray" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Derek wrote:
> > I was watching an advert for the Mail on Sunday and they are doing a
Freebie
> > film tomorrow 'Living Free' which unless my eyes decieve me includes at
> > least
> > a 101fc ragtop and a 109 also somebody doing a passable Yoda
impersonation
> > now if there is a rhino chargeing a landy that just about covers
everything
> > Derek
> >
> >
>
> 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'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.

> 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


 
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"Oily" <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> "Srtgray" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > Derek wrote:
> > > I was watching an advert for the Mail on Sunday and they are doing a
> Freebie
> > > film tomorrow 'Living Free' which unless my eyes decieve me includes at
> > > least
> > > a 101fc ragtop and a 109 also somebody doing a passable Yoda
> impersonation
> > > now if there is a rhino chargeing a landy that just about covers
> everything
> > > Derek
> > >
> > >
> >
> > 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...
> >

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

>
> 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.
>
> > 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?

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.

> >
> > Stuart
>
>

Richard

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On or around Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:06:29 +0100, beamendsltd
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

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

sounds like "The A team"
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In message <[email protected]>
Austin Shackles <[email protected]> wrote:

> On or around Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:06:29 +0100, beamendsltd
> <[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:
>
> >Can't remember the title (unsurprsingly), but produced by The Cliche
> >Film Studio's Inc.
>
> sounds like "The A team"

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

Richard
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On or around Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:34:56 +0100, beamendsltd
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>In message <[email protected]>
> Austin Shackles <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On or around Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:06:29 +0100, beamendsltd
>> <[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:
>>
>> >Can't remember the title (unsurprsingly), but produced by The Cliche
>> >Film Studio's Inc.
>>
>> sounds like "The A team"
>
>That wasn't it - this film had actors in it ;-)
>
>Richard

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.
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from the strawbuilt shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing
horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed."
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In message <[email protected]>
Austin Shackles <[email protected]> wrote:

> On or around Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:34:56 +0100, beamendsltd
> <[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:
>
> >In message <[email protected]>
> > Austin Shackles <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> On or around Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:06:29 +0100, beamendsltd
> >> <[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:
> >>
> >> >Can't remember the title (unsurprsingly), but produced by The Cliche
> >> >Film Studio's Inc.
> >>
> >> sounds like "The A team"
> >
> >That wasn't it - this film had actors in it ;-)
> >
> >Richard
>
> 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-cock 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.

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